A guide through the wild: Ideas for responsibly integrating mobile phones into our language curricula

The two-by-five inch computer in our learners’ pockets can challenge language teachers’ sense of control in ways that are both distracting and liberating. In this presentation, I set out from Steve Thorne’s notion (Little & Thorne, 2017) of “re-wilding” language education to present the affordances of mobile learning for the usage-based aspects of language proficiency. Practical suggestions will be given for activity and task design for mobile learning, and for alternating between tech-intensive and tech-free spaces in our language curricula.