I received a minor in Japanese and lived in Japan for a couple of years. After doing some research and taking my own personal experiences into consideration, I feel that mobile apps are a good way of reinforcing some of the content of language learning. But it could never replace the F2F interaction. Non-verbal communication makes about 80% of all communication that occurs among people. This means that F2F is vital interaction for learning languages. Here is the website that I made for this project:
http://gavonwongetec612finalproject.weebly.com
I agree with many of the articles that we read discussing how teachers need to focus on showing the learners how to use the iPad to improve their education rather than discovering what the iPad can do. I agree that note taking is probably one of the most useful capabilities of the iPad. I see so many individuals use it for that purpose.
Check out this app for language learning: Speaking Pal
Gavon,
ReplyDeleteThat's a really interesting app. I can see how this could be very useful especially in the sales industry for second languages, where there are commonly used phrases to use with customers. Very cool app I'll have to download it and try it out.
Ross