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Final research report "THE REAL
SITUATION AND BAD EFFECST
WHEN THE THUONG TIN HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS ABUSE
MOBILE PHONES"

Bui Thi Bich D06- K52 Research Report
THE REAL SITUATION AND BAD EFFECST WHEN THE
THUONG TIN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ABUSE
MOBILE PHONES
By
Bui Thi Bich
Class: D06-K52
Supervisor: Ms Dau Thi Le Hieu
Faculty of Foreign Language
Hanoi University of Technology
May 2010
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ABSTRACT/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The age of information and technology has brought mankind lots of the
“breakthrough” inventions, in which the appearances of mobile phones with the cheap
costs and high application has made the great changes for people’s lives, especially for the
youth. Most of the cities- dwellers possess one or more hand phones, in particular, the
secondary and college students do. The mobile phone has been admitted to offer plenty of
benefits, but it is also said to create too many troubles, in deed. The fact is that the Thuong
Tin high school students are abusing the mobile phones, which is complained by a number
of parents and students. Therefore, this research was concerned with the overuse of mobile
phones of Thuong Tin high school students. The objective of the research was to explore
real situation and the bad effects that Thuong Tin students might face up with in case of
abusing mobile phones. Data were gathered using the following methods: questionnaire

survey for collecting the facts related to abusing hand phones, and existing information
about negative consequences that students might encounter.
The study was concluded that Thuong Tin high school student has been abusing
hand phones with “high frequency”, i.e. they were depending on mobile phones. As the
result, many of them have received the bad effects from the mobile phone itself.
From this real situation together with negative effects caused by mobile phones, it is
recommended that using hand phone by Thuong Tin students should be limited apart from
necessary circumstances, and more consideration should be also taken into by parents
before making decisions of buying their children, the students in the physical and mental
growth, a mobile phone.
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Overview of project
Nowadays, together with the development of science and technology, the
information science has been successfully developing for the last few years. Especially
Vietnam has experienced the integration of mobile phone into society. Progress has been
made to the point that small, reasonable mobile phones with expanded capabilities
(applications) are available for innumerable uses. Therefore, there has been a massive
increase in personal mobile phones over the past five years. Moreover, the growth of our
economy, our higher living standards permits parents to buy their children one or more
hand phones in purpose of communicating or controlling them more easily.
It is undeniable that cell phones have played an important role in our lives and
become one of the basic of our lives due to the enormous benefits they has brought: “They
are life-saving tools when we are alone and encounter unexpected troubles” , “They are
unmatched, ultra-convenient communication tools”, “They are fantastic entertainment
tools” ( Linda Song, 2009). However, everything has two sides: advantages and
disadvantages. Beside different benefits, cell phones have bad influences on living
environment and our health; especially, “With cell phone use becoming more and more
ubiquitous, particularly among high school students, and cell phones becoming more and

more sophisticated, tempers run high when it comes to students, schools, and cell phones” (
Katharine Saw, 2005). The secondary students, who are in the period of physical and
mental growth, are abusing cell phones without being aware of its possible harms. Together
with complaints of some teachers that” I feel so annoyed and disrespected when the
students in class would like to go out to receive the calls or just focus on messages instead
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of concentrating on lessons”, this phenomenon is described as “serious in the extreme’ in
Thuong Tin area today and has become great interest of most parents and teachers. At
present, there has yet been any study about cell phone overuse of Thuong Tin high school
students to warn them of possible harms that they might not aware of.
1.2. Statement of objectives of hypothesis
Therefore, the research was conducted to explore the real situation of abusing
mobile phone of the pupils at Thuong Tin School and bad effects on their morality and
health. The topic was implemented in hope that Thuong Tin students should limit their cell
phone uses.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1. Source of information
Most of information was retrieved from the Internet websites (research papers)
which include major data related to the mobile phone uses and negative effects when
abusing cell phones:
* Erin Schreiner studied about the effect of mobile phone on students. He mentioned
both positive and negative consequences of cell phones. It was noted that cell phones
presented new opportunities and challenges for students. It was also described as a
convenient and helpful tool in our daily life such as: to make phone calls, to watch films, to
take photos, etc. in spite of those benefits, cell phones was argued to lead students to more
distraction and off task behaviors. Because when the cell phone rang during class,
everyone’s attention was drawn away from the lesson, and the flow of learning was
disrupted. More importantly, it was added that many of the features of the cell phones
could be used to engage inappropriate behaviors; for example, taking inappropriate pictures

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