Benefits of mobile instant messaging to develop ESL writing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss conflicts between ethics and law, regulations, or other governing legal authority, and present an informal resolution of these conflicts. But they do not address the problem of unfair discrimination.

TL;DR: This paper presents a review of mobile collaborative language learning studies published in 2012–16 with the aim to improve understanding of how mobile technologies have been used to support collab language learning.

TL;DR: Analysis of whether and how social media platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat and WhatsApp have become an integral component of teaching and learning in higher education finds that the pedagogical affordances of social media are still only being partially implemented and that diverse social media exploit affordances to different degrees.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review of available sources found on the research topic in two acknowledged databases: Web of Science and Scopus was conducted to determine whether mobile applications used in the learning of English as a foreign language are beneficial and/or effective.

TL;DR: This paper explores L.S. Vygotsky's theory on child development, highlighting the role of tools, symbols, and social interaction in cognitive development, internalization of higher psychological functions, and the relationship between learning and development.

TL;DR: A survey drawn from social science research which deals with correlational, ex post facto, true experimental, and quasi-experimental designs and makes methodological recommendations is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, sociocultural contributions to understanding the foreign and second language classroom are discussed, with a focus on how learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task.