Mobile technology offers great potential for university students’ language learning. Numerousstudies have been conducted on utilizing mobile technology in language learning classroom.However, using... Show moreMobile technology offers great potential for university students’ language learning. Numerousstudies have been conducted on utilizing mobile technology in language learning classroom.However, using it in self-initiated and self-directed learning outside class remains to be explored.The present study employed the integrative model of behavior prediction to investigate the re-lationships between attitude, subjective norm, self-efficacy and behavioral intention, as well asthe association between intention, facilitating conditions, self-regulation skills and actual use ofmobile technology in self-directed language learning. This study also examined whether self-regulation skills moderated intention and actual use. Survey data from 676 language learnersin different disciplines from Chinese universities were collected and analyzed using structuralequation modeling approach. The results showed that 37.1 percent of respondents indicated thatthey never used mobile technology for self-directed language learning. Of the other 425 re-spondents who did indicate that they used mobile technology for this purpose, the majority ofthem seemed to be extrinsically motivated. Learning activities regarding vocabulary acquisitionand translation were far more reported than those in terms of listening, speaking, reading andwriting. In addition, attitude and subjective norm significantly explained students’ intention touse mobile technology, but self-efficacy did not have a direct effect on students’ intention.Moreover, students’ self-regulation skills and intention significantly predicted students’ actual useof mobile technology. Through moderation analysis, the results indicated that the relationshipbetween intention and actual behavior would be stronger with any increase in self-regulationskills. These findings are discussed and implications are formulated. Show less