Let the Students Lead the Way: an Exploratory Study of Mobile Language Learning in a Classroom
This paper describes an exploratory study that was conducted at an international school using a mobile application designed to support situated mobile language learning. The mobile application, called Cloudbank, supports a repository for words and expressions that can be shared by several users. The study was started where the application was used for a limited activity within the classroom, which is using figures of speech in English. The students were given the freedom to explore the functionalities of the application, the affordances of the mobile device as well as to use it for other activities. The teachers initially believed that the application will be beneficial for learning figures of speech in English. The study revealed that Cloudbank is beneficial for supporting learning in several areas, collaboration among students and ownership of the knowledge leading to retention of the knowledge. It also highlighted how the technology stimulated discussions about the cultural aspects of languages. This paper presents an overview of the exploratory study and the observations.
Mobile Language Learning Collaboration Figures of Speech Language and Culture student-centered
Sobah Abbas Petersen Roslyn Sell Josie Watts
Dept. of Computer & Information Sciences Norwegian University of Science & Technology Trondheim, Nor Trondheim International School Festningsgate 2 Trondheim, Norway
国际会议
10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning(第十届移动学习国际会议)
北京
英文
55-61
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）