Mobile microlearning as a framework for vocabulary learning with small content units on mobile devices¶
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Description¶
The article combines microlearning and mobile learning into a framework for language learning: microlearning is "learning with micro-content", small individual units, understood as "special moments or episodes of learning while dealing with specific tasks or content, but engaging in small but conscious steps". Mobile learning in a narrow sense means handheld technologies providing anytime, anywhere access; more broadly it concerns the ability to acquire knowledge for successful action in changing situations and contexts. The study applies this framework by using podcasts as mobile (micro) learning for lexicon acquisition, emphasising vocabulary learning instead of teaching.
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- Mobile devices or podcast delivery enabling use beyond the classroom, and small, self-contained content units
Constraints¶
- The article notes microlearning is not simply equated with informal and lifelong learning, and that teaching is currently too focused, citing Nation (2011)
Target Learners¶
- Beginning learners of Italian as an L3 in Austrian secondary school (first year)
Learning Goals¶
- Foreign language vocabulary (lexicon) acquisition in Italian
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Key Sources¶
- Unterrainer, Eva Maria. (2012). Mobile Learning in Foreign Language Learning: Podcasts and Lexicon Acquisition in the Elementary Instruction of Italian. In L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds.), CALL: Using, Learning, Knowing, EUROCALL Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 22-25 August 2012, Proceedings. https://research-publishing.net
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Mobile microlearning as a framework for vocabulary learning with small content units on mobile devices |
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The article combines microlearning and mobile learning into a framework for language learning: microlearning is "learning with micro-content", small individual units, understood as "special moments or episodes of lear... |
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