Inesigaing Niersi Sdens Se Of Smarphone Features In Online Learning: A Survey Study

Abstract

This study was aimed to reveal the actual condition of smartphone features usage by university students as their online learning tools during the Covid-19 pandemic whether the practice led to positive or negative assistance. This study was a quantitative survey study as it used an adapted questionnaire that administered to forty-two (42) respondents in a population which comprised of seventy (70) English Language Education students in an Islamic private university in Yogyakarta by using simple random sampling. The study reported that the students use smartphone features to support their online learning through some activities such as opening, browsing, sharing, discussing, and managing their online assignments. Furthermore, the students believed that smartphone features might possibly create a chance to facilitate an ergonomic learning tool by functioning smartphone features' multitasking ability. In sum, university students brought smartphone features as advantageous online learning tools to keep connecting them to the university life. However, because of this study designed as a small survey study, that kind of result should be standing on the broader scope and specific matter. In other words, a largerfuture study is needed to possibly facilitate a big result thus there will be a data that could

be used to generalize how every university students make use of smartphone features in

online learning.