From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use (MALU)

From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use (MALU). By Huw Jarvis, & Marianna Achilleos.

This study is considered one of the recent studies which talks about the integration between technology and language learning. The article's authors are criticizing CALL programs and think that we are living in the post-CALL era. The article presents some of the fields that have appeared after CALL such as: technology enhanced language learning (TELL), web enhanced language learning (WELL), and network-based language learning (NBLL). Actually, all these acronyms are related to CALL because all of them are dealing with computers. The participants of this study are non native English learners who are students at a university in the UK and it aims to discover which devices and applications do learners use?, how do they use them?, and to what extent do students believe their language learning is enhanced by the use these technologies? There are semi-structured interviews and closed-ended questions to collect the data. The article shows that computers and laptop are still preferred for the conscious learning, but NNSoE use many others devices for conscious learning and unconscious acquisition. So, the main suggestion in this study is a shift from computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use (MALU).

Here is its link: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1004355