Using Mobile Devices in the Modern Language Classoom

Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed.D.htuttlebs@gmail.com

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Why mobile?

Most students have and know how to use.

Students already use it for communication.

Mobile gives instant access to authentic materials.

Mobile provides learning anywhere or anytime.

Why mobile: Personalize

Students use mobile pictures to show what they did on the weekend and explain the details to another student.

Why mobile: Bring the Outside World in

Students use a mobile picture to show a real dining room, their own, and to contrast it with the dining room of their speaking partner.

A sampling of mobile activities

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Listening

Students use their mobile devices to listen to weather reports from various target language countries and then contrast the weather.

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Speaking

Students record on their mobile device their daily routine and narrate it as they show it to their partner.

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Reading

Students read sports news on their mobile.

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WritingStudents use their mobile device to text additional sentences to a story the teacher starts.

It's Saturday. I sleep late....

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Culture

Students use a mobile device to see many pictures of a place, not just the one from the textbook.

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Improve your students’ modern language communication and culture awareness through mobile learning tools and apps. Use these easy-to-integrate activities to engage your students in in-class and out-of-class learning in fourteen different categories of mobile learning. Have them participate in authentic culture through these mobile activities.

Harry Grover Tuttle