In the quest for cooperative learning in language learning mobile applications

Abstract

In the following article, six language learning mobile applications (apps) are analyzed to determine to what extent collaborative learning is used. In order to do that, we detected the possibilities for expression and interaction to be found in the applications and evaluated who the people involved in those exchanges are, how they take place, in which language and for what purposes. The results proved that, in spite of the applications being conceived as a personal tool, they also feature the possibility of interacting with other people for different purposes, but mostly in the user’s language and not so much in the target one.