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Exploring the technological acceptance of a mobile learning tool used in the teaching of an indigenous language

Language is the primordial element for cultural transfer in indigenous communities; if it is not practiced, there is a risk of losing it and with it, a large part of the history of a community. Ecuador is a multicultural and multiethnic country with 18 indigenous peoples. Currently, in this country,...

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Autores principales: Criollo-C, Santiago, Lema, Mayron, Gonzalez, Mario Salvador, Jaramillo-Alcázar, Angel, Guerrero-Arias, Andrea, Luján-Mora, Sergio
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Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34150997
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.550
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author Criollo-C, Santiago
Lema, Mayron
Gonzalez, Mario Salvador
Jaramillo-Alcázar, Angel
Guerrero-Arias, Andrea
Luján-Mora, Sergio
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Lema, Mayron
Gonzalez, Mario Salvador
Jaramillo-Alcázar, Angel
Guerrero-Arias, Andrea
Luján-Mora, Sergio
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description Language is the primordial element for cultural transfer in indigenous communities; if it is not practiced, there is a risk of losing it and with it, a large part of the history of a community. Ecuador is a multicultural and multiethnic country with 18 indigenous peoples. Currently, in this country, some native languages are at risk of disappearing due to factors such as racial discrimination, underestimation of the language, and, above all, the lack of interest and motivation of the new generations to learn this language. Information technologies have made it possible to create mobile applications such as games, dictionaries, and translators that promote the learning of the Kichwa language. However, the acceptance of technology has not been evaluated, nor the intention to involve mobile devices in the process of teaching this language. Subsequently the objective of this work is to explore the acceptance of technology and the use of mobile devices to motivate the learning of the Kichwa language. For this purpose, the mobile application “Otavalo Rimay” was used with several students of a Kichwa language learning center. The methodology used to verify the hypothesis of this work was Design Sciences Research (DSR) together with the theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). The instrument used for this evaluation was a survey carried out after the use of the mobile application. The statistical analysis of the results obtained indicates characteristics such as the utility and perceived ease of use, positively influence students to motivate the use of mobile devices in learning a language. The results also show the great technological acceptance by students for learning and confirm that currently, mobile learning is accepted for use in education.
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spelling pubmed-81890282021-06-17 Exploring the technological acceptance of a mobile learning tool used in the teaching of an indigenous language Criollo-C, Santiago Lema, Mayron Gonzalez, Mario Salvador Jaramillo-Alcázar, Angel Guerrero-Arias, Andrea Luján-Mora, Sergio PeerJ Comput Sci Computer Education Language is the primordial element for cultural transfer in indigenous communities; if it is not practiced, there is a risk of losing it and with it, a large part of the history of a community. Ecuador is a multicultural and multiethnic country with 18 indigenous peoples. Currently, in this country, some native languages are at risk of disappearing due to factors such as racial discrimination, underestimation of the language, and, above all, the lack of interest and motivation of the new generations to learn this language. Information technologies have made it possible to create mobile applications such as games, dictionaries, and translators that promote the learning of the Kichwa language. However, the acceptance of technology has not been evaluated, nor the intention to involve mobile devices in the process of teaching this language. Subsequently the objective of this work is to explore the acceptance of technology and the use of mobile devices to motivate the learning of the Kichwa language. For this purpose, the mobile application “Otavalo Rimay” was used with several students of a Kichwa language learning center. The methodology used to verify the hypothesis of this work was Design Sciences Research (DSR) together with the theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). The instrument used for this evaluation was a survey carried out after the use of the mobile application. The statistical analysis of the results obtained indicates characteristics such as the utility and perceived ease of use, positively influence students to motivate the use of mobile devices in learning a language. The results also show the great technological acceptance by students for learning and confirm that currently, mobile learning is accepted for use in education. PeerJ Inc. 2021-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8189028/ /pubmed/34150997 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.550 Text en ©2021 Criollo-C et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Computer Science) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Lema, Mayron
Gonzalez, Mario Salvador
Jaramillo-Alcázar, Angel
Guerrero-Arias, Andrea
Luján-Mora, Sergio
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34150997
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.550
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