Using Mobile Phone Technology in EFL Classes

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 featuring a skyline

This article explains how students can use their mobile phones to produce video projects and use English for meaningful communication. The author first explains what communicative competence is and why it is important. The author then discusses difficulties of putting principles of communicative language teaching into practice, which is the main rationale behind the author’s idea. Finally, the author describes four video projects and several activities based on mobile phone features.

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Individual Work; Pairwork and Groupwork
Author:
Suleyman Nihat Sad

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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 featuring a skyline

English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4

Chicago is the focus of the feature article and the basis of a lesson plan that provides practice in writing and reading postcards. This issue also includes articles on enhancing learning with mobile phone technology, VoIM-mediated cooperative tasks, and corpus-aided discovery. Additional articles d