A Design of Mobile Application for English Learning

Author

Chi, Chen-Chung ; Kuo, Chin-Hwa ; Lin, Kuo-Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of CSIE, Tamkang Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

27-30 March 2012

Firstpage

238

Lastpage

241

Abstract

Learners can listen to music and read the synchronous lyrics using this mobile music playing application. The proposed system will make questions that correspond to lyrics for EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners studying. This approach focuses on retrieving verb-noun collocations and making appropriate questions automatically. BNC (British National Corpus) has been chosen to calculate mutual information to get the correct collocations, and the synset of Word Net has been used to make wrong candidates which people often make mistakes for using collocations. Therefore the learner can study anytime, anywhere by using mobile devices, proposed mobile application, lyrics reading and music listening.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; information retrieval; mobile computing; music; natural languages; BNC; British National Corpus; EFL learner; English as foreign language; English learning; WordNet synset; mobile device; mobile music playing application; music listening; synchronous lyrics reading; verb-noun collocation retrieval; Databases; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multimedia communication; Streaming media; Lyrics; Mobile Learning; Mutual Information;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (WMUTE), 2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0884-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMUTE.2012.59

Filename

6185039