Overview
- ies at various universities all include recommendations for other institutions on using state-of-the-art technologies in actual classes
- Introduces the history of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) in Japan to the international community of scholars
- As Japan was a pioneer of mobile Internet technologies, some of the world’s first applications of mobile devices to education are described
- Covers both theoretical aspects and the practical implementation of ubiquitous language learning technologies, including smartphones, iPads, podcasting, social media, blended learning, and flipped classroom approaches
- Documents case studies implementing emerging technologies in university classrooms and the curriculum for English as a Foreign Language
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Hiroyuki Obari is a Professor at the Aoyama Gakuin University College of Economics, and part-time Lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology graduate school and Waseda University Faculty of Law. He obtained his MA in TESOL from Columbia University and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tsukuba. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford in 1998-1999 and 2007-2008.
Takeshi Sato is an Associate Professor at the Division of Language and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He holds MA degrees in TESOL from Keio University and the Institute of Education (London). His academic interests include L2 vocabulary acquisition, computer & mobile-assisted language learning, and English as a Lingua Franca pedagogy. He has published articles in TESOL Quarterly, ReCALL, Asian EFL Journal, etc.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Implementing Mobile Language Learning Technologies in Japan
Authors: Steve McCarty, Hiroyuki Obari, Takeshi Sato
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2451-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2449-8Published: 13 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2451-1Published: 06 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 97
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Technology, Language Education