New Techniques and Technologies in English Language Teaching

Present Education field has been turned out to be the representative of technology and innovation. The vast evolution of technology has created a center of attention for people to make productive use of technology more frequently in their day to day life. In such evolutionary phase, users find high comfortable in completing their activities satisfactorily either by way of interacting with society or by gaining information, knowledge or learning language. The emergence of "MALL' (mobile assisted language learning) is the consequences of rapid development of computer assisted language learning and availabilities of plenty of software and websites. In order to access these software and websites, anywhere- anytime accessible tool has been needed. The place of the desktop has been taken by the laptop which has been gradually replaced by the use of advanced palm-top. Consequently, a wide spread research studies in the field of mobile technology exert a pull on to find out the worthwhile use and effectiveness of various handy devices in general and mobile assisted language learning in particular.

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Raval, Vikas
Dr Vikas Raval has been serving as an assistant professor of English and communication skills at Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute, Mehsana since August 2012. Previously, he worked with Institute of Technology, Nirma University and Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya, Gandhinagar. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience.