Mobile and Personal Learning for Newcomers to a City

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.56040/agkh1717

A. Kukulska-Hulme

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Abstract

Growing numbers of newcomers arrive in cities across the globe as temporary visitors or for longer periods of time. They often face communication challenges and need to learn a new language or improve their knowledge quickly. The article considers the domain of language learning for social integration and inclusion, what it means to be a newcomer to a city, and the role of mobile technologies in advancing a more personal approach to language learning. Mobile learning research explores innovative and practical solutions to the specific challenges faced by newcomers, and it revives, develops or reinterprets pedagogical methods and underlying learning theories. To illustrate this, three research projects conducted at The Open University, UK, focusing on migrants’ learning with mobile apps, are presented and reflected upon. Mobile learning experiences deliberately designed for newcomers to a city can support them in everyday language learning and in their efforts to explore their new environment. The article includes suggestions as to what seems to be missing from current apps for newcomers. It considers relevant issues and future directions for the design of mobile apps and services for this diverse target group.

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城市新移民的移动学习和个人学习

越来越多的新移民作为临时访客或长期访客来到世界各地的城市。他们往往面临交流方面的挑战，需要快速学习一门新语言或提高语言知识。这篇文章探讨了语言学习对社会融合和包容的意义、新移民对城市的意义，以及移动技术在推动更加个性化的语言学习方法中的作用。移动学习研究针对新来者面临的具体挑战，探索创新和实用的解决方案，并恢复、发展或重新诠释教学方法和基本学习理论。为了说明这一点，我们介绍并反思了英国开放大学开展的三个研究项目，其重点是移民使用移动应用程序进行学习。特意为新移民设计的移动学习体验可以帮助他们进行日常语言学习和探索新环境。文章还就目前针对新移民的应用程序中似乎缺少的内容提出了建议。文章考虑了为这一不同目标群体设计移动应用程序和服务的相关问题和未来方向。

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Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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0.80

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审稿时长

40 weeks

期刊介绍： e-FLT is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Centre for Language Studies of the National University of Singapore. Its primary objective is to disseminate scholarly information on research and development in the field of Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Asia and beyond. It publishes articles and book reviews in English as well as in any of the following twelve languages taught at the Centre for Language Studies: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese. It will also welcome any information on upcoming academic conferences, seminars or symposiums as a service to its readers. It is unique in that it is multilingual and practises the policy of accepting and publishing articles in twelve different languages. There will be two issues of e-FLT a year, appearing in the months of June and December. e-FLT is published electronically in the Internet to allow it to reach a wider audience in Asia and the rest of the world, while keeping production costs to a minimum, making it possible to grant free access to the journal. e-FLT focuses primarily on – but is not restricted to – the following areas of inquiry and development in Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Teaching Methodologies Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design Materials Design Teacher Education and Professional Development Theories of Second Language Acquisition Theories of Second and Foreign Language Teaching Innovations/New Technologies in Language Teaching Linguistics Theories and Language Teaching.