Description
Since mobile devices, especially Chinese learning apps, have been leveraged to assist learning, many recorded and unrecorded efforts have been taken to enhance the mobile experience in learning Chinese around the world. To facilitate knowledge transfer and exchange between learners and instructors of Chinese, further efforts to compare mobile experience in learning Chinese among different age groups and cultures must be considered.
Applying Mobile Technologies to Chinese Language Learning shares a variety of knowledge and skills on how to best leverage features and functions of mobile devices to enhance the mobile experience in learning Chinese. Additionally, it compares similarities and differences in mobile experience and provides a thorough overview to describe, explain, and predict these experiences in learning Chinese. Covering topics such as language learning apps, authentic language use, and mobile experiences, it is ideal for instructors, academicians, researchers, students, and practitioners.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Xiaoge Xu (Ed.)
Xiaoge Xu, PhD, is the founder of Mobile Studies International, a global institute of mobile media and communication research. He has been passionately promoting and conducting Mobile Studies, an emerging and interdisciplinary discipline. Among his research and business activities are various projects ranging from mobile journalism to mobile government in collaboration with practitioners and professors of mobile media and communication around the world. In providing service to the mobile industry, he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication Book Series of IGI Global. He also serves as a consultant of China Mobile Labs. He is an associate professor in digital media and communication at the School of International Communications, the University of Nottingham, China Campus. His expertise lies mainly in comparative mobile studies, including mobile experience and mobile journalism.