The Future of Foreign Language Instructional Technology: BYOD MALL
This paper describes trends in instructional technology that are influencing foreign language teaching today and that can be expected to increasingly do so in the future. Though already an integral part of foreign language instruction, digital technology is bound to play an increasing role in langua...
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Universitat Politècnica de València
2016-05-01
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| description | This paper describes trends in instructional technology that are influencing foreign language teaching today and that can be expected to increasingly do so in the future. Though already an integral part of foreign language instruction, digital technology is bound to play an increasing role in language teaching in the coming years. The greatest stimulus for this will undoubtedly be the accessibility of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), made possible through the exploitation of mobile devices owned by students themselves. The ubiquitous ownership of smartphones and tablet computers among adolescents and adults now makes a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach a feasible alternative to desktop computer labs. Making this work, however, especially in a financially and technologically restricted environment, presents a number of challenges which are the focus of this paper. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6543912e17774774b3d670c57195b4152022-12-21T23:46:48ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaThe EUROCALL Review1695-26182016-05-012413910.4995/eurocall.2016.44314200The Future of Foreign Language Instructional Technology: BYOD MALLJack Burston0Language Centre Cyprus University of TechnologyThis paper describes trends in instructional technology that are influencing foreign language teaching today and that can be expected to increasingly do so in the future. Though already an integral part of foreign language instruction, digital technology is bound to play an increasing role in language teaching in the coming years. The greatest stimulus for this will undoubtedly be the accessibility of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), made possible through the exploitation of mobile devices owned by students themselves. The ubiquitous ownership of smartphones and tablet computers among adolescents and adults now makes a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach a feasible alternative to desktop computer labs. Making this work, however, especially in a financially and technologically restricted environment, presents a number of challenges which are the focus of this paper.https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/eurocall/article/view/4431Mobile-Assisted Language LearningBring Your Own Device approachinstructional technology |
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| title | The Future of Foreign Language Instructional Technology: BYOD MALL |
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| title_short | The Future of Foreign Language Instructional Technology: BYOD MALL |
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| topic | Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Bring Your Own Device approach instructional technology |
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