Open AccessRealizing the Potential of Mobile Phone Technology for Language Learning
Author(s) -
Jack Burston
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the iall journal of language learning technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1050-0049
DOI - 10.17161/iallt.v41i2.8490
Subject(s) - mobile phone , intrusiveness , computer science , phone , mobile technology , foreign language , multimedia , mobile device , telecommunications , world wide web , linguistics , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , philosophy
This paper focuses on the exploitation of mobile phone technology for thelearning of foreign languages. It begins by considering the obstaclesfacing the effective use of mobile phone technology for language learning.In doing so, the paper describes four challenges that have to be overcomefor mobile phone technology to become an effective pedagogical tool.Specifically: Intrusiveness, Cost, Practical technological constraints andPedagogical methodologies. Having defined the issues that need to beaddressed, the paper then proceeds to describe how these challenges havebeen met in the design of MobLang, an EU funded Lifelong Learningproject.