Towards the construction of a field: The developments and implications of mobile assisted language learning (MALL).
There has been little review research with regard to the latest developments of mobile assisted language learning (MALL) research and its implications for professionals in this emerging field of information technology applied to language teaching and research. Hence, this work aimed to review a numb...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 164 - 181 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
4/1/2016
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=114160253&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 114160253 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 2055768X JEO9 jtl: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities issn: 2055768X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 4/1/2016 vid: 31 iid: 1 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 114160253 10.1093/llc/fqu070 ppf: 164 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 672KB tig: atl: Towards the construction of a field: The developments and implications of mobile assisted language learning (MALL). aug: au: Gi-Zen Liu Hui-Ching Lu Chun-Ting Lai affil: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China su: Information technology research Foreign language education Mobile learning Virtual classrooms Digital humanities sug: subj: Information technology research Foreign language education Mobile learning Virtual classrooms Digital humanities ab: There has been little review research with regard to the latest developments of mobile assisted language learning (MALL) research and its implications for professionals in this emerging field of information technology applied to language teaching and research. Hence, this work aimed to review a number of studies that investigated the effectiveness of using such mobile devices to facilitate language learning, teaching, and research. As well as providing an overview of previous research related to MALL, this review article also presents some practical implications for both educators and researchers who intend to use mobile devices in their classrooms and studies. The investigators of this review study searched the available literature published in the ISI Web of Science using keywords and reviews of titles and abstracts, and obtained a total of 24 mobile learning (m-learning) articles. After the data collection process, the researchers used text-mining techniques and adopted the m-learning task model (Taylor et al., 2006) to categorize and analyze these 24 journal articles in order to examine developments and trends in MALL. Results show that the majority of researchers aim to identify the effectiveness and efficiency of MALL by using newly developed mobile devices, such as smart phones and iPads, and while these approaches are generally considered beneficial, they also present some challenges to users, academics, and teachers. To conclude, more research is needed to further investigate the communication that occurs among learners with the use of various mobile devices, and their developments of various cognitive learning domains. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: © 2019 EADH: The European Association for Digital Humanities. item: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities holder: Oxford University Press / USA dt: @attributes: year: 2016 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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