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Exploring the Relationships Between EFL Learners’ Usage of Technology and Their Approaches to Learning English

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Innovative Technologies and Learning (ICITL 2018)

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Objective: Nowadays, technology plays an important role in learning; hence, it is important to explore the relationships between EFL learners’ usage of technology and their approaches to learning English. Method: This study involved 186 English department undergraduates in Taiwan and utilized two questionnaires to respectively survey EFL learners’ usage of technology and their approaches to learning English. In particular, the approaches to learning English survey used in this study is a newly designed questionnaire which includes eight factors: Intrinsic Interest, Commitment to Work, Relating Ideas, Understanding, Fear of Failure, Aim for Qualification, Minimizing Scope of Study, and Memorization. Results and findings: Exploratory factor analysis revealed adequate validity of the new questionnaire. The regression analyses indicated that EFL learners’ approaches to learning English were associated with their technology usage for learning English such as recommendation, usefulness, and ease of use. Discussion: This study will contribute to our understanding of EFL learners using technology for learning in the future.

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  1. Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ching-Fang Juan, Hsin-I She & Kuo-En Chang

  2. Wenzao Chinese Language Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Chia-Yin Hung

  3. Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

    Silvia Wen-Yu Lee

  4. Program of Learning Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jyh-Chong Liang & Chin-Chung Tsai

  5. Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jyh-Chong Liang & Chin-Chung Tsai

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  2. Kun Shan University, Tainan City, Taiwan

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  3. Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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  4. University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

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Juan, CF. et al. (2018). Exploring the Relationships Between EFL Learners’ Usage of Technology and Their Approaches to Learning English. In: Wu, TT., Huang, YM., Shadiev, R., Lin, L., Starčič, A. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11003. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99737-7_44

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