Abstract
More than 20 years ago, task-based language teaching and learning was designed as an approach for adult foreign language learners to strongly relate instrucional with actual personal environments. Almost at the same time, mobile devices started to become popular in ways of communication. Today, smartphones or tablet PCs as further developments are used for various purposes even in the field of education. Using mobile devices in the foreign language classroom basically means using authentic materials in authentic interaction, continuous (meta-)reflexion of the learning process, self and peer evaluation, connecting ´school knowledge´ to the outside world (mobile learning), a differentiating process which again leads towards learner autonomy. In this discussion the presenter would like to show innovative scenarios for the implementation of mobile devices in foreign language teaching settings following a German model of task-based language teaching. This instructional model allows for authentic language use and competence-oriented teaching and learning in varying stages of experience both for the learner and the teacher. However, it will also be illustrated and discussed with the audience what pitfalls might occur and how to avoid them in order to provide an effective use of modern media. The participants will be engaged in discussing and sharing their personal experiences using mobile devices in their language classrooms and hopefully leave the roundtable with new ideas, methods and incentives and a structured model for an easy-to-use implementation of mobile devices in foreign language teaching and learning.
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