Mid Term Annotated Bibliography

Stockwell, G (October 2012). Working with  Constrains in Mobile  Learning : A Response  to Ballance. Language Learning & Technology. 16, (3), 24–31 Retrieved October 2012 ,from http://caece.campusuniversidad.com.ar/mod/resource/view.php?id=20171

Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) Is Here to Stay

Stockwell finds several areas of concern in Ballance’s(2012)  words. To begin with, Stockell (2012)declares that Ballance has preconceived ideas in his claim that MALL activities should not replicate pen a paper ones.  He goes on to explain that ‘the activities were developed as part of an intelligent system that kept detailed records of what learners knew based on the performance in [for example] the vocabulary activities’ Stockwell(2012 p 25).

In addition to that, Stockwell defines the complexity of the system of the activities for the mobile phones. This system included push and pull models, a variety of gradable interactive activities to cater to different learning styles and much more. What is more Stockwell refutes Ballance negative idea of replicating pen a paper activity types on MALL technology. Alluding that many mobile phone users incorporated traditional handwriting activities such as schedules, and calendars into mobile phones.

Furthermore Stockwell continues defying Ballance’s opinion about the impact of smart phone and their apps. Ballance has claimed that the new smart phones will instantly solve the technical disadvantages of Stockwell activities. Stockwell answers clearly that even though smart phones present some commendable advantages such as bigger screens and the mobile applications. This two supposed improvements could also be detrimental.

To conclude Stockwell proposed   that   teachers should move with the times and create and adapt activities to provide their students with the best possible type of learning resources considering the speed technology moves at.

References

Ballance, O (October 2012). Mobile Language  Learning: More Than Just “The Platform”. Language Learning & Technology. 16 (3), 21–23. Retrieved October 2012, from http://caece.campusuniversidad.com.ar/mod/resource/view.php?id=20170

Stockwell, G (October 2012). Working with  Constrains in Mobile  Learning : A Response  to Ballance. Language Learning & Technology. 16, (3), 24–31 Retrieved October 2012 ,from http://caece.campusuniversidad.com.ar/mod/resource/view.php?id=20171