Mid-term Exam: Outline

New Tools for Language Learning

Purpose: To summarize Balance’s article on mobile learning.

Thesis: Technological innovations used for language learning: CALL and MALL. 

Audience: EAP teachers and students. Narrow.

Mobile Language Learning: More Than just “The Platform”

I Computer assisted language learning (CALL)

     A. Roots in the audio lingual method

     B. Focuses on the learner’s autonomy

            a. distance learning

     C. Engages language learners in communicative tasks outside the classroom.

II. Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)

     A. Focuses on vocabulary activities

     B. Pre smart-phones era

           a. internet costs

           b. constraints by the technology availability.

     C. Smart- phones era

           a. app-based

           b. exploiting touch screen technology

III. Conclusion

Reference 

Ballance, O. J. (2012). Mobile language learning, more than just the platform. Language Learning & Technology . Retrieved from http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2012/ballance.pdf