Mobile language learning: More than just “the platform.” – An outline

Purpose: To summarize Ballance’s (2012) view on the use of the new platform Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in Computer assisted language learning.

 

Thesis: It is important to assess the technological developments to be exploited, in this case the use of the new platform MALL.

Audience: Language teachers

1.0       Computer assisted language learning (CALL)

1.1. Origins and development

1.2. Characteristics

2.00     Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) as a new tool  

2.1       Empirical evidence of the effects of the mobile phone platform on vocabulary acquisition.

            2.2       The way to approach the design of learning software.

2.3       Suggestions to design MALL activities and some possible effect these activities may have

2.4       Potential of MALL to turn “dead time” into useful study time.

3.00     Conclusion: “does MALL have the potential to supplement our existing language learning resources with something else?”

References

Ballance, O.J. (2012). Mobile language learning: More than just “the platform.” Language Teaching & Technology, 16. Retrieved October 2012 from

http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2012/ballance.pdf