Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia

Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia

With the proliferation of mobile technologies nowadays, English language educators and instructors globally are increasingly looking into the potential of mobile learning as pedagogical practice to teach the language, including as a tool to test students’ grammatical ability. However, users’ perce...

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Main Authors: Malini Ganapathy, Munir Shuib, Siti Norbaya Azizan
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2016
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spelling ukm-97132016-12-14T06:50:37Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9713/ Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia Malini Ganapathy, Munir Shuib, Siti Norbaya Azizan, With the proliferation of mobile technologies nowadays, English language educators and instructors globally are increasingly looking into the potential of mobile learning as pedagogical practice to teach the language, including as a tool to test students’ grammatical ability. However, users’ perception on the usability of such advanced approach in education is critical to a successful mobile learning implementation. While there is a considerable enthusiasm for incorporating mobile technologies in English language education, there is a paucity of research evidence about whether mobile-based test is perceived as usable by English language students in Malaysia. The purpose of this paper is to examine Malaysian English as a Second Language (ESL) students’ perception on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test; namely MyGrammarTest (MyGraTe) App. The App was developed by a mobile learning research team from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) who studied the development of an intelligent mobile learning tool that can map grammar learning content to their learning style preferences. Upon successful development, the MyGraTe App prototype was piloted on a group of undergraduate students who undertook ESL courses in USM. Then, a questionnaire consisting of items adapted from the System Usability Scale (SUS) by Brooke (1986) was distributed to respondents to gain input on the perceived usability of the App. Findings from this study provide several important insights on the usability of mobile applications as learning support tools for English language learning, specifically in testing students’ grammatical ability. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9713/1/10176-33906-1-PB.pdf Malini Ganapathy, and Munir Shuib, and Siti Norbaya Azizan, (2016) Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 22 (1). pp. 127-140. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l
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description With the proliferation of mobile technologies nowadays, English language educators and instructors globally are increasingly looking into the potential of mobile learning as pedagogical practice to teach the language, including as a tool to test students’ grammatical ability. However, users’ perception on the usability of such advanced approach in education is critical to a successful mobile learning implementation. While there is a considerable enthusiasm for incorporating mobile technologies in English language education, there is a paucity of research evidence about whether mobile-based test is perceived as usable by English language students in Malaysia. The purpose of this paper is to examine Malaysian English as a Second Language (ESL) students’ perception on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test; namely MyGrammarTest (MyGraTe) App. The App was developed by a mobile learning research team from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) who studied the development of an intelligent mobile learning tool that can map grammar learning content to their learning style preferences. Upon successful development, the MyGraTe App prototype was piloted on a group of undergraduate students who undertook ESL courses in USM. Then, a questionnaire consisting of items adapted from the System Usability Scale (SUS) by Brooke (1986) was distributed to respondents to gain input on the perceived usability of the App. Findings from this study provide several important insights on the usability of mobile applications as learning support tools for English language learning, specifically in testing students’ grammatical ability.
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author Malini Ganapathy,
Munir Shuib,
Siti Norbaya Azizan,
spellingShingle Malini Ganapathy,
Munir Shuib,
Siti Norbaya Azizan,
Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia
author_facet Malini Ganapathy,
Munir Shuib,
Siti Norbaya Azizan,
author_sort Malini Ganapathy,
title Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_short Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_full Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_fullStr Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Malaysian ESL students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of ESL undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_sort malaysian esl students’ perceptions on the usability of a mobile application for grammar test: a case study of esl undergraduates in universiti sains malaysia
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2016
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