The use of Mobile Phones for Learning English in Armenian High Schools and Universities: A Survey Study

Abstract

Mobile assisted language learning is novice and not developed in Armenia, so the currentsurveystudy can serve as a starting point to find out whether MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning, particularly the use of mobile phones isfeasible forteaching and learning English in Armenian high schools and universitiesand to what extent mobile phones are currently being used forteaching and learning English in Armenia.Mobile phones are considered to help learners and teachers in making language learning faster, easier and more engaging, and help creating an optimal language-learning environment. The use of mobile devices in language learning helps coordinate and enhance learning. Mobile phones as M-learning devices are very common and popular. Mobile phones are making our lives easier and it’s hard to imagine life without mobile phones. Mobile phones have becomeso advanced and smart that they actually perform almost the same functions and features as personal computers. The current survey study has been conducted using quantitative research methodology. The participants werepupils/students and teachers/instructors.The data of the questionnaires wereanalyzed quantitatively. Students’ answers to the 0/1/2/3 and 0/1/2/ scale questionnaires were entered into the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS 16.0)and Microsoft office Excel 2007. The collected data was analyzed descriptively and inferentially, and the results were as follows: there is not significance between the means among the groups of schools and universities or the mean of data for university is higher than in school case.