Title:	LEVERAGING SMARTPHONE AFFORDANCES FOR EFL EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING
Author(s):	Peter Ilic
ISBN:	978-989-8704-38-2
Editors:	Piet Kommers, Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2022
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Mobile Learning, Emergency Remote Teaching, Curriculum Design, Biplot Analysis, Collaborative Learning, ICT, EFL
First Page:	203
Last Page:	209
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This study will benefit educators, curriculum developers, and researchers interested in the affordance of mobile ICT for education and especially how smartphones can be leveraged to provide better online learning outcomes for emergency remote teaching. The current global health concerns have forced many educators to rapidly adapt learning materials intended for in-class use to online activities. This research developed from this sudden need to understand how ICT could be efficiently leveraged to create an emergency remote teaching off-site learning environment for EFL learners in Japan. A questionnaire was employed to better understand the learners' degree of smartphone adoption in relation to their EFL collaborative educational activities. The goal was to use an exploratory data analysis technique (biplots) to gain a better insight into the current affordances that the students feel the smartphone offers. This information could then inform the migration of educational materials. The results indicate that during collaborative learning activities, for this sample population, communicating through email/texting was by far the most widespread use of the smartphone. This is followed by the less popular voice communications and internet use. In addition, the results support the idea that students perceive the smartphone as an anytime and anywhere device in the sense that it is carried by them throughout the day. Finally, in the context of the study, students used the smartphone as an electronic dictionary regularly and as an internet information gathering tool.
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