Academic podcasting and mobile assisted language learning applications and outcomes /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Facer, Betty Rose., Abdous, Mohammed.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2011.
• Subjects: Language and languages > Study and teaching > Computer network resources.; Language and languages > Computer-assisted instruction.; Second language acquisition.; Podcasting.; Academic Podcasting Requirements; Effective Language Learning Strategies; Instructional Benefits of Academic Podcasting; Mobile Assisted Language Learning; Podcasting for Language Learning; Restructuring the Foreign Language Classroom; Student and Teacher Attitudes toward Podcasting; Supplementing Podcasts with Visual Content; The Future of Podcasting; Web 2.0 for Second Language Learning and Instruction
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Shares innovative and pedagogically effective ways to improve foreign language education by identifying the instructional uses and benefits of academic podcasting technology and MALL in foreign language acquisition. These include instructional uses, students' perceived learning gains, how instr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Podcasting, past, present and future / Lara Lomicka, Gillian Lord
• 2. Four L2 learning objectives to guide podcast design / Claudia Fernández
• 3. Going beyond audio / Tony Gonzalez
• 4. Getting started / Maria Corbeil, Joseph Corbeil
• 5. Challenges of adopting web 2.0 and mobile 2.0 for language learning / Su-Ling Hsueh
• 6. Mobile-assisted language learning from the student perspective / Daryl Beres
• 7. Simulating immersion / Mario Martín, Elizabeth Beckmann
• 8. iStudy abroad / Kathryn Murphy-Judy
• 9. Crossing classroom settings and academic disciplines while crossing geographical boundaries / Giovanna Summerfield
• 10. A case study of using podcasts in ESL modules for Hong Kong pre-service teachers and its impact on their attitudes toward podcasting / Adrian Ting
• 11. Podcasts in four categories / Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov, Randall Sadler.