Learners’ expectations and needs: some practical clues for designing foreign language apps
- Anke Berns 1
- Manuel Palomo-Duarte 1
- Alicia Guerrero Garrido 1
- Mercedes Paez Piña 1
- 1 University of Cadiz, Cádiz, Spain
Editorial: Universidad de Tarragona and University if Antwerp
ISBN: 9789057284786
Año de publicación: 2015
Páginas: 116-123
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
Our paper aims to provide designers and teachers with some practical guidance on the development process and implementation of mobile apps for foreign language learning.This is done by providing the reader first, with some critical reflection on a number of key-issues related to the design of meaningful, enjoyable and useful learning tasks for MALL, taking into account both, its affordances as well as constraints. And second, by117 offering an analysis and evaluation of a recent experience, the authors made with the development of a foreign language app and its implementation in a compulsory German language course. The here described experience aims to underline the importance of an iterative development process (experimentation-evaluation-enhancement), in which learners are directly integrated, giving them a voice and bringing their comments, ideas and preferences into the development process itself.