The study of the effect of the cell phone in learning on motivation, self-awareness, and educational developments of students in Arabic course

How mobile learning can effect on student's motivation, self-awareness, and educational developments in Arabic course is what being study in this essay. Quasi-experimental method, using pre test and post test within the control group, has been used in this study. Statistical population was consisted of students from Sari Islamic Azad University in 2011. Based on clustering sampling method, tow classes with 69 students were selected and considering random clustering method, students were classified into experimental (39) and control (36) groups. Hermes achievement motivation test, Rajkumar Saraswat self-awareness questionnaire and researcher- made test on Arabic course were the study tools. The validity of the researcher- made test was confirmed by experts in the field and the reliability was calculated by test-retest as 0.85.co-varience analysis, therefore, was used so as to test the research hypothesis.The findings showed that the mean scores of experimental group were in higher level than of the control group, indicating that the cell phone has a great effect on increasing student's motivation, self-awareness, and educational achievement in Arabic course.