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Record W4391169609 · doi:10.5430/wjel.v14n2p339

Empirical Study on the Influence of Mobile Apps on Improving English Speaking Skills in School Students

2024· article· en· W4391169609 on OpenAlex
Kewin Anten Raj, Anu Baisel

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Journal of English Language · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTechnology-Enhanced Education Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceMobile appsMathematics educationEmpirical researchPsychologyWorld Wide WebStatisticsMathematics

Abstract

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Since technology provides adaptable, learner-centered opportunities for language acquisition, smartphones, and mobile applications have become indispensable in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, especially in higher education. Research indicates that both teachers and students view mobile learning as an effective tool for learning foreign languages and that mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has made significant strides in offering resources and language exercises that can be completed at any time and place. The objective of this empirical study is to evaluate how mobile apps affect EFL students' English-speaking abilities and look into the relationship between skill development and app usage frequency. Additionally, it looks for potential moderating and mediating factors that affect how well mobile applications improve English speaking, illuminating the complex dynamics present in the EFL learning environment. The study used a concurrent embedded design and collected data on students' attitudes and views of smartphone English language learning apps (ELLA) through the use of a 26-item questionnaire. The questionnaire had a good degree of internal consistency with a score of 0.95 following data analysis, and t-tests were used to evaluate significant differences between groups. The data were gathered using a Likert scale. The results show that using mobile apps improves English-speaking abilities moderately but consistently, regardless of socioeconomic status. An important factor in this relationship is self-motivation. With beneficial ramifications for educators and legislators, the study highlights the potential of mobile apps as a useful tool for improving English proficiency among different student populations.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.131
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.366
Teacher spread0.353 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it