Twenty-Five Years of MALL Experimental Implementation Studies: What Do We Really Know About It?

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Author(s): Jack Burston (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)and Androulla Athanasiou (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 25
Source title: Recent Tools for Computer- and Mobile-Assisted Foreign Language Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Alberto Andujar (University of Almeria, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1097-1.ch002

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Literacy and Language Studies / Media & Communications

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This chapter offers a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) studies, from the first in 1994 through 2018, relating to the experimental implementation of mobile-based affordances and applications in the teaching and learning of languages, L1 as well as L2. It derives from the analysis of over 2000 MALL studies that have appeared in almost 500 distinct journals and presentations in conferences given by nearly 300 different professional organizations, the great majority of both sources being unrelated to language learning and teaching. It provides background information relating to these studies, documents their profoundly atheoretical nature, details their pedagogical features, and assesses their learning outcome effectiveness.

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