Using of Mobile Technologies in a Foreign Language Learning: Traditions' Development and Search of New Methodical Technologies
Umirov Artem, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (Russian Federation)
Abstract
Mobile technologies play a special role in modern society`s informatization o due to its ubiquity, comparative cheapness and high performance that is greatly increases every year.
Today the number of smartphone users exceeds 2 billion people i.e. just about every fourth man on Earth is using it. However not everyone is using it for educational purposes.
At the present stage of our society developing the huge potential of mobile technologies is not used in educational process in due measure. Mobile technologies are so universal that it is possible and necessary to construct all educational process around them.
In the article, the main attention is riveted on mobile technologies because they expand the list of interactive educational equipment, realizing a principle of a tiny interactive board. Incomparable advantage of mobile devices is that they always are near us, at hand, and educational process can proceed almost continuously and everywhere.
Foreign languages learning by means of mobile technologies has a number of advantages from which are distinguished availability, presentation, ease and, as a result, increasing interest at students. So, it is possible to draw a conclusion that mobile technologies are the most powerful means for foreign languages learning. Modern technologies allow keeping various foreign dictionaries, translators and evident tutorials in one device.
Evidently outdated methods of teaching which are: group audition in class, will be replaced in the nearest future by new methods based on specialized applications for mobile devices. Such applications contain the grammar trainers, the dictionaries, applications integrated with the website where it is possible to not only learn words, but also read, listen to texts and solve crossword puzzles.
Keywords |
mobile technologies, informational technologies, learning process, foreign languages, visual learning tools, specialized applications |