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Examining EFL Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and The Adoption of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: A Partial Least Square Approach By Liwei Hsu in 2017 A.            Background of the Research The integration of technology into EFL curriculum design is a feasible means to assist students in gaining adequate English ability. However, the effectiveness of such approaches depends on teachers’ technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) of computer-assisted language learning (CALL [Wu, 2015]). Day by day, mobile learning’s or m-learning’s effectiveness and efficiency has been established in general educational contexts, its benefits should be extendable to EFL contexts as well (Chung, Chen, Kuo, 2015; Zaki & Yunus, 2015). In spite of quick development of research concerning m-learning in recent years, a gap exists between the penetration of mobile devices in general and their adoption in e...

Improving T echnological Pedagogi c al C on t ent Know l e dge (T P ACK) of Pre-Service English Language T e achers By Ceylan Y ang ı n Ers a n l i in 2016 A.       Background of Research The r a pid d e v e l op m en ts in the area of d i g ital tec h n o l o gies put t h e use of t echn o l o g y i n t h e he art o f n e a r l y e v e ry aspect of i nd i v idual s ’ l i v es. T h is b r o ad use of tec h no l o g y h as m a n y p o siti v e e f fects on p eo p le ’ s e v e r y d ay l i v es. E d ucation i s n o t a n e x ce p tio n . T h e t e ach i n g and l e a r n i n g env i ro n m ents are r e -d es i gn e d acco r d in g ly all o w i n g to Inte r n et a cces s . Ne a rly all of t h e s tu dents h a ve t h eir p e rs o n al c o m puters. T hey a re digi t al n ati v es a n d c a n e f fectively use the Inter n et r es o urces. In t h e lig h t of t h ese tec h n o logic...