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III. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS, Konya, Turkey, 24 - 26 October 2019, pp.1, (Summary Text)
Being one
of the e-learning trends in recent years, microlearning seems to have some
potentials for younger people as more of them are trying to achieve learning
outcomes on the go. In collaboration with the location- and time-independent
nature of mobile learning and digital tools that support it, micro-learning
could enable learners to turn small bites of time to useful learning sessions.
However, the challenge is to be able to provide them with appropriate tools and
motivating e-learning content that aim to help learners to achieve the intended
learning outcomes. In this respect, a major focus of this paper is the basic
principles of microlearning and how they could be used in language instruction.
More specifically, it provides an overview of potential tools and strategies
that could be used to prepare microlearning sessions for EFL learners to help
them acquire learning objectives in three language areas (i.e., grammar,
vocabulary and pronunciation). It intends to build a bridge between current e-learning
tools and microlearning and to demonstrate the ways of applying the principles
of microlearning to EFL through such tools. It also discusses possible
challenges and suggests avenues of prospective research to address these
challenges.
Keywords: Microlearning, e-learning, digital learning tools,
language areas, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation