1. The Mobile Language Learning
Antwerpen/Copenhagen
1 December 2009
Lene Rybner
leryb@vejle.dk

2. About me and previous projects
• VDML – http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/vdml/resources/showcase/index.html
• Stella - www.eulanguages.net og http://www.minerva-stella.info/
• Grammarexplorer – www.grammarexplorer.com
• Dansk på arbejdspladsen – wwww.dril.dk/dpa og /
• Medics on the Move – www.medicsmove.org/project.html
• Det mobile Sproglab – www.dansk.nu
• Consultant at UNI-C – www.uni-c.dk

3. Behaviouristic e-learning model

4. Cognitive e-learning model

5. Constructivistic e-learning model

6. Behavioristic/ Cognitive Sociocognitive/c
Structurel constructivistic
What is the Make sure there Make sure there is Make sure there
primary role of are an unlimited a linguistic input are alternative
the computer? number of drill, and analytical contexts for social
teacher exercises and interaction; give
explanations and tasks. access to existing
correcting discourse
feedback. environments and
create new ones.
Kern and Warschauer (13, 2000)

7. Communicative competence

8. Danish at the Workplace
• Pilot that were investigating the relationship
between mobile and stationary technology.
• The stationary computer functions as a
mothership, while the mobile unit functions as
an fighter plane or/and observing satelite
• The mobile is an ethnografic tool and ressource
bank
• www.dril.dk/dpa

10. The mobile language Lab – www.dansk.nu
• using mobile technology to create a linke
between own and language learning life
• 10 model conversations from every day life
• knowledge about conversations
• analytical tools
• practical advice and tips
• archive
• links

11. The mobile language lab 2
• Analytical (transscription, concordance
http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/,
grammar in relation to a pragmatic
interpretation)
• Interpretation
• Internalisation – other conversation
situations
• Perspectivation – own recordings

13. Online tools we use
• CSTs automatisk grammatiske analyseredskab -
http://www.cst.dk/online/pos_tagger/index.html
• Hotpotatoes - http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
• Concordance -
http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/
• Media converter (from mobile to computer) -
http://www.miksoft.net/
• Moviemaker – Windows Moviemaker

14. Medics on the Move
• Leonardo project with partners from Belgium,
Sweden, UK, Germany and Denmark
• Wiki-media-learning
• Conversation tool for foreign doctors working in
these countries (in DK for Polish Doctors)
• Word corpus based on knowledge share – like
Youtube, Wikipedia, and Termshare
http://www.asb.dk/research/centresteams/centre
s/kcl/produkter/termshare.aspx

16. Other uses of the mobile phone in teaching
• Sms-stories
• Students make films/stories
• Students take pictures
• Student record themselves –
monologue/dialogue

17. Dictionaries
Comercial dictionaries
http://www.mobilordbog.dk/index.html
http://slovoed.com/
Projects
http://mobidic.dk/

18. Language applications
• http://judybrown.com/docs/mltools.pdf
• http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
• http://www.it’slearning.com

19. Links to other learning uses …
• http://www.handheldlearning2009.com/
• http://www.learninginhand.com/
• http://www.olliebray.com/

20. Questions to consider …
• Is it important that there is a connection between mobile and
stationary technology? Why – why not?
• Which kind of teaching and materiale works well on the (mobile)
technology? Why – why not?
• Are some target groups better than others? Why – Why not?
• How do we imagine using (mobile) technology in language
teaching? How will learners use it? Are teachers interested in doing
this?
• Which effect does (mobile) technology have on the acquisition? Are
we/our students learning better and/or quicker? Is there a need?
• How are teachers going to use and yet take into account that
learning, information seeking and receiving and work is not limited
to a specific time period, but can and does take place all the time?
What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages?
• NOTABENE – how will (mobile) technology influence the teachers
work? How will they organise their teaching and work flow?