Sunday, September 22, 2013

Benefit Of SMS in Learning English Language


Short Message Service (SMS), more popularly known as text messaging, developed as an initial by-product of the cell phone. For the purposes of this study, the term text messaging will encompass short message service (SMS), text messaging. SMS was used to support learning through engaging students in formative assessment objective question with feedback, as well as sms based collaborative learning tasks.

SMS should be studied by students and anyone else wishing to participate in our technology driven world. Learning SMS is rather simple yet effective and essential for the text context in which it is used. Today’s quick moving economy and on the go lifestyle affords us all the luxury of being informed at all time.

Nowadays, technologies has changed life in many ways, including way of learning. We have distance teaching now. However, if student learn SMS text and teachers use it to give lesson, it will broaden the use of distance teaching.

Finding from summative evaluations of the initiative have consistently shown that learners appreciated the text messages and felt that the SMS had helped them to stay focused and engaged in their studies. The messages also useful in providing important related to the courses. SMS also allowed them to learn anytime and anywhere and had helped them manage their studies better.

Mobile learning via SMS helps reduce the transactional distance of psychological and communication space often faced by distance learners who are separated in terms og geographical distance and time. It also enables the university to reach out to learners outside of conventional communication spaces, and it helps to keep leaners connected to the university, their friends and their tutor.

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