Personalized and Contextualized Language Learning: Choose when, Where and What

Mobile and ubiquitous learning facilitates language learners to continue their learning process outside the formal classroom, when and where they desire. While more and more learning resources are accessible via a mobile device, there is a challenge in providing access to appropriate personalized learning resources. This paper describes the PALLAS system which enables real life language learning scenarios by providing personalized and contextualized access to learning resources via a mobile device. The support provided to the learner includes tasks that are personalized and contextualized and tasks that are set by the teacher. Access to learning resources through integration with a Content Management System is also provided. An evaluation framework for mobile language learning systems and an evaluation of the system by three language teachers are included. The main contribution of this work is personalized and contextualized learning resources, where the resources are composed of a variety of sources. Some of the topics addressed in this paper focussed on personalization appears in (Petersen & Markiewicz, 2008).

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