JUNG Jonghee    Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  Center for Language Education    Position   Associate Professor
Research Period	2011～2013
Research Topic	Application development of 'E-Mentor' program for Mobile-assisted English learning
Research Type	Individual Research
Research Division
Keyword	Mobile-Assisted Language Learning, English Education, EFL Learning
KAKENHI Category	Foreign language education
Details	Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) is evolving beyond the qualitative growth oftechnologicalinnovations of smart devices.With variousinventiveapplications,MALL invites learners to become organizers,active participants,and evaluators themselves in the different learning situations. Thefeasible conception of E-Mentor is essentially an adviser on the operating systems of smart devices to introduce EFL-learners to the most effective and proper applications for English educational purpose on a case-by-casebasis. One of the major features of the E-Mentor’s mentoring system is the technological realization of functional categories based on analysis of the users’(EFL-learners)linguistic competence. E-Mentor categorizes its users according to the particularized objectives of learning, content difficulties, age of target learners, educational environments,and both contents and system satisfactions of users.