Here is a summary of some of the points in an article cited below. I am a firm believer that technology has and will continue to change our way of teaching / learning languages...and everything else!
Mobile Assisted Language Learning
These days mobile devices such as PDAs, phones, and other handheld devices, are used everywhere for doing everything ranging from voice calling to making short message, video chat, listening to audio (Mp3, Mp4, Mpeg), web surfing, shopping, and the like. Apart from these benefits, mobile devices have increasingly grown toward becoming tools for education and language learning, and all its users from teachers or learners are getting used to this environment to make education as ubiquitous as possible. Moreover, the emerging of internet made open and distance learning a means of receiving education from all parts of the world.
Benefits And Challenges
Mobile learning technology is more useful for doing activities outside the classroom. Such activities enable learning to be more directly connected with the real world experiments. Moreover, learning through mobile phones outside the classroom has the advantage of better exploiting the learner's free time; even the students on the move can improve their learning skills.
D) Learning Pronunciation
Having such facilities, the learners may download dictionaries on the PDA with sound functions so that they can learn the correct pronunciation of unfamiliar or new words to be able to fulfill their learning needs. Mobile devices with multimedia function give the learners the opportunity to record their own voice. Then, teachers are able to make a better assessment of the students' weaknesses in pronunciation.
Challenges Of Using Facebook In Class
Finally, it is also important to consider the learning preferences of students. Those learners who have a more rigid, stronger, traditional view of teaching and learning do not consider that Facebook can be an effective online environment to learn. For example, according to some students, to grasp and enhance the English language, it is necessary to have a more academic and formal structure (Manan et al., 2012).
Whatsapp And Language Learning
In fact, wireless technologies such as laptop computers, palmtop computers and mobile phones are revolutionizing education and transforming the traditional classroom-based learning and teaching into anytime and anywhere education. The term "mobile learning" or "mlearning", is not a new one. It describes learning of the learners' not defined location or when he or she uses the benefits of mobile technology when learning
Whatsapp Messenger
There has been a new trend in the ICT world which is called the social network. Social network has been defined by many and generally viewedas referring to networked tools that allow people to meet, interact and share ideas, artifacts and interests with each other (Anderson, 2010). This social network has opened up new o pportunities of interaction and collaboration between teachers and learners.Go To Passage
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ABSTRACT
This book deals with the innovative methods of teaching language with technology.