mobile warming: melting the barriers to language learning with mobile devices

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Mobile Warming: Melting the Barriers to Language Learning with Mobile

Devices

Marsha ChanProfessor at Mission College, California

and President of Sunburst Media

Apps for Aural and Oral Language Development

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Selected Mobile Apps

• Youtube (Android, iOS) • English Accent Coach• Anytune slow downing app• biNu + feature phone = smart phone

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Youtube• Find videos and channels • Subscribe to favorite channels• In a playlist use “play all” for sequential

learning• Watch a video while searching for the next

one• Download in Google Play & iTunes Stores,

or use in a browser

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www.youtube.com/user/bbclearningenglish

www.youtube.com/user/BritishCouncilLE

www.youtube.com/user/podEnglish

www.youtube.com/user/realenglish1

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www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish

www.youtube.com/user/rachelsenglish

www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL

www.youtube.com/user/PronunciationDoctor

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English Accent Coach• Train the brain to recognize new sounds and

provide the basis for improved pronunciation of North American vowels and consonants.

• Browser-based • iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Apps (Practice, Games,

Results)• EAC Vowels 1: Listen, identify from large database

of sounds, words, speakers• EAC Echo: Listen, identify touch a colored vowel

button, repeat

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http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/eac-vowels-1/id489219203?mt=8

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http://itunes.apple.com/ca/

app/eac-echo/id538790741?mt=8

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AnytuneMusic practice app for singers, dancers and musicians

• iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch: Free, 1.99, 3.99, 4.99 versions

• App slows down music BPM without changing pitch.

• Use Anytune to slow down and practice speech.

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Step-It-Up Interval Trainer Sound + Lyrics/Text• Visualize the sound of a song or speech• Practice at own pace by adjusting tempo.• Mark and loop song sections for repeated

practice of selected phrases.• Use Step-It-Up Interval Trainer to increase

tempo and develop fluency

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biNu

• App gives basic mobile feature phones fast, cheap and easy access to Internet services and apps

• Use in browser: www.binu.com/apps-cloud/emulator

http://www.binu.com

m.binu.com/ae

www..americanenglish.state.gov

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Marsha’s TESOL 2014 presentations

• Mobile Warming: Melting the Barriers to Language Learning with Mobile Devices. Electronic Village Hot Topic, with Susan Gaer and Sandy Wagner (Thursday, 8:00-9:15 am, Electronic Village)

• Mobile Devices - ELT for the Next Generation. Electronic Village Mini-workshop, with Susan Gaer (Thursday 12:30-1:50 pm, Electronic Village)

• English Language Software for the Next Generation: Sustaining Learners' Interest (Friday 3:00-3:45 pm, E141)

• Exploring and Promoting the Melody of Spoken English (Saturday 11:30-12:15 pm, B113)

• Pronunciation Games and Playful Activities to Promote Communication (Saturday 2:00-2:45, OB201)

Mobile Devices - ELT for the Next Generation. Electronic Village Mini-workshop, with Susan Gaer

(Thursday 12:30-1:50 pm, Electronic Village)