- Date:
- 6 March 2009 (Friday)
- Time:
- 16:40 - 17:00
- Venue:
- Room 204, 2/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
- Presentation Format:
- Paper
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
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Using PDAs to support vocabulary learning in higher education
SONG, Yanjie
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Abstract
In higher education literature, no in-depth qualitative studies have been identified to investigate the value of using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to support students’ incidental vocabulary learning encountered in academic studies. This one-year multiple-case study investigated undergraduate students’ dictionary and other uses of PDAs to enhance their incidental vocabulary learning in an English-medium university. The research findings show that the students made a variety of uses of PDAs to improve their vocabulary learning in the course of academic studies. The research results indicate that PDAs can be used in more flexible, novel and extended ways for English as a foreign language (EFL) vocabulary teaching and learning in both informal and informal learning environments in higher education.
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