Teachers’ Attitudes and Perspectives toward Mobile Learning Implementation in Secondary Schools in Saudi Arabia (Published)
This paper aims to study teachers’ attitudes and perspectives toward mobile learning implementation in secondary schools in Saudi Arabia. The study consists of 34 English language teachers, all from Saudi Arabia. The study depends on the descriptive approach to evaluate English language teachers’ attitudes, and perspectives toward using smart phones in pedagogical processes. The results asserts that Saudi English language teachers have positive attitudes and perspectives toward using smart phones in pedagogical process with total mean of (3.04) out of 4. Furthermore, the findings show that the total mean of using or developing mobile learning applications is equal to (2.73) which show that the majority of Saudi English language teachers perceived themselves as undecided or proficient and more close to proficient concerning their ability to use smart phones and mobile applications for language teaching.
Keywords: Mobile Learning, Saudi Arabia, Secondary Schools, Teachers' Attitudes
The Impact of Instructional Technologies in Teaching English in Sudanese Secondary Schools in Khartoum State (Published)
This study aims at searching for the trends of the teachers of English Language towards using the educational technologies in secondary schools in Khartoum state and the impact of that upon the students learning. The sample of study is secondary schools teacher and directors of English language in Khartoum state .and the tool of collection data is questionnaire ,in addition the interview for directors of the English language. The researchers has noticed the decline of the standard of the students at English language, though the lack of attention of using education technology in teaching English language and the negative trends of English language teachers might be one of the reasons of decline
Keywords: Instructional Technologies, Secondary Schools, Teachers of English Language