Emerging Technologies Going to the MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning. By George M. Chinnery

Emerging Technologies Going to the MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning. By George M. Chinnery

This article presents a brief  historical overview of mobile assisted language learning by showing some educational institutions' attempts to make mobiles as a part of the learning process. Mobile technologies offer numerous practical uses in language learning and its learning environments might be face-to-face, distance, or online. Actually, this approach includes several kins of devices besides cell phones, there are personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the iPods. Then the author concludes the study by showing some challenges and limitations of MALL such as  screen sizes, virtual keyboarding and  limited power.

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