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Title:      HOW MOBILE ARE TOP-RATED MOBILE LANGUAGE LEARNING APPS?
Author(s):      Heather Lotherington
ISBN:      978-989-8533-76-0
Editors:      Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías
Year:      2018
Edition:      Single
Keywords:      MALL, Mobility, Everywhereness, Dynamism, Augmented Reality, Production Pedagogy
Type:      Full Paper
First Page:      121
Last Page:      128
Language:      English
Cover:      cover          
Full Contents:      click to dowload Download
Paper Abstract:      A recent survey of top-rated mobile(-assisted) language learning (MALL) apps revealed four front-runners on the digital marketplace: three proprietary language course apps: duolingo, Babbel, busuu, and one flashcard/spaced repetition system (SRS): Memrise (Lotherington, 2017). The survey was followed by empirical studies of the embedded epistemological and pedagogical approaches to language in these MALL apps. Case study findings indicated that all four apps taught language through drills, and relied heavily on dated pedagogies and structural conceptions of both language and learning. This paper overviews the potential of mobility in MALL pedagogy, and examines whether and how these four top-rated MALL apps capitalized on the affordances of mobility in their pedagogical approaches and content presentation, concluding that mobility was used primarily for marketing and distribution rather than for innovative instructional design.
   

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