Improving English as a foreign language writing in elementary schools using

mobile devices in familiar situational contexts

Prof. Dr. Wu-Yuin Hwang, NCU
(Resti Utami)

Hwang (2013) about improve english as a foreign language writing in

elementary schools using mobile devices in familiar situational context. This
research focus on the relation between Situated English Learning Writing System
and the learner perception of intention to use. Besides, whether the intention to use
has a relationship with the real usage and wniting performance is also considered.
According to the real usage of Situated English Learning Writing System, the
relation between learning achievement and total number of writing total number of
sentences, the amount of uselessness comment, the amount of encouragement
comment, the amount of usefulness comment and the amount of using scaffolding
for writing task are considered. The effect of four dimensions: 1) Reasoning, 2)
Communication, 3) Organization and, 4) Convention on learning achievement.
The conclusion this part, 1) The learning achievement of experiment group
is better than control group. Using the system In learning activities can effectively
help the learning achievement on Reasoning, Communication and Organization, 2)
The predictability of activity playfulness effect on intention to use. Most students
thought that the designed activities were playful and they were interested in situated
learning, 3) Communication could anticipate writing outcomes, the students think
that it is helpful for communication to use more adjectives, conjunctions and
sentences, 4) The scaffolding of the proposed system satisfied the requirement of
some students such as memorizing vocabularies in familiar contexts.