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Durán-Bautista, Diana C.; Huertas-Malagón, Sandra Patricia – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2021
In foreign language instruction, students are often exposed to computer-mediated testing in international exams and language courses; however, regular classrooms are not equipped with computer labs to offer a lesson coherent with that testing procedure. To fill this gap, mobile-assisted language learning emerges as a portable option for…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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Taylor, Shanon; Urquhart, Amanda – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2018
Anecdotal evidence shared by teachers appears to support the iPad as a useful tool for working with children with autism. However, there are thousands of possible applications, known as "apps", available in the Apple iTunes store for download and trying to decide what would be most useful for students can be daunting. This article will…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Potter, Lee Ann – Social Education, 2014
In this article, director of Educational Outreach at the Library of Congress Lee Ann Potter describes a classroom activity that focuses on an 1876 single-page circular published in Salem, Massachusetts about Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech. A. M. Bell's son, Alexander Graham Bell described "Visible Speech" as "a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Speech Communication, Speech Skills, Visual Literacy
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Mohammadi, Mojtaba; Safdari, Nastaran – Research-publishing.net, 2015
The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of online mobile-assisted task-based activities on improving Iranian intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' speaking skills. To achieve the purpose of the study, 90 intermediate language learners were selected ranging between 13 to 16 years old and divided into three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Kim, Hee-Kyung – The EUROCALL Review, 2015
This paper examines the effectiveness of a mobile assisted blended learning scenario for pronunciation in Korean language. In particular, we analyze how asynchronous oral communication between learners of Korean and native speakers via "kakaotalk" (an open source mobile phone application) may be beneficial to the learner in terms of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Vignettes, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
Kang, Tingting – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Mobile devices have become a significant part of students' lives. The average number of hours that college students reported using their smartphones each day was nine hours--more than half of their daily waking hours (Roberts, Yaya, & Manolis, 2014). Although software developers and teachers have started to develop and incorporate various…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Educational Strategies, Instructional Innovation
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Liu, T.-Y. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
This paper reported the results of a study that aimed to construct a sensor and handheld augmented reality (AR)-supported ubiquitous learning (u-learning) environment called the Handheld English Language Learning Organization (HELLO), which is geared towards enhancing students' language learning. The HELLO integrates sensors, AR, ubiquitous…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Speech Skills, Educational Environment, English (Second Language)