| Variant title |
Smartphone-based learning in the Japanese English as a second language classroom |
| Contents |
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 |
| Contents |
Cell phone photo camera feature; Cell 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 |
| Contents |
Data collection process, Generalizability; 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 |
| Contents |
Contributions from prior research, Data 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 |
| Contents |
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 |
| Abstract |
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 accessible through a range of digital tools. Thirdly, Mobile Assisted Learning allows interaction with social media.Educators are well-advised to consider smartphone video-based learning and to understand the many possibilities it affords. This book provides an account of the integration of smartph. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-328). |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gromik, Nicolas. Smartphone-based learning in the Japanese ESL classroom. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443816930 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781443893596 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1443893595 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 9781443893596 Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
