VISP: a MALL based app using audio description techniques to improve B1 EFL student's oral competence
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- Ana Ibáñez Moreno and Anna Vermeulen (UGent)
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- Abstract
- The last decade, mobile devices, defined as “any device that is small, autonomous and unobtrusive enough to accompany us in every moment” (Trifonova et al. 2004:3) are a familiar part of most teachers and students’ lives and their integration into learning and teaching is constantly increasing. In this contribution we concentrate on creating learning materials for mobile devices in order to suit the current ‘On Demand Generation’ that wants “anything, anywhere at anytime” (Caudron 2011: 25.). In order to explore the benefits of mobile learning away from the traditional classroom, we designed an app named VISP (VIdeos for SPeaking), which is available in Android operating systems. VISP consists of using audio description (AD) techniques to practice oral language skills. We present here the methodological steps followed in the design of VISP, as well as the first qualitative data obtained, derived from applying it to two Spanish students of English as a foreign language (EFL).
- Keywords
- EFL, mobile phones, didactic tool, audio description (AD), app, MALL
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-7060940
- MLA
- Ibáñez Moreno, Ana, and Anna Vermeulen. “VISP: A MALL Based App Using Audio Description Techniques to Improve B1 EFL Student’s Oral Competence.” Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains : Practical Applications an Mobility, edited by E Martin-Monje et al., Routledge, 2016, pp. 266–76.
- APA
- Ibáñez Moreno, A., & Vermeulen, A. (2016). VISP: a MALL based app using audio description techniques to improve B1 EFL student’s oral competence. In E. Martin-Monje, I. Elorza, & B. García-Riaza (Eds.), Technology-enhanced language learning for specialized domains : practical applications an mobility (pp. 266–276). London, UK: Routledge.
- Chicago author-date
- Ibáñez Moreno, Ana, and Anna Vermeulen. 2016. “VISP: A MALL Based App Using Audio Description Techniques to Improve B1 EFL Student’s Oral Competence.” In Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains : Practical Applications an Mobility, edited by E Martin-Monje, I Elorza, and B García-Riaza, 266–76. London, UK: Routledge.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Ibáñez Moreno, Ana, and Anna Vermeulen. 2016. “VISP: A MALL Based App Using Audio Description Techniques to Improve B1 EFL Student’s Oral Competence.” In Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains : Practical Applications an Mobility, ed by. E Martin-Monje, I Elorza, and B García-Riaza, 266–276. London, UK: Routledge.
- Vancouver
- 1.Ibáñez Moreno A, Vermeulen A. VISP: a MALL based app using audio description techniques to improve B1 EFL student’s oral competence. In: Martin-Monje E, Elorza I, García-Riaza B, editors. Technology-enhanced language learning for specialized domains : practical applications an mobility. London, UK: Routledge; 2016. p. 266–76.
- IEEE
- [1]A. Ibáñez Moreno and A. Vermeulen, “VISP: a MALL based app using audio description techniques to improve B1 EFL student’s oral competence,” in Technology-enhanced language learning for specialized domains : practical applications an mobility, E. Martin-Monje, I. Elorza, and B. García-Riaza, Eds. London, UK: Routledge, 2016, pp. 266–276.
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