Mobile Technologies for Foreign Language Learning

• Authors: Ivana Šimonová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

‘Learning is much better with tablets’, today’s pupils and students often say. But, is it really true? Are the mobile devices and mobile technologies the mean performing didactic miracles? Do they really cause students enjoy learning and learn more with less effort? Even an optimist guesses it may not be like this. Do we (teachers) know how the mobile-assisted process of learning runs, what its advantages, weaknesses and limits are, whether learners really remember more, and/or enjoy the learning more? What is the role of the ‘novelty’ factor regarding the latest technologies? Do learners know how to exploit them for education purposes? And last but not least, what are teachers’ competences in this field? These are selected fields we are going to focus on.

Keywords

EN

mobile devices; m-learning; foreign language; learning

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal on Language, Literature and Culture in Education
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 25-39

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-07-06

Contributors

author

Ivana Šimonová

• University of Hradec Kralove Rokitanskeho 62 50003 Hradec Kralove Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/llce-2016-0002