The Literature Review on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Features

Educational activities are continuously altered nowadays by the appearance of technology on this ground. The rising speed of technological progress and its impact on the construction and design of virtual devices that can be used for educational purposes has made human beings use this improvement to facilitate education duties. In the current study, the impact of digitalization on learning is discussed in the first step, then the computerizing devices which affect the learning are surveyed and after that mobile learning, creating portable devices for facilitating education, their advantages, and disadvantages, and becoming a central component of education by inventing, adding wireless technology in this equipment are scrutinized. Specifications such as individuality, convenience, interactivity, inexpensiveness, ubiquitous, and portability of m-learning cause this kind of learning to be specialized for foreign/second language learning around the world. Mobile–assisted language learning (MALL), as a kind of m-learning that is specified for language learning and its features, different styles, merits and demerits, and constraints by different previous scholars and their points about MALL are inspected in this study. By accelerating the speed of digital technology in electronic instruments and their designs, particularly mobile and portable ones, the educational applications on mobile cells are increased, too. Hence the teachers should acquaint themselves with effective educational applications and methods to instruct their students based on their proficiency levels since they can apply the updated digitized devices appropriately to never fall behind the daily and rapid progress.