Audiovisual reception and MALL: adapting technology to real needs

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Audiovisual Reception and MALL: Adapting Technology to Real NeedsNOA TALAVÁN

JOSÉ JAVIER ÁVILA-CABRERA

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED

Received: 4 June 2014 / Accepted: 9 November 2014ISSN: 1697-7467

ABSTRACT:

foreign language learning methodologies have most often been aimed at its assessment than

aimed at improving audiovisual reception through the use of video and audiovisual language

Keywords:

La recepción audiovisual y el aprendizaje móvil: Cubriendo necesidades con apoyo tec-nológico

RESUMEN:

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del uso del video y del lenguaje audiovisual partiendo de una serie de tareas estructuradas

Palabras clave:

1. INTRODUCTION

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the presentation of an innovative proposal involving the use a mobile application for the

2. THE NATURE OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION

2001:71) with the corresponding description in terms of levels and can-do statements: “Can

a very subjective mental process where a particular person builds the global meaning of an

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3. AUDIOVISUAL LANGUAGE

The use of video for language learning purposes has been largely discussed throughout

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The use of video in class entails the combination of verbal and non-verbal elements -

It should be noted that the language contained in most videos used in class is neither

As the power of audiovisual language lies in its perfect combination of spontaneous -

are easier than those that include meaning negotiation and so are a perfect start point for


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Friends Longman Grammar Corpus

-matographic language of 11 American movies contrasted with the Longman Spoken American Corpus

conversational components with others included in the British National Corpus

to be even more pedagogically appropriate than the one spontaneous conversation could

4. TEACHING AVR

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stening compre-hensi

be enhanced are the corresponding learning strategies that can help learners to develop this

et al

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accounted for the roles played by metacognitive strategies regarding listening comprehension

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It is impossible to close this section without commenting on the various modes of -

teachers and material developers have to decide on the assessment approach and the type

5. AUDIOVISUAL RECEPTION AND MOBILE ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING

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The gap between technology and pedagogy can and should be bridged by means of

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6. PROPOSAL OF A MALL APPLICATION TO DEVELOP AND ASSESS AVR

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proposal presented below attempts to help us cover this gap by designing a mobile app with

Friends


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Figure 1. VIOLIN welcome screen

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How about going to the cinema? / …and …to the theatre? /…you might want to try this / Let’s do this… / What about…?

teaching students how to predict information and select the appropriate cues that

Time to watch the clip

Time to watch the video again -

ples: yeah / go over / come on…

practice to try to understand the gist of the funniest situation/spot of


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-derstand the video:

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Attentive and interactive listening are not included here given the non-bidirectional

7. CONCLUSION

assumptions regarding the nature of listening comprehension and more recent approaches that

The vast number of resources available nowadays can help teachers and researchers

the traditional approaches that basically focused on the passive and isolated assessment of

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Acknowledgements

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