Cell phones in the L2 classroom: Thumbs up to SMS A literature review, with implications for SLA pedagogy

Proceedings - 2006 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology, ICHIT 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 127-134

  Meurant, Robert C ^a  

^a Hyejeon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CELLPHONES; CLASSROOM INTERACTIVITY; WIRELESS NETWORKED MOBILE COMPUTERS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247258441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHIT.2006.253476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. The BlackBerry 8700g is a quad band phone designed for global roaming in 170 countries for voice and 90 countries for data. With BlackBerry push technology, email does not need to be retrieved, as BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network. Support is built-in for viewing email attachments in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, and PDF formats. The SMS message display is threaded, so one can readily scroll down to view an entire conversation. With Phone; Email; SMS; Web browser; Full QWERTY keyboard; etc.
2. Warschauer, M., Laptops and Literacy, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association San Francisco, California, April 2006, (cited by permission of the author).
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