Mobile Purposive-Extensive-Podcast-Listening versus Mobile Self-Regulated-Podcast-Development: A Critical Framework for Designing Foreign Language Listening

Nowadays mobile technologies are widely employed in almost all fields of education for varying reasons. The present study intends to explore the role of mobile technologies in the development of students' listening skills in a higher education context. The aim of the present study is twofold; while it seeks for the feasibility of mobile technologies in listening activities of higher education students, it will also try to propose solutions to a rather neglected side of teaching listening within the frame of foreign/second language education. Although there are several studies on listening skills in foreign/second language teaching, almost none of them clearly or scientifically deal with the elaboration of the listening activities (i.e. conditions describing listening skills). Thus, using mobile technologies, the present study will also try to find an evidence-based answer to this issue. However, since this presentation is part of an ongoing study, supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), we will just propose two critical frameworks for its methodology, introduce the proposed framework for integration of the mobile technology and welcome the contributions of the scholars about its function in the field of language education. [For full proceedings, see ED565087.]