The next generation of language labs: Can mobiles help? A case study

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Highlights：

• Benefit from students' mobile phones as a mobile language learning lab.

• Develop a low-cost, cross-platform, user-friendly mobile language learning lab.

• Use Web technologies and APIs in developing mobile language learning lab.

• Evaluate the mobile language learning lab usability.

• Apply holistic test scenario, think aloud and interview sessions for evaluation.

摘要

•Benefit from students' mobile phones as a mobile language learning lab.•Develop a low-cost, cross-platform, user-friendly mobile language learning lab.•Use Web technologies and APIs in developing mobile language learning lab.•Evaluate the mobile language learning lab usability.•Apply holistic test scenario, think aloud and interview sessions for evaluation.

论文关键词：Language teaching,Mobile lab,Mobile assisted language learning,Cross-platform,Usability evaluation,Think-aloud protocol

论文评审过程：Received 9 July 2015, Revised 7 December 2015, Accepted 9 February 2016, Available online 18 February 2016, Version of Record 18 February 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.028