A study on factors influencing Chinese undergraduate EFL learners' self-directed use of mobile English learning resources.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-10 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1189055

Fengdan Shen, Linling Liang, Yufang Feng

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This study aimed to examine the factors that potentially impact the self-directed use of mobile English learning resources (MELR). The participants were 206 Chinese undergraduate EFL learners at Yangzhou University in Mainland China. Applying and modifying the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), this study involved six constructs, including students’ performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, perceived playfulness, and behavioral intention to use MELR. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was adopted to analyze the data collected from the questionnaire. The findings showed that facilitating conditions acted as the most significant predictor of behavioral intention to adopt MELR, followed by effort expectancy, perceived playfulness, and performance expectancy. However, social influence did not have significant effects on students’ use of MELR. Pedagogical implications for teachers and students were also presented in the end.

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影响中国大学生自主使用移动英语学习资源的因素研究。

本研究旨在探讨可能影响移动英语学习资源自主使用的因素。参与者是来自中国大陆扬州大学的206名中国大学生。本研究应用并修改了技术接受与使用统一理论（UTAUT），涉及六个结构，包括学生的表现预期、努力预期、社会影响、便利条件、感知游戏性和使用MELR的行为意图。采用结构方程建模（SEM）技术对问卷数据进行分析。研究结果表明，促进条件是采用MELR的行为意向的最重要预测因素，其次是努力预期、感知游戏性和表现预期。然而，社会影响对学生使用MELR没有显著影响。最后还介绍了对教师和学生的教育意义。

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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5.30

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13.20%

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7396

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14 weeks

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