Acceptance and Use of Smartphones: AR-Enhanced EFL Reading Practices

The increasing technological practices in educational settings have boosted up a wide variety of mobile tools use. One the most recent is Augmented Reality (AR). As this newest technology whets many educators’ appetite various fields, EFL learning has taken its place among research related with AR enhanced practices. Although novel and promising tool for objectives, little known about learners' perceptions towards AR-enhanced reading effect these on learners’ smartphone acceptance levels learning. Herewith, aim study to investigate regarding practices' A total 32 second year vocational school students studying department culinary at state university participated study. This present adopted quasi-experimental mixed methods design. participants were introduced passages target language technologies increase comprehension texts. Survey Acceptance Use Smartphone Applications English Language Learning was used gather quantitative data semi-structured focus-group interview conducted understand their using smartphones results revealed that learners positive attitudes moderate They found motivating helpful understanding passages. Taken together, will contribute education technology-enhanced field.