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Left to my own devices : learner autonomy and mobile-assisted language learning /

Left to my own devices : learner autonomy and mobile-assisted language learning / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera. - 1 online resource (xix, 216 pages) : illustrations. - Innovation and leadership in English language teaching, v. 6 2041-272X ; . - Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching 6. Language and Linguistics Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2012, ISBN: 9789004248694. .

Preliminary Material / Chapter One: Language Learning Defined by Time and Place: A Framework for Next Generation Designs / Chapter Two: Towards A Rationale for Mobile Learning / Chapter Three: Language Learning on the Move: A Review of Mobile Blogging Tasks and their Potential / Chapter Four: Learning on Location with Ami: The Potentials and Dangers of Mobile Gaming for Language Learning / Chapter Five: Mobile Learning in Action: Towards a Formulaic Approach to Second Language Acquisition / Chapter Six: Mobile Technology and Tudent Autonomy in Oral Skill Acquisition / Chapter Seven: Mobile Technology, Collaborative Reading, and Elaborative Feedback / Chapter Eight: Bringing The World into the Institution: Mobile Intercultural Learning for Staff and Students / Chapter Nine: Workplace Mobile-Assisted Second Language Learning: Designing for Learner Generated Authenticity / Chapter Ten: Learning Greenlandic by Sms: The Potentials of Text Messages Support for Second Language Learners in Greenland / About The Authors / Javier E. Díaz-vera -- Agnes Kukulska-Hulme -- Frank Farmer and María Elena Llaven Nucamendi -- Anna Comas-Quinn and Raquel Mardomingo -- David Robison -- Yanling Su Jones -- Reima Al-Jarf -- Philip Murphy , David Bollen and Craig Langdon -- David M. Palfreyman -- Lisa Gjedde and Mads Bo-Kristensen -- Barfuss Cathrine Ruge -- Javier E. Díaz-vera.

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This book is the result of five years of intensive dedication to teaching innovation and curriculum development and offers a series of studies exploring how mobile technologies in particular, and mobile learning in general, may be used for second language teaching and learning in a wide variety of environments. Although a strong emphasis is laid on issues to do with autonomy and independence in second language acquisition, the volume also examines the connections and interrelations of mobile learning and second language teaching and learning process on the whole, as well as the process of adoption of new, mobile technologies as teaching tools in various communities across the globe. The volume is targeted at a broad spectrum of readers including academics in the field of e-learning, online learning, and ICT-based learning, with an interest in exploring the possibilities of mobile-assisted learning and the new developments of ICT—in particular, portable devices—for the foreign language classroom. It is most attractive to those interested in the emerging field of mobile-assisted learning in general, and its potential for foreign language teaching and learning in particular.

9781780526478

10.1163/9781780526478 DOI


Education--Distance Education & Learning.
Education--Adult & Continuing Education.
Open learning, home learning, distance education.
ELT: learning material & coursework.
English language--Study and teaching.
Mobile communication systems in education.
Learner autonomy.
EDUCATION / Elementary

LB1576 / .L44 2012

372.6

811.111