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Instructional Affordances of Mobile Technologies for Technical Vocabulary Acquisition: A Pedagogical Framework
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Author(s): Feng Tian (Centre for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)and Irfan Naufal Umar (Centre for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 30
Source title:
Assessing Educational Digital Transformation in the AI Era
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shaoxu Du (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia), Mageswaran Sanmugam (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia), Nurul Maziah Mohd Barkhaya (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia), Chuang Chen (Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, China)and Jia Wang (Chung-Ang University, South Korea)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-7508-3.ch010
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Abstract
As disciplinary literacy grows across academic and professional domains, technical vocabulary acquisition presents a major challenge in foreign languages for specific purposes (FLSP) instruction. Technical vocabulary poses particular learning challenges due to its strong disciplinary specificity, and limited occurrence in natural language input. Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) offers flexible, multimodal, and personalized support, yet how to translate its potential into effective instructional design remains underexplored. This study, based on established theories, proposes a pedagogical framework that integrates five key instructional affordances: contextualization, multimodal input, repetition, learner self-regulation, and motivational support. The framework bridges technology and pedagogy, offering design pathways for FLSP instructors and platform developers to optimize technical vocabulary learning in mobile environments.
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