Mobile Assisted Language Learning Across Educational Contexts

This concise collection critically reflects on mobile assisted language learning research across educational stages, from early childhood through to university settings. //

The volume traces the development of MALL practices through researchers' and teachers’ efforts to make sense of the impact of mobile technologies on formal and informal second language learning and development. The chapters explore a range of topics around mobile learning design, implementation, and affordances across different educational and geographic contexts, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. In so doing, the book creates a broader conversation around the importance of continuity in the successful integration of MALL practices into L2 learning curricula across the educational lifespan. //

This book will appeal to students and scholars in applied linguistics and language teaching and learning, especially to those with a specific interest in mobile technologies.

Valentina Morgana is Adjunct Professor of English Linguistics in the Faculty of Language Sciences and Foreign Literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Her recent publications focused on mobile English language teaching and learning in secondary and higher education, and technology-mediated task-based language teaching.

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK, where she leads the Future Learning Research and Innovation Programme. She has published widely and co-edited the book Mobile Learning: The Next Generation (Routledge, 2016).