%0 Journal Article 
%A Calderón Márquez, Andrea
%T Teaching and Assessing Foreign Language Learning through Apps
%D 2016
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/18627
%X Languages change and develop together with human race. As time goes on, languages adapt to human beings’ needs and preferences. This also applies to foreign language learning and teaching processes, which keep on renovating their approaches and teaching methods in order to connect to learners’ needs in modern times. Nowadays, information and communication technologies (ICT) play such an important role in our everyday lives that they have also found their way into this field. This has given rise to constant innovations such as Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). Although MALL has existed for more than twenty years, it still undergoes changes and even faces some challenges. Currently, apps appear as new ways of approaching foreign language learning and teaching. In this paper, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is conducted, in which MALL studies on the use of apps are examined. The purpose of this analysis is to determine if their use is increasing, on the one hand, and, on the other, to present the tendencies these papers reveal. To this end, a total of 35 valid studies published from 2012 to 2015 are thoroughly analysed, focusing on both the different types of learning supported by the apps and on the kind of assessment the papers propose. The results show that the use of apps in MALL is increasing, but also that the type of learning supported by most apps is not very different from that of traditional learning approaches.

%K foreign language
%K teaching
%K learning
%K mobile learning
%K Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL)
%K smartphones
%K apps
%K information and communication technologies (ICT)
%K seamless learning
%K ubiquitous learning
%K Systematic Literature Review (SLR)
%K lengua extranjera
%K enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras mediante tecnología móvil (MALL)
%K smartphones
%K apps
%K tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC)
%K aprendizaje ubicuo
%K Revisión Sistemática de la Literatura (RSL)
%~ Universidad de Cádiz