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    TEACHING WRITING THROUGH WHATSAPP MESSENGER
    (Suleyman Demirel University, 2015) Maksut Gatiat; Alibek Zapir
    This article is about a study which aims at discovering the effect of using Whatsapp messenger on students' writing skills in English. It consists of background information about mobile learning, social networking sites, and their impact on a language learner's academic performance.
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    SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW
    (СДУ хабаршысы - 2021, 2021) S. Bolatbek
    Abstract. Nowadays the use of technology is rapidly increasing in the educational sphere as all operations can be quickly done with the utilization of these technologies. Adults, teenagers and even children can not imagine their life without smartphones which become an inseparable part of our lives. The aim of this review is to investigate the pros and cons of the usage of mobile applications in the ELT classroom and explore all currently available applications which are connected with teaching and learning English as a foreign language. A lot of studies have been done on the utilization of applications in English classrooms by researchers. The findings show that almost all of the scientists come to the conclusion that students who learnt a language using applications showed good results compared to learners who do not use them. Nevertheless, still more studies should be done to confirm the efficiency of the utilization of smartphone applications on definite language skills and cognition.
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    MOBILE LEARNING IN TERTIARY EDUCATION; CASE STUDY AT LANGUAGE SCHOOL, SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY
    (Suleyman Demirel University, 2016) Gatiat M.G.
    This study may have an impact on social change by helping university EFL teachers expand the written work aptitudes of their students. Significantly more , college educators need to know whether certain written work abilities can be improved by using WhatsApp. This research is a quasi experimental and qualitative research. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of using WhatsApp on improv ing the students' performance in English writing in Language School at Suleyman Demirel University. To accomplish this objective , and in an attempt to answer the research questions presented in the first part of this work, the researcher collected data th rough analyzing an English proficiency writing test which was classified into three domains each of which dealt with sub writing skills (mechanics of writing , usage and sentence formation).The procedures contained design and statistical analysis.