مجلة إشكالات في اللغة و الأدب
Volume 10, Numéro 5, Pages 443-458
2021-12-25

Teachers’ And Students’ Attitudes Towards Enhancing Foreign Languages Learners' Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Mobile-assisted Learning

Authors : Oumeddour Soror . Baghzou Sabrina .

Abstract

The present study investigates foreign language teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards the effectiveness of mobile-assisted learning in the development of foreign language learners' intercultural communicative competence in the Algerian society. It urges the teachers to rely on mobile-assisted learning as a supplementary material to foster their learners’ intercultural communication. Consequently, two questionnaires have been administered in order to gather data about this issue. The first questionnaire has been administered to forty teachers of English at the department of letters and English language, in the University of 8 Mai 1945-Guelma; Algeria. The second one, has been directed to sixty third year students from the same department. The gained results have shown that the participants believe that using smartphones in learning has a significant impact on enhancing learners’ intercultural communication.

Keywords

Intercultural Communication ; Mobile assisted learning ; Technology