BusinessAppUna aplicación para el aprendizaje del inglés mediante dispositivos móviles en el campo de los negocios

Abstract

Mobile Assisted Language Learning (or, simply, MALL) is gradually gaining ground in the field of education, as it supports (1) blended learning (Bueno y López, 2013; Rodríguez et al., 2012); (2) ubiquitous learning (Peng et al., 2009); and (3) a learning method that is usually also practical, interactive, adaptive, dynamic and deeply rooted in daily socio-cultural situations and contexts (Kukulska-Hulme, 2012; Pareja et al., 2013). In this paper, we present BusinessApp, a particular mobile application we have recently developed. BusinessApp uses a solid pedagogy to help its users create and perform successful business presentations. The potential users of this application are professionals and students in general, since business presentations in English are an almost compulsory and essential activity in most professional environments nowadays. BusinessApp contains selfevaluating (automatically corrected) exercises and is intended to be a natural and interactive tool. This will allow not only blended and ubiquitous language learning, but also autonomous language learning.