This document summarizes the results of a student survey conducted by Lomonosov Moscow State University on the use of mobile devices in language learning. Some key findings include: (1) Most students own smartphones which they use everyday, (2) Popular uses of mobile devices include listening, accessing resources and using apps, (3) Students want to use mobile devices more in class for assessments, language tasks and accessing course materials. The report concludes that students are ready to incorporate mobile learning but guidance is needed for effective educational use.

1. Research and evaluation project
Mobile devices in Language
Classroom: theory and practice :
student survey results
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area
Studies
S.Titova, A.Avramenko © 2012

2. Mobile devices in learning
foreign languages
http://titova.ffl.msu.ru/for-students-ml-survey.html
Participants: 230 students of the 2-4
years and graduates of MSU
Time: September 2011 – March 2012

3. What mobile devices do you have?
Telephone
eReader
МР3
Tablet
Smartphone
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

4. What phone options do you use?
Player Listening
Calendar
Planning
Apps
Digital cam
Access to
Internet
resources
SMS Writing
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120%

5. What do you use mobile devices for?
Games
Reading texts
Multimedia
Database
Internet Access
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120%

6. How often do you employ mobile devices
in class and outside the class?
Twice a Never
Twice a week month 1%
16% 5%
Everyday
78%!!!

7. What tools and apps do you use
outside the class?
Never use
Online exercises
Voice Recorder
Digital cam
Encyclopedias
Reference materials
email
Mobile dictionaries
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

8. What tools do you use in class?
Never use
Voice Recorder
Encyclopedias
Presentations
Reference materials
Dictionaries
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

9. What for do your teachers use mobile
devices?
Never use
Online exercises
Voice recording
For teaching
process
Sharing materials organisation
Multimеdia
Communication outside the classroom
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

10. Where are mobile devices worth applying ?
Outside
Nowhere
the class
3%
16% In class
Both in 7%
class and
outside
the class
74%

11. How do you want to use mobile devices?
I do not want them to be used
Assessement
Language Tasks
Podcasts and videocasts
Course syllabus with calendar
Course apps
Communication and sharing materials
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

12. Do you want to use mobile devices in
your learning experience regularly?
NO
16%
YES
84%

13. Reports of the interviewed students
• Mobile devices are the best tools to be used for
both autonomous and collaborative work
• The 21st century is the era of technology. We
need m-learning!
• I used mobile devices everyday while studying
in Germany
• Mobile devices do not replace a teacher but
they provide an amazing visualization of
learning process
• Mobile devices can simplify access to materials
and improve academic interaction

14. Conclusions
 Smart phone is the most convenient mobile device for
learning
 There is no need in expensive computer connected
classrooms
 Technologically and psychologically students are ready
to use mobile devices and apps
 Students more frequently use mobile devices outside
the class on their own than in classroom work as an
access to reference materials, as multimedia material
playback and as a means of interaction
 They very rarely use in class educational apps; they
don't use mobile devices for production or for
collaborative activities

15. Conclusions
• Instructors unwillingly employ mobile devices
in their experience, don't guide the students
through available educational apps
• The pressure towards the use of mobile
devices is coming from students themselves
• it is a must to work out certain steps and
strategies of mobile technologies
implementation into traditional classroom to
avoid undesirable consequences of mobile
devices misuse in learning experience