Mobile-assisted language learning in technical and engineering education: Tools and learners´ feedback

Mobile devices have become standard within didactic means on all levels of education and in all subjects to appropriate extent, including foreign languages. This study focuses on their use within technical (i.e. bachelor) and engineering (i.e. master) higher education in Informatics and Management study programmes at the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM), University of Hradec Kralove (UHK), Czech Republic, particularly focusing on comparison in general subjects to English for specific purposes (ESP). Following questions were set to be researched: (1) What sources of information do students use for ESP?, (2) What mobile devices do they own and exploit for mobile-assisted ESP learning? and (3) What is students´ feedback after MALL? As the availability and exploitation of mobile devices have been spreading sharply lately in the Czech Republic, the results closely reflect the state in education, particularly in MALL, in the world.