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MOBILE PHONES AS LEARNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS IN THE ESP CLASSROOM …

- - - - teachers should not use the computer/mobile phone simply for its own sake.
    - - The technology should be used to address the learners‟ needs and be useful for a variety of instructional purposes
    - - Computers are often said to play at least three roles in the classroom: tutor, teacher, and tool (Levy, 1997). The computer as tutor presents drills and practice, usually with some explanatory rules.The most useful way to look at technology is as a tool that supports learning in a wide variety of ways
    - - Effective means that students learn language better or faster using the technology than they would have using the tools that would ordinarily be available.
    - - Efficient indicates that technology accomplishes learning goals with less time and work for teachers and learners.
- - - - Digital Natives have “spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age.”
    - - foreigners in the digital lands of the Net Generation
- - - - Computer and internet technologies have been frequently used in language learning contexts to enhance student-centeredness, students‟ engagement, interaction, and collaboration (Nah, 2008).
        
        Yamada et al. (2011) tested the effectiveness of learning materials through mobile phones and the findings revealed that the use of mobile learning materials increased students‟ listening comprehension and motivation to learn.