Use of Smartphone Applications in English Language Learning—A Challenge for Foreign Language Education

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/9/3/179/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/9/3/179/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci9030179" target="_blank" >10.3390/educsci9030179</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Use of Smartphone Applications in English Language Learning—A Challenge for Foreign Language Education

Original language description

At present, hardly any younger person can imagine life without mobile technologies. They use them on a daily basis, including in language learning. Such learning supported with mobile devices is called mobile learning, which seems beneficial especially thanks to the unique features of mobile applications (e.g., interactivity, ubiquity, and portability) and teachers’ encouragement and feedback. The purpose of this review study is to explore original, peer-reviewed English studies from 2015 to April 2019 and to determine whether mobile applications used in the learning of English as a foreign language are beneficial and/or effective. The methods are based on a literature review of available sources found on the research topic in two acknowledged databases: Web of Science and Scopus. Altogether, 16 original journal studies on the research topic were detected. The results reveal that mobile learning is becoming a salient feature of education as it is a great opportunity for foreign language learning. Its key benefits are as follows: the enhancement of the learner’s cognitive capacity, the learner’s motivation to study in both formal and informal settings, the learner’s autonomy and confidence, as well as the promotion of personalized learning, helping low-achieving students to reach their study goals. Although mobile learning seems to be effective overall, it is desirable to design, plan and implement it with caution, according to students’ needs, and to deliver multiple language skills in authentic learning environments.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60201 - General language studies

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Education sciences

ISSN

2227-7102

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Volume 9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Issue 3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

"Article number 179"

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85070681860