Yasushige ISHIKAWA    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Professor
Date	2011/03/10
Presentation Theme	HELPING STUDENTS PREPARE FOR TOEIC TESTS: MOBILE ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING PRACTICES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-REGULATED LEARNING SKILLS
Conference	IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2011
Promoters	International Association for Development of the Information Society
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Venue	Avila, Spain
Publisher and common publisher	Mutsumi Kondo, Yasushige Ishikawa, Craig Smith, Kishio Sakamoto, Hidenori Shimomura, Norihisa Wada
Details	A MALL learning module was developed for use in conjunction with an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course for first-year university students. A Nintendo DS mobile device and its software called ‘DS More Training for the TOEIC Listening and Reading Tests’ were used to deliver a learning module. The success of MALL may depend on whether students can engage in self-regulated learning (SRL), a type of self-study in which students take responsibility for making, carrying out and evaluating strategic learning plans. It was concluded that the Nintendo DS mobile device and the learning module fostered self-study practices in terms of time spent on learning tasks, levels of satisfaction derived from the tasks, and self-measured achievement. SRL, in terms of the specificity of the goals, the customized creation of learning tasks and its in-class application, was a prominent feature of the self-study which occurred with students in MALL courses.