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A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Learning Languages with Mobile Devices

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New Horizons in Web Based Learning (ICWL 2014)

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Language learning has undergone rapid changes over the past several years from computer-assisted learning to more recently, mobile devices. Mobile devices have become useful learning tools that can potentially be applied in both various settings. This study adopted 44 peer-reviewed journal articles published between from 1993 to 2013 to demonstrate that mobile assisted language instruction provided meaningful average improvement with an overall mean effect size of 0.54. The current analyses revealed few statistically significant findings when applied into some moderators.

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  1. Aim for the Top University Project Office, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yi-Shian Lee

  2. Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yao-Ting Sung

  3. Department of Information and Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Kuo-En Chang

  4. Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Tzu-Chien Liu

  5. Research Center for Psychological and Educational Testing, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Wei-Cheng Chen

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  1. IMC AG, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Yiwei Cao

  2. Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Terje Väljataga

  3. Department of Computer Science, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan, Hong Kong SAR

    Jeff K.T. Tang

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Howard Leung

  5. Institute of Informatics, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mart Laanpere

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Lee, YS., Sung, YT., Chang, KE., Liu, TC., Chen, WC. (2014). A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Learning Languages with Mobile Devices. In: Cao, Y., Väljataga, T., Tang, J., Leung, H., Laanpere, M. (eds) New Horizons in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13296-9_12

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