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Exploring Vietnamese university students’ perception of using Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) to study English

Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences, 2022
As a result of tremendous technological breakthroughs over the past several decades, there has been an unparalleled expansion of portable smart devices and mobile applications, especially for language learning purposes.
Lai Thanh Van, Le Hoang Duong
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THE TRANSCALAR POLITICS AND SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF INVESTMENTS IN SHOPPING MALLS IN AFRICAN CITIES: A Study of Accra's West Hills Mall, Ghana

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien, George Owusu, Kofi Kekeli Amedzro, Musah Aziba Issah, Jennifer Robinson, John Spyropoulos   +5 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
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How is Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) Implemented by Senior High School English Teachers?

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora, 2019
: Implementing Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) is one way to develop language teaching practices. Finding out how MALL is implemented by English teachers could provide insights to the future of MALL.
Narendra Dyah Inggita, Francisca Maria Ivone, Ali Saukah   +2 more
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Investigating gender and experience effects on EFL learners' perceptions of Mobile assisted language learning [PDF]

Technology Assisted Language Education
English has widely used mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) English as a foreign language (EFL) learner to enhance their language learning experience. Although previous studies investigated various factors impacting learners’ perceptions of MALL and
Saman Ebadi, Ali Raygan
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Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio, Guillermo Merelo, Robet Kilkpatrick, Annie Hilton   +3 more
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Pengembangan Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Menggunakan User Centered Design

Jurnal Nasional Teknik Elektro dan Teknologi Informasi, 2018
This paper aims to develop a mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) application for English intensive course (EIC) using user centered design method.
Manda Rohandi, Nurlaila Husain, Indri W. Bay   +2 more
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Physical‐Digital Interfaces in Informal Language Learning: Ecological and Spatial Perspectives on Narratives of Everyday Life

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the growing recreational use of digital media technology, informal language learning occurs more frequently within individuals’ everyday lives. However, the interplay between digital and physical spaces in informal language learning remains underexplored.
Yeong‐Ju Lee, Peter Roger
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