Williams, Simon (2014) Mobile devices and learner interaction inside and outside the classroom. IATEFL 2013 Liverpool Conference, Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool, 8-12 April 2013. Published in: Pattison, Tania, (ed.) IATEFL 2013 Liverpool Conference Selections: 47th International Conference, Liverpool, 8-12 April 2013. 172-174. IATEFL, Faversham. ISBN 9781901095531

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Abstract

Language students nowadays frequently bring personal mobile devices to the classroom. The variation in devices may limit their pedagogic exploitation to negotiated student – student work outside lesson time and the bringing of results back for teacher-directed follow-up activities. Yet the notion of mobility and the co-construction of conversations in the process (Kukulska-Hulme, 2009: 159) are of greater value than the learning activities themselves. The paper reports on the use by lower-intermediate (IELTS 4.5) English language students of their mobile phones. The outcome suggests that mobile assisted language learning promotes greater student - student interaction in the context of structured collaborative learning both inside and outside the classroom and offers a way for language students to develop their own blended learning materials.

Reference
Kukulska-Hulme, A and L. Shield. 2008. ‘An overview of mobile assisted language-learning: From content delivery to supported collaboration and interaction’. ReCALL 20/3: 271-289.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Keywords:	MALL, mobile devices, language learning
Schools and Departments:	School of English > Sussex Centre for Language Studies
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1025 Teaching (Principles and practice)
Related URLs:	Organisation Publisher
Depositing User:	Simon Williams
Date Deposited:	05 Feb 2016 13:03
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2017 16:07
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59567

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