Learn why to use mobile learning in modern languages. See examples from listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. Focus on using mobile for language communication, not drill and practice.

1. Using Mobile Devices
in the Modern Language Classoom
Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed.D.
htuttlebs@gmail.com
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2. Why mobile?
Most students have and know how to use.
Students already use it for communication.
Mobile gives instant access to authentic
materials.
Mobile provides learning anywhere or anytime.

3. Why mobile: Personalize
Students use
mobile pictures
to show what
they did on the
weekend and
explain the
details to
another student.

4. Why mobile: Bring the Outside World in
Students use a
mobile picture
to show a real
dining room,
their own, and
to contrast it
with the dining
room of their
speaking
partner.

5. A sampling of mobile activities
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6. Listening
Students use their
mobile devices to listen
to weather reports from
various target language
countries and then
contrast the weather.
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7. Speaking
Students record on their
mobile device their daily
routine and narrate it as
they show it to their
partner.
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8. Reading
Students read sports
news on their mobile.
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9. Writing
Students use their mobile device to text additional
sentences to a story the teacher starts.
It's Saturday. I sleep late....
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10. Culture
Students use
a mobile
device to see
many
pictures of a
place, not
just the one
from the
textbook.

11. http://bit.ly/90mlact
Improve your students’ modern
language communication and
culture awareness through
mobile learning tools and apps.
Use these easy-to-integrate
activities to engage your
students in in-class and out-of-
class learning in fourteen
different categories of mobile
learning. Have them participate
in authentic culture through
these mobile activities.
Harry Grover Tuttle