LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES: LEARNER AUTONOMY AND MOBILE-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING

Abstract

This new book from Emerald Group Publishing Ltd contains ten chapters as follows: (1) Language learning defined by time and place: A framework for next generation designs by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme; (2) Towards a rationale for mobile learning by Frank Farmer and María Elena Llaven Nucamendi; (3) Language learning on the move: A review of mobile blogging tasks and their potential by Anna Comas-Quinn and Raquel Mardomingo; (4) Learning on location with AMI: The potentials and dangers of mobile gaming for language learning by David Robinson; (5) Mobile learning in action: Towards a formulaic approach to second language acquisition by Yanling Su Jones; (6) Mobile technology and student autonomy in oral skill acquisition by Reima Al-Jarf;  (7) Mobile technology, collaborative reading, and elaborative feedback by Philip Murphy, David Bollen, and Craig Langdon; (8) Bringing the world into the institution: Mobile intercultural learning for staff and students by David M. Palfreyman; (9) Workplace mobile-assisted second language learning: Designing for learner generated authenticity by Lisa Gjedde and Mads Bo-Kristensen; (10) Learning Greenlandic by SMS: The potentials of text messages support for second language learners in Greenland by Barfuss Cathrine Ruge.