EFL Students’ Perceptions of Discussion-based Activities by Using Mobile Phone Technology

Journal of Language and Translation

دوره 13، شماره 4، بهمن 2023، صفحه 191-209   

نوع مقاله: Research Articles

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/ttlt.2023.707372

نویسندگان

Tahereh Khezrab؛ Reza Raissi^* ؛ Neda Hedayat

Department of English Language, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, people helped each other to change conditions in their
social lives to be alive. During these periods, the educational system followed some ways to change
the pedagogical methods to present instructional assistance with the use of some mobile devices. Concerning
this necessity, the priority of launching online education was high on the agenda in Iran and
throughout the world. Regarding this condition, the most available device for every student to receive
this type of instruction was a mobile phone set. Thus, the present study was to find the Iranian EFL
university students' perceptions of the use of mobile phone technologies for online discussion-based
activities. In this qualitative study, the researchers used convenience sampling, and out of 99 Law
students from two Iranian universities, 10 students were selected as participants. To obtain the
required data, semi-structured interviews were held with participants to find the objective of this
study. Qualitative results for semi-structured interviews demonstrated that Islamic Azad University
students reflected their interest in conducting comparative or discussion-based translation activities to
develop reading comprehension skills of legal texts based on cooperative and collaborative reading
strategies in online discussion classes. The findings of the study can be useful for administrative
executives in the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to revise their curriculum, university
teachers to use the results of the study in their syllabuses and EFL university students in different
fields of study, particularly Law students, to use the findings in their learning procedure based on
online discussion-based instruction and use of mobile phone technologies 

کلیدواژه‌ها

EFL students’ perceptions؛ Mobile phone technologies؛ Online discussion-based activities؛ Reading strategies؛ Translation activities

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