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    90 Mobile Learning Modern Language Activities
    90 Mobile Learning Modern Language Activities
    90 Mobile Learning Modern Language Activities
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    90 Mobile Learning Modern Language Activities

    By Harry Grover Tuttle

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    Use this book to help improve your students’ modern language communication and culture awareness through mobile learning tools and apps. Engage your students in in-class and out-of-class learning in fourteen different categories of mobile learning (mobile pictures,internet search, internet image search,timer, poll and survey,QR code, voice and video recording, phone, video chat, media, apps, texting,twitter, Facebook, Wikis and Websites).
    Over 70% of these interactive mobile activities help develop your students' speaking skill; other language activities include listening, reading, writing and assessment.
    Have your students participate in authentic culture through these mobile activities.
    Easily integrate these classroom-ready mobile activities to promote more language communication

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarry Grover Tuttle
    Release dateMay 12, 2013
    ISBN9781301984572
    90 Mobile Learning Modern Language Activities
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    Harry Grover Tuttle

    BA,MS from SUNY at Oswego, Ed.D. from SUNY Buffalo (UB)Taught middle, high and college language courses

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      90 Mobile Learning Modern Language Activities - Harry Grover Tuttle

      90 Mobile Learning Modern Language Activities

      By Harry Grover Tuttle

      Copyright 2013 Harry Grover Tuttle

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      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Speaking

      Mobile Pictures

      Internet Search

      Internet Image Search

      Timer

      Poll and Survey

      QR Code

      Voice and Video Recording

      Phone

      Video Chat

      Media

      Apps

      Writing

      Texting

      Twitter

      Facebook

      Blog, Wiki or Website

      Reading

      Listening

      Assessment

      Conclusion

      Reference

      Annotated Apps/Websites

      About this Author

      Acknowledgments

      I wish to thank the educators who provided valuable feedback during the preparation of this e-book: Ken Hughes; Joellyn Tuttle; Alan Tuttle; Corine Carriero; Veronica Valiero; and Jeannie Brown. I also wish to thank my students who used mobile learning to improve their language skills. Eric Tuttle of Tuttle Creative created the cover.

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      Introduction

      This book focuses on improving students’ modern language communication and culture awareness through mobile learning. The activities in this book engage the students in actively using their new language for communication. This book shows how to promote students’ communication through various applications or apps. The emphasis is not on an app but on how the students improve their listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture through an app. Likewise, the students spend the majority of their time in these activities in developing their language skill, not in manipulating the app. About 70% of these mobile activities develop the speaking skill through mobile devices. Many activities involve two language skills.

      35% of the book's activities involve authentic cultural materials such as images, videos, news, etc. from the target language culture; students learn about daily culture while doing the language mobile learning activity. Students have the opportunity to read what native speakers write about a current topic and they can interact with native speakers through mobile devices. Modern language students access up-to-the-moment culture.

      The book contains fourteen mobile learning categories such as mobile pictures or surveys. Each category contains numerous modern language mobile learning activities. Teachers do not have to read these categories in any particular order. In addition, teachers can search this e-book for a specific skill such as writing. Likewise, teachers can search for a common thematic topic such as house to see numerous mobile learning activities that involve that topic. Since about 20% of the activities refer to a specific language example, teachers can search by language. However, any of these activities can be used in any language. Furthermore, teachers can search for culture since that term has been added to the activity's name.

      Teachers can read a modern language mobile learning activity and immediately begin to use it with their students. Each activity describes what the students do in their language learning with the mobile device. Students spend under five minutes on most of the activities. Teachers should feel free to modify any activity to better fit the language growth needs of their students. When modern language educators have high expectations, students rise up to that level.

      Mobile Learning and Devices

      Crompton (2012) define mobile learning as learning across multiple contexts, through social and content interactions, using personal electronic devices. Valarmathi (2011) renames mobile learning done to assist or enhance modern language as Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL).

      Although mobile devices cover a wide array of devices such as laptops, xBox, electronic book readers, audio players, pagers, smartphones, and tablets, not all devices provide the same educational mobile benefit for the students. Mobile devices must be Internet capable so that the students can search the Internet and access Internet resources. When mobile devices read QR (Quick Response) codes and allow the students to click on a link to get to an Internet resource quickly, students have more learning mobility. Likewise, when students record sound and video on their mobile device, they have a fuller learning experience. In addition, when students text or communicate in other ways, they gain additional resources for learning and demonstrating their learning. At present, the two best mobile devices are tablets and smartphones.

      Why Mobile Learning in the Modern Language Classroom?

      Students presently use mobile devices outside of school. They actively and willingly communicate with other people in a wide variety of ways. Modern language teachers will want their students to use their mobile devices to actively and willingly communicate with other people in the target language in a wide variety of ways. Once the students learn that they can put their mobile device on the school's wireless network and not incur any data cost, they become eager to communicate with others in the target language.

      Students who use mobile devices have access to modern language learning and assessment 24/7. They access class materials, use other language learning resources, and do language assessments at anytime and in any place. Students can learn and take assessments outside of the classroom. Students who do not lug a textbook to work or to sports practice do pull out their mobile device and do language work. Students who are waiting for their friends to arrive at their favorite hamburger restaurant use their mobile device to record a short one minute target language narration of their day at school. At home, students can take mini-quizzes on their mobile device to discover if they have carefully listened to an oral story.

      When students use a mobile device, they have access to up-to-the-moment culture in the target language area. In some cases, they actually see what is happening at this moment in the country. They read what target language people are texting right now about a current situation. They see pictures that were just taken. They hear

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