Shona Whyte:
The October issue of Language Teaching is open to view and download PDFs during the month of September.
Articles include:
English for Business Communication
Vijay K. Bhatia and Stephen Bremner
Written corrective feedback in second language acquisition and writing studies
Dana R. Ferris
Our statistical intuitions may be misleading us: Why we need robust statistics
Jenifer Larson-Hall
Raising teachers' awareness of corpora
Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
Review of recent applied linguistics research in Finland and Sweden, with specific reference to foreign language learning and teaching Håkan Ringbom
National Standards: Research into practice
Eileen W. Glisan
Symposium: The contexualization of teaching and learning English as an international language
Yuan-Shan Chen
Symposium: (Dis)ordered processes of globalization: Policing and voicing language identities
Gao Yihong and Jan Blommaert and Sjaak Kroon
Symposium: Dynamic systems/Complexity theory as a new approach to second language development
Marjolijn Verspoor
Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization.
As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. For 2013, the focus is on a variety of challenges, from how learners access content to how the idea of a “curriculum” is defined.
Technology like tablets PCs, apps, and access to broadband internet are lubricating the shift to mobile learning, but a truly immersive mobile learning environment goes beyond the tools for learning to the lives and communities valued by each individual learner.