Extensive listening practice and input enhancement using mobile phones : encouraging out-of-class learning with mobile phones
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Reinders, Hayo
Cho, Min Young
Cho, Min Young
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2010-09
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Journal Article
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2nd language acquisition
mobile phones
cellphones
mobile phones
cellphones
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Reinders, H., Cho, M.Y. (2010). Extensive listening practice and input enhancement using mobile phones : encouraging out-of-class learning with mobile phones.TESL - EJ. 14 (2).. NOTE: This is research undertaken prior to the author being affiliated with the Unitec Institute of Technology.
Abstract
The use of mobile phones and other mobile devices for educational purposes has received increasing attention in recent years (Chinnery, 2006). Teachers and materials designers are starting to explore the potential of ubiquitous, relatively cheap and increasingly powerful devices as potential supports for learning and teaching. This is partly in response to learner expectations: already in 2003 a study (Thornton & Houser, 2003) found that young Japanese learners preferred to use their cellphone for almost everything, from emailing to reading books and this trend has continued, also outside Japan. A recent study in Taiwan showed that language learners enjoyed learning with their mobile phones, largely because they could learn when and where they wanted but also, interestingly, because they felt that the ‘bite-sized chunks’ of learning content (due to limitations such as screen size) were actually helpful to them in managing their learning (Chen, Hsieh, & Kinshuk, 2008). There are other potential pedagogical advantages too. Mobile phones are taken everywhere and can therefore support situated learning. For example, a second language speaker who needs to see a doctor could access relevant vocabulary and expressions while actually at the clinic. Situated learning theory holds that learning is more likely to take place when the information is contextually relevant to the learner and when it can be put to use immediately (Lave & Wenger, 1991). Related to this is the obvious fact that phones are social tools; they facilitate all forms of communication and collaboration between peers. In this way they support social and constructive activities, as supported by sociocultural theories of learning.
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