This is MALL version TLL class
Going to MALL(Mobile Assisted Language Learning)
What are words that come up firstly when you heard MALL? Shopping and take branded wedges, clothes or even PGC? Nope. We will not in it, but in language learning revolution. So what are the majors will be talking about? Let’s check this one quote:
Trifanova et al. (2004 p.3) define mobile devices as “...any device that is small, autonomous and unobtrusive enough to accompany us in every moment”.
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Do you agree with that statement? I do agree with that, how about you guys? Well, the portable device is a main reason why people can say is enough to company them in every moment. It is practice and offering some benefits also to help in acquiring language learning. In the previous session my class had a group presentation about kind of devices in language learning. Here I will make it brief conclusion.
- Mobile learning: learning mediated via handled devices and available anytime and anywhere. It is portability and provides distant learning with feedback and assistance. We can use it for vocab learning, quizzes and surveys.
- Personal digital assistants (PDAs): the primary function is as translator devices. It’s also called as smartphone because it consists of video clips, exercises and glossary. Besides that PDAs also offering internet and wireless access which is make it possible to do file sharing between teacher and student and among students itself.
- iPods: actually I only know that it can provide us media for listening music but in another case I found in one study case that students in Spanish class used iPod to respond to verbal quizzes, submit audio assignments, record audio journals and received oral feedback from their instructor meanwhile students in Turkish class used it to listen to authentic material such as news, songs and poems and to the instructor’s vocabulary and translation (Belanger, 2005).
Those are the advantages that we can take from the technologies while about the disadvantages please find it out ^^. Anyway have you ever heard about mobile phone is make getting closer who are in distance and make a distance between who are in innermost? Yup, that’s right I thought. I often faced the situation like that around me. Somehow human cannot be replaced by the technology even the most sophisticated one. Social interaction is equally important guys!
Source: http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num1/emerging/
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Which one of the devices above will you use when become a teacher? What is the reason?
Natasha
Nice Post Chinhttp:
Do you want to use MALL and CALL in your class in the future?
Do you use portable device to support your own language learning? which device that you use? and why you use it?
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