Mobile-based Blended Instruction in a Foreign Language Classroom as a Model of Enhancing Learners´ Attitude

This paper presents a new pedagogical teaching model for foreign language learning. The effect of implementation of mobile-based blended instruction in classroom on the learners´ attitude of learning a foreign language will be examined. Our blended learning model is defined as the combination of face-to-face lecture, pair work and collaborative practice, and individual-level shadowing and feedback activity using iPod Touch in a traditional non-wired classroom. Our lessons are designed on the basis of the ARCS model, which expects to enhance learner´s learning motivation. Our research reveals that with effective use of mobile tools and its contents the instruction can facilitate students´ learning process by providing types of task to attempt and opportunities to accomplish them and stimulate learners´ motivation or consciousness toward more communicative strategies.