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Smartphone-based learning in the Japanese ESL classroom : a case study report /
Mobile Assisted Learning emerged from Computer Assisted Learning, with researchers extending computer-based activities to mobile platforms, but differs from the latter in many ways. First, it is obviously mobile, but, second, smartphones have converged many features and software that were previously...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introductory Note; Chapter One; Context and Rationale; Consumer-Friendly Costs and Specifications; Historical Background of Research Project; Cell phone research; Preliminary cell phone research with seven participants; Research Question; Methodology; Scope of the Study; Book Overview; Chapter Two; MALL Research; Investing in Mobile Technology; Cell phone technology; Mobile technology; Cell phones in context; Cell Phone Literature Review; Japan-based cell phone research; Cell Phone-Based Research Constraints; New Cell Phone Features
- New Foci
- Cell phone photo camera featureCell phone video recording feature; Video production; Literature on filming activities; Cell Phone Video Production; The Japanese Language Learner; Curriculum Design; Examples of syllabus design consideration; Review of the Literature on Learning and Teaching Methodology; Language learning; Language learning strategies; Communicative language teaching; TIP 4 communicative language teaching; Conclusion; Chapter Three; Historical perspective; Methodological and case study challenges; This case study's structure; Type of case study design selected
- Data collection processGeneralizability; Validity; Construct validity; Internal validity; External validity; Reliability; Reporting bias; Data collection method; The researcher's background; Researcher/facilitator; Sampling; ICT in education and gender differences; Ethics and research approval; Confidentiality; Chapter Four; Introduction; Review of the limitations emerging in the literature; Review of methodology in the literature; Timeline; Sample; Participants; Technology; Task; Teacher guidance; Testing; Research methods; Research methodology; Collecting data from EFL speakers
- Contributions from prior researchData collection strategy; In-class video; Computer-based survey; Cell phone video production; Pre-intervention; Intervention
- theme-based task; Word count evidence; Post-intervention; Weekly diary; Question 4
- Strategies to write script; Question 5
- Strategies to remember speech; Question 6
- Strategies to improve speech; Question 7
- Errors identified; Interviews and observations; Observation; Interview; Summary; Post-Intervention survey; Final cell phone video performance; In-class video recording; Final computer-based survey; Summary; Chapter Five
- ContextThe rationale; Higher education in Japan; The university; Sendai; Telecommunication; Future of communication and the internet; Review of data analysis methods selected in literature; Data analysis process; Putting the information into different arrays; Making a matrix of categories and placing the evidence; Tabulating the frequency of different events; Putting information in chronological order or using some other temporal scheme; Examining the complexity of such tabulations by calculating second-order numbers such as means and variances; Statistical method; Descriptive statistics