Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes
Students at the end of this course will be able to:
- understand the principles and pedagogical benefits of mobile learning
- learn how to integrate Mobile Learning into the foreign language classroom
- become familiar with the use of mobile devices as pedagogical tools for learning/teaching a foreign language
- can design scenarios and projects that integrate mobile devices in the foreign language course
Course Content (Syllabus)
The aim of the course is the theoretical and practical approach, of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL).
During the course, students will study and how to integrate Mobile Learning into a foreign language classroom and become familiar with various mobile software that allows them to develop foreign language learning activities and design m-scenarios.
Content description (13 weeks)
1. Core Concepts
2. From e-Learning to m-Learning
3. Pedagogical benefits of m-Learning
4. Mobile Language Learning (MALL)
5. Applications of MALL to language teaching and learning
6. Digital Game-Based Learning and m-Learning
7. Digital Games in mobile devices
8. Augmented Reality and m-Learning
9. Applications of Augmented Reality in Foreign Language Teaching
10. Development of micro-activities in the French language course
11. Designing micro-scenarios using mobile devices in the French language course
12. Designing learning scenarios using mobile devices in the French language course
13. Designing learning scenarios using mobile devices in the French language course
Additional bibliography for study
Churchill, D., J.Lu, Th. K.F. Chiu & B. Fox (Ed), 2016, Mobile Learning Design Theories and Applications, Springer.
Crompton, Helen. (2013). A historical overview of mobile learning: Toward learner-centered education. In Zane L. Berge & Lin Muilenbury (Eds.), Handbook of Mobile Learning (3-14). New York, Routledge.
Karsenti, T. & Fievez, A. (2013). L’iPad à l’école : usages, avantages et défis : résultats d’une enquête auprès de 6057 élèves et 302 enseignants du Québec (Canada). Montréal, QC: CRIFPE.
Palalas, A. (2011). Mobile-assisted language learning: designing for your students. S. Thouësny & L. Bradley (Eds.), Second language teaching and learning with technology: views of emergent researchers (pp. 71-94). Dublin: Research-publishing.net
West, M., & Vosloo, St. (2013), Principes directeurs de l'UNESCO pour l'apprentissage mobile, UNESCO.