Guide for MALL. For self-directed language learners. Slide 1: broad stats for world languages. Slide 2: Contents. Slide 3, 4: Languapps. Slides 5-8: MALL basics Slide 9, 10: Polarity

2. Contents
1. Intro
1. SRT, how file sorting makes a list of your misses and
2. Voice Recognition Technology, will the calibration ever end?
3. What kind of input am I getting? Specialization or Generalist
4. Vocabulary
5. Negation
6. Grammar
7. reviews

3. Pragmatics, strategy and collaboration
practical advice to learn language on your phone
Software
❖ Duolingo
❖ Busuu
❖ Memrise
❖ Babbel
❖ Drops
❖ Simply
Learn
❖ Lyrics
Training
❖ Hindipod
101
❖ Mango
❖ Voxy
Features
❖ word banks
❖ grammar
instruction
❖ social
connections
❖ (VRT) Voice
Recognition
Technology
❖ (SRT) spaced
repetition
training
❖ Audio samples

4. reviews
Languapps features reviews and articles on
topic:
● Self-directed language learning
● Computer/Mobile-assisted language
learning
● Lexis (your vocabulary targets)
● Fluency vectors (mother tongue and
second language speaking ability)
● Language 2’s similarities to L1 and
methods to acquire pivotal language items.
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5. Each word, each grammar item, every speech sound you learn
improves your language skills. Most apps use activities like gap fills,
matching or multiple choice tasks to teach these language items.
SRT features on most apps to self-select language items that you’d
previously missed, so you see the language items you need to see.
Spaced Repetition Training (SRT)

6. Speak is an aptly named, pared down, dialogue partner that rates you.
Rosetta Stone asks if you’re adult male, adult female, or child to
calibrate. Busuu has dialogues and rates pronunciation accuracy w/ vrt
A paradox of Voice Recognition Technology
Reading for deep learning and learning from machines-
Both grammar analysis and sound analysis is done by neural mapping systems which digests a set of sample values, sounds, acceptable
sentences according to which reference the sample to an average that the computer “learns”. They’re generally successful at learning by
example how to compare your data to a mean average. This is a “black box” process so it it can’t really be measured or repeated. When the
algorithm analyzes sound formants, it either has to filter out pitch, or keep multiple data sets with which to calibrate your voice.
A paradox of Voice Recognition Technology...
... the wider the user base, the narrower the lexical...
...so vrt works with small groups of people
or small sets of language, but not with both,yet.

7. Duolingo has tons of languages, a pleasing design and loads of features. On the
other hand, the design and features are the mostly same for their 94 languages.
Some new apps like Drops, Memrise or Skritter specialize only in vocab while
Speak only grades your English pronunciation. Rare apps like Le Monde use
narration and culture to immerse you in a unique French learning experience.
Specialization or Generalist
Sometimes the same company
puts a different flag thumbnail
on app versions. Search ‘learn
Hindi’ feature Simply Learn
Hindi or Drops Hindi. Scroll a
bit more and you’ll find
Hindipod101 for unique Hindi
video lessons on your phone.

8. Your mobile makes a
perfect repeat & recall
device to learn vocab on
your downtime. Make the
most of it by choosing an
app what’s features you’ll
utilize. Cleveland State
language education
professors researched and
wrote about that in the
April 2019 issue of The
Reading Teacher and they
came up with this rubric.
(Northrop
2018)
Vocabulary

9. A bit about negative polarity
Negative polarity no, not, n’t, never have low semantic value, they only negate. any is a
determiner nouns for negs, questions and low importance
We can negate two nouns with one any. “I don’t want any liberals or conservatives at my
party”
Disapprove, misunderstand, uninvite, and retract are verbs prefixed with a negation.
How let is used and how take is sometime used
Let, allow and sometimes leave in sayings like leave it to me are verbs which’s meanings
tend to inaction, facilitating a course of events to unfold. Let me do it.
The 1st meaning of take is strongly transitive I took your shoes. Take without an object
means ‘take root’ or ‘take effect’. Why do you smell so bad, didn’t you shower at the gym?
Yes, but it didn’t take. This is an intransitive verb.
How does that sound? English allows
ellipses, ‘He don’t know nothin bout this, that, or the other thing; and more than two arguments can agree to the same
verb

10. CALL for grammar
Computer assisted language
learning (CALL) research was
done by grads at Columbia, of
students who study with apps or
programs to those who just go to
class.
Two groups (CALL and c-learning) go through
pretest, grammar lesson, and posttest. An interview
is conducted at the end of the experiment.
the CALL group -performs better in posttest -
has better future learning capabilities -yields
more interactions with other students -
generates more questions in class -
enjoys the grammar instruction more -
perceives the lesson to be more effective -
and likes the lesson better. (lu 2009)
Most language learning is done with
books. Maybe that changes quickly.
Dilbilgisi, -ni [di’lbilgisi] b. a. 1 Bir dilin işleyişini ve
sunduğu düzeni inceleyen, onun ses, sözcük yapısı,
anlam değişimeleri, tümce kuruluğu gibi öğelerini ele
alıp bunlarin kurallarını saptayan bilim. eş. gramer. 2
Bu kuralları öğreten ders ya da kitap. (Püsküllüoglü 2005)
gramer is
an English
loan word
in Turkish
Warning
Turkish
below