Academic Podcasting and Mobile Assisted Language Learning: Applications and Outcomes

By Betty Rose Facer

The use of Academic Podcasting Technology and MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) is reshaping teaching and learning by supporting, expanding, and enhancing course content, learning activities, and teacher-student interactions. Academic Podcasting and Mobile Assisted Language Learning: Applications and Outcomes 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 instructors can use/have used the technology (successes and challenges), study abroad experiences with the technology, pedagogical impact, and economic perspectives on its use.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609601416
• ISBN13: 9781609601416
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Igi Global Scientific Publishing
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 11.0"