a collaborative mobile learning system to facilitate foreign language learning and assessment...

A Collaborative Mobile Learning System to Facilitate Foreign Language Learning and

Assessment Processes

Manuel Palomo-DuarteAnke Berns

José-Luis Isla-Montes Juan-Manuel Dodero

Owayss Kabtoul

Contents

1.Introduction

2.Goals

3.Design

4.Case study

5.Preliminary results

6.Conclusions

Introduction

● Game successfully used for 5 years in a A1.1 level German language course at the University of Cadiz:– Each student has her own agenda

– She must record different activities in her agenda

– Activities have to be arranged jointly with other classmates

– Students interact by writing and sending short messages on small pieces of paper

Goals

● Can we improve this game with ITC?– Students' identities are anonymized

– Misunderstandings are automatically detected

– Scales for large groups

– Supervisors can monitor the process

– Can be used in class or out of class

DesignGroup and Task

settings

MonitorizationInteraction analysis

Chat interaction Appointments recorded in

the calendar

Anonymized chatAppointments checked among

calendars

Terminkalender server

Teacherapp

Studentapp

Teacher App

● Define tasks● Create groups● Add users to groups

Student App

Case study

● Students played the game 3 times (1 hour each game) during 5 weeks– Experimental group (app)

– Control group (paper version)

● Data collected– 1 pre-test and 4 post-tests

– TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) questionnaire

Preliminary results

Conclusions

● The game already worked well, but was enhanced:– Supervisors can monitor the learning process

● Anonymity => Communication solely in the target language

– Misunderstandings are checked

– Scales for large groups

● Future work:– Deeper analysis of the information:

● quantitative and qualitative interaction ● Behavioural patterns● Assessing specific competences

– Extend the game: unexpected restrictions during the game

This work has been funded by the Andalusian Government under the University of Cadiz programme for Researching and Innovation in Education under project (sol 201500054163 tra).

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https://github.com/owayss/Terminkalender