Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Mobile Phones: A New Language-learning Device?

More and more people are carrying cell phones around the world, and now companies are trying to turn them into a new tool for learning English or other languages. However, whenever considering the potential of such tools, you have to ask yourself if the technology can be used in a sound, pedagogical way. In other words, just because people have cell phones and we can put audio on them, can people think of good, effective ways to learn a language through them? Are companies just trying to increase their profits, or are they truly concerned about end users: students and teachers. Do you have any opinion on this topic? Please share your ideas.

Randall

6 comments:

  1. I think learning English by cell phone is a good ieda. With this new tool, I- a person who used English not good- can learn English everywhere and everytime.
    Learing by cell phone will help learner impove their communication skills. With myself, I'm afraid of communicate with foreigner through phone because I can't undertand what they said, I can't guess beacuse I don't see their gestures,their expression.
    I learn English very badly so I can't express all my iedas. I will train writing harder so that I can exchange with you more and more. I would expect your help.

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  2. It's a good idea that use cell phone to learn English . But I think it must expends more money.

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  3. I think it is a good device to learning english. My oral and listening skills is very poor, because I never use above skills on the daily life. Therefore, people using the cell phone to learn english is great, and also I think that is useful and turly concered us.

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  4. ı think it is a goog idea. because we have got cell phone everywereand everytime. wecan study using the time

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  5. I think that is a good idea. In this way, I can practice my english in free time at everywhere.

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  6. to me its a good way to learn things which are new for certain people and they can learn and implement quickly what they are learning currently

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Thanks for posting a comment. I appreciate your interesting in sharing your ideas.

Best,

Randall

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