M-learning in Foreign Language Learning

Teachers nowadays have much more roles compared to that of prE-internet period. As an English teacher, how to help and support students to achieve the maximum learning result are always his top concerns. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that MobilE-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) in general and smartphone usage in particular, is capable of supporting applications based on a variety of learning theories, especially constructivism and methodological approaches. The paper aims at introducing the experience of language teaching and learning through the means of social networking devices, providing some practical solutions to the problems existing in Chinese foreign language teaching of higher education, sharing the experience, observation, concrete approaches in the course of College English and ESP course for non-English-major postgraduate. It is hoped that the strategies employed in the course of language instruction can offer some constructive insights for English teachers and students.