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Title:
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ROLE OF NEEDS-ANALYSIS IN MOBILE LANGUAGE LEARNING CONTENT DEVELOPMENT |
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Author(s):
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Yasemin Bayyurt, Nur Baak Karata |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-66-3 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2012 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Needs-analysis, mobile learning, vocational language learning needs. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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242 |
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Last Page:
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246 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Since the 1970s, language learning needs along learner-based lines have been of primary interest for many curriculum designers or language programme developers (Munby, 1978; Brown, 2009). The present paper seeks analysis of 85 tourism vocational high school students perceptions of needs for English language learning. It also addresses their real wants and lacks substantiating on a theoretical framework by Dudley-Evans and St. John (1998). Through a multi-layered needs-analysis, it purports to create an appropriate and stimulating mobile language learning platform whereby their positive attitudes, language proficiency and technological literacy will be boosted in lieu of the traditional time-and-place constrained learning practices. Within the study, students internal subjective needs were determined by questionnaires while hotel managers/academics/teachers views on students objective needs were explored through semi-structured interviews. The results underscore that the students vocational language needs remarkably overshadow the other types of needs per se. Under these circumstances, the findings thrust the vitality of needs-analysis into the preparation of mobile language learning modules. |
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