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Designing Interactive Cross-Cultural Mobile-Assisted Language Learning

Designing Interactive Cross-Cultural Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
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Author(s): Pin-Hsiang Natalie Wu (Chien-kuo Technology University, Taiwan)and Michael W. Marek (Wayne State College, USA)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 24
Source title: Language Learning and Literacy: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9618-9.ch026

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Abstract

Using communication technology for learning is a path to new patterns of thinking. This chapter examines the affordances provided by using smartphone technology in English for cross-cultural understanding. University students from Japan and Taiwan used the popular app LINE collaboratively for five weeks, culminating in jointly-written essays. Data collection used a survey, open-ended questions, and analysis of the essays. The students saw English as an important international language in which they need competency, strongly favored use of technology to assist language learning, appreciated the study's cross-cultural experience, and found the dynamics of the group to be interesting and motivating. The authors provide four best practices for using LINE and similar applications for English learning: that they be thought of as communication tools, that students need strong support concerning required tasks, that students must understand how tasks using technology benefit them, and that true online communities may include multiple platforms.

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