- Mobile phones are ubiquitous devices that allow widespread access to the internet and are changing people's habits. - Teachers can use mobile phones in the classroom to enhance motivation through activities like having students take photos, record audio, and create silent movies using the devices. - These activities encourage speaking practice, negotiation of meaning, and collaborative learning through visual, aural and kinesthetic modes. They also use students' real-life mobile devices. - Mobile phones can foster learner autonomy outside the classroom if teachers help students identify language learning apps and resources to use independently on their own devices.

1. Mobile phones on!
Enhancing motivation through M-Learning
Cecilia Cicolini

2. Mobile phones and mobile
applications. Your views

3. DISRUPTIVE

4. UBIQUITOUS

5. Mobile phones are allowing widespread
access to the Internet

6. Mobile phones are changing habits.

12. Mobile phones on!
How many people have got mobile
phones?
How many people have got basic
phones? Smartphones?
What do you do with your mobile phone?
What problems do mobile phones cause
in your classroom?

14. They cost less. They cost more. Internet-
enabled.
Cameras, Cameras and Email, social
sometimes video recorders. networks.
video recorders.
Phone calls and Third-party
Phone calls and
SMS. software (apps).
SMS.

15. Smartphones vs Basic Phones

17. How can we use
mobile phones in
the class?

20. How does Chris make use of the pictures?
Why does he consider these activities motivating?
How does he use audio recorders?

21. A few more activities…

22. Mobile Phone Tour

23. My Diary: Future
Plans

24. Phone Camera: My
Photos

25. Close-ups

26. Close-ups

27. Close-ups

28. Close-ups

29. Close-ups

30. Silent Movies

31. How to play my
mobile phone game.

32. Recording
Interviews

33. Why these
activities?
They encourage speaking.
 Negotiation of meaning.
 Visual / Aural / Kinesthetic.
 Realia
They promote groupwork, collaborative
learning, learning by doing.
 New vocabulary.
Authentic language.

36. Post interesting links with
ELT content for your
students.
Source: David Read’s blog: http://mobileesl.blogspot.com.ar/2010/03/how-to-use-twitter-with-esl-group.html

37. Vocabulary or grammar
questions to students.

38. Get students to share new
language.
Class notices, homework, etc.
Create a private group.

39. Class notices, homework, etc.
Create a private group.
www.grouptweet.com

40. Mobile Apps used spontaneously by
students.
To look up words in the dictionary.
To record new vocabulary in Mywordbook.
Social networks (Facebook, Twitter) to
communicate in English.
• English as a lingua franca to communicate with
friends.

41. Mobile apps used spontaneously by
students.
Coffee table mobile browsers while
watching TV.
Apps to kill time.
To listen to the radio and podcasts
to watch youtube videos, etc.

42. Apps

43. Learner Autonomy
Students take Autonomous
Ability to take responsibility for learning – more
charge of one’s their own learning, effective than non-
own learning. rather than depend autonomous
on the teacher. learning.
Benson & Voller 1997

44. Learner Autonomy
Teacher becomes
Autonomy can be Technology can be
less of an instructor
fostered in the used for fostering
and more of a
classroom (Harmer autonomy (Benson
facilitator of
2007). 2001)
learning.

45. How to encourage learners to use
m-learning outside the classroom
1. Find out what devices they have and what apps they use. Do they use any
device for language learning?
2. In groups, get them to discuss how they could use their mobile phones for
learning English (language apps and games, dictionaries, podcasts, books
and magazines in English, etc.)
3. Get them to decide on one or two applications to try out for the following
class.
4. Get learners to report in class about their experience. Ask them to try out a
new one for the following class.
Some students will be more enthusiastic than others. Enthusiasm may be
contagious or not.
Adapted from Nicky Hockly’s blog: http://www.emoderationskills.com/?p=151

46. Learner Autonomy
You cannot teach a
man anything, you can
only help him to find
it within himself.
Galileo Galilei

47. http://www.scoop.it/t/mobile-learning-for-language-teaching

48. Let’s keep on learning together!
https://sites.google.com/site/apibaetlsig/
www.apiba.org.ar

51. Cecilia Cicolini
cecilia.cicolini@gmail.com
www.learningpaths.com.ar