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Mobile-Assisted Model of Teaching and Learning English for IT Students

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The paper introduces the model of hybrid flexible model of teaching/learning English for students of Informatics-related study programmes. Based on the theoretical feedback the model includes the traditional face-to-face lessons, work in the online course and autonomous activities available through mobile devices. For the purpose of efficient use of the model, a survey on mobile devices availability and their use was conducted in the group of 312 students of the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove. After the three-month exploitation of the model students’ feedback was collected. Finally, several recommendations for designing the mobile-assisted (language) learning are provided.

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The paper is supported by the IGA project Didactic aspects of Blackboard Mobile Learn implementation into instruction at FIM.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Ivana Simonova & Petra Poulova

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  3. Iwate Prefectural University, Takizawa, Japan

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  4. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Simonova, I., Poulova, P. (2016). Mobile-Assisted Model of Teaching and Learning English for IT Students. In: Nguyen, N.T., Trawiński, B., Fujita, H., Hong, TP. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9622. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49390-8_33

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