<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper presents research results from the field of mobile-assisted instruction of English for specific purposes for technical and engineering students. The research was structured in three phases: (1) Questionnaire 1 was applied to detect what sources of information students use in higher education, what types of mobile devices they own, what purposes they use them for, (2) how the process of instruction, particularly students´ autonomous work supported by mobile devices ran, (3) students´ feedback was collected by Questionnaire 2 to evaluate the mobile-assisted learning and provide proposals for future exploitation of mobile devices in higher technical language education. The results show students are sufficiently equipped with mobile technologies and exploit them for various purposes, including education and ESP. At the end, examples of helpful mobile applications are presented.</p></abstract>

This paper presents research results from the field of mobile-assisted instruction of English for specific purposes for technical and engineering students. The research was structured in three phases: (1) Questionnaire 1 was applied to detect what sources of information students use in higher education, what types of mobile devices they own, what purposes they use them for, (2) how the process of instruction, particularly students´ autonomous work supported by mobile devices ran, (3) students´ feedback was collected by Questionnaire 2 to evaluate the mobile-assisted learning and provide proposals for future exploitation of mobile devices in higher technical language education. The results show students are sufficiently equipped with mobile technologies and exploit them for various purposes, including education and ESP. At the end, examples of helpful mobile applications are presented.

Mobile-assisted ESP learning in technical education

University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 50003 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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This paper presents research results from the field of mobile-assisted instruction of English for specific purposes for technical and engineering students. The...

Mobile-assisted ESP learning in technical education

Published Online: Oct 15, 2015

Page range: 1 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0016

Keywords
mobile learning, m-learning, mobile application, ESP, technical education

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mobile-assisted ESP learning in technical education

Published Online: Oct 15, 2015

Page range: 1 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0016

Keywordsmobile learning, m-learning, mobile application, ESP, technical education

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
mobile learning, m-learning, mobile application, ESP, technical education