An Investigation into the Impact of Mobile-Game on Blended English Learning Module

In modern societies, technology, teaching, and learning are integrated as they are changing constantly. Real life experience in itself has become a source of reference for the new training content. In this regard, the promotion of higher education, scientific and morally correct path seems more than ever necessary. Since mobile communication in collaboration with the media as game-playing makes the interaction among humans stable, in the current study, teaching English as an international language was examined in a blended manner in order to strengthen the communication lines among citizens from different cultures and nations and eventually make them develop friendly ties. To that end, applying an immersion education system, academic material was taught in English during one semester to 140 male and female students aged 21-26 with intermediate proficiency level through combining formal training with two kinds of games, namely, off the shelf and domestic. The design of the current study is a multi-dimensional one benefiting from formative tests during the process of teaching and learning, summative tests at the end of the semester, and a Likert type attitude questionnaire. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of data revealed a significant relationship between the application of English content reliant on the domestic Iranian-Islamic culture and improvement of Persian learner's English proficiency. Thus, it can be drawn that the domestic culture-based digital content can act as a mediator to shorten the path of learning foreign languages as well as to ease the interactions so that to develop friendship among nations.