The document describes Situated Mobile Language Learning, a project that developed an app called Lingobee to support mobile language learning. [1] Lingobee allows users to collect language examples encountered in everyday life, annotate them, and share them within a community of other language learners through the app and website. [2] The app was designed through a participatory process with students and teachers to make language learning more authentic and relevant through incidental learning experiences outside the classroom. [3] Early trials found benefits but also issues to address regarding authoritativeness, integration into teaching, and preventing misuse.

1. Situated Mobile Language Learning
Marcus Winter
Lyn Pemberton
LLP 511776-LLP-1-2010-1-UK-KA3-KA3MP

2. Project partners:
 University of Brighton
 StudyGroup
 ROC van Amsterdam
 University of Molise
 Baltic Education Technology Institute
 Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
 Hungarian e-University Network
 Tokyo University of Agriculture and
LLP 511776-LLP-1-2010-1-UK-KA3-KA3MP Technology

3. Background
European Union: 27 member states
23 official languages
60+ minority languages
++ migrants from outside the EU
Large-scale programmes to promote linguistic competences and
cultural awareness: Erasmus - students
Comenius - teachers
Grundvig - migrants

4. Background
classroom real life situations
[1] Ex-post evaluation of Erasmus Mundus - Case Studies.
[http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/evalreports/education/2009/mundusannex_en.pdf]
[2] 2008 Study on the Impact of Erasmus on European Higher Education: Quality, Openness and Internationalisation
[http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc/publ/impact08sum.pdf]

5. Background
+ relevant
+ authentic
incidental learning
- passing
- isolated
Keiichi – media class
“Red-Top newspapers”

6. Background
collect & annotate
1
interesting or intriguing
found in everyday life

7. Background
pool finds with
2
other language learners
RSS & REST API

8. Lingobee

9. Participatory design

10. Participatory design
collecting & sharing → browsing & collecting & sharing
anonymous contributions → user profiles, attribution
tags → categories
wiki-style editing → commenting, multiple entries
audio recordings → text-to-speech
+ offline support
+ user groups
+ rating system
+ localisation

11. Lingobee mobile app

12. Lingobee website
http://simola.org/lingobee/

13. So far
 most suitable for advanced students
 needs to be super-usable
 phones need to belong to students
 mixed results for social media aspects
 teachers found ways to integrate into classroom
teaching and combine in- and outside class work
 issues of authoritativeness and misuse

14. Demo
1) Enable non-market
applications via
Settings > Applications
2) Download & install
3) Sign up on first use
Use one of the ... or download to your
demo phones... own Android phone

15. References
Demouy, V. and A. Kukulska-Hulme.(2010). On the spot: using mobile devices
for listening and speaking practice on a French language programme.
Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(3), pp.
217–232.
Kukulska-Hulme, A. & S. Bull (2009). Theory-based support for mobile
language learning: noticing and recording. International Journal of
Interactive Mobile Technologies, 3(2), pp. 12–18.
Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. (2009). A User Created Content
Approach to Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Advanced Language Learners.
Proceedings of mLearn 2009, Orlando, Florida, pp. 184-187.
Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & S. Fallahkhair. 2010. Collaborative Mobile
Knowledge Sharing for Language Learners. Journal of the Research Center
for Educational Technology, Vol 6, No 1 (2010)

16. Thanks
Questions?
marcus.winter@brighton.ac.uk
lyn.pemberton@brighton.ac.uk
http://simola.org