Mid Term Outline

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MIDTERM

EAP

October 2012

1

Mobile Language Learning: More than just ‘the Platform’: An Outline

·         Purpose : To comment on Glen Stockwell’s  (2012)article on using mobile phones for vocabulary activities and  to examine the effect on the platform 

·         Thesis: Data suggests that Stockwell findings are not accurate enough even deficient in some aspects

·         Audience: readers of the journal, teachers and researches  

I    Definition

a.       Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)

b.      Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)

II Platform

a.       Stockwell’s (2010) research

1.      Short presentation

2.      Problems

b.      Smart phones

1.      Advantages

2.      Solution to Stockwell platform problems

III Activities 

a.       Description, Assessment  and  judgement

b.      Web browser research incorporation

c.        Simple modifications to mobile phone  interface

IV  Learning Software

a.       Assumptions

1.      Software can or cannot be separated from the platform

b.      Response

V Conclusion

a.       MALL  towards apps technology

b.      MALL vs. CALL

c.       MALL  as replacement of existing language learning  resources

References

Ballance, O.J. (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