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Mobile Learning as a New Technology of Foreign Language Teaching to University Students (Taking TPU as a Case Study)

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Rapid development of information and communication technologies and a constantly changing image of a modern student make educational institutions re-evaluate teaching approaches, methods and forms of learning process, etc. Currently, in education a virtual electronic learning environment becomes very popular. The access to this environment can be obtained using a variety of mobile devices. Mobile and wireless devices are becoming more affordable, which marks the new opportunities and challenges for high schools, teachers and students. Appeal to the problem of the use of mobile learning in high school is a result of its insufficient development in pedagogy, when there is a need of educational practice in the means, which have a rich pedagogical potential to optimize the learning process in high schools. Thus, the relevance of this problem is determined by the presence of contradictions between the enormous potential of mobile learning and the lack of its use in the modern universities. The purpose of the present article is to identify the advantages and disadvantages of mobile learning and its use in teaching students at the university. To achieve these goals we have identified the following problems:
1. To define the concept of mobile learning.
2. To experimentally identify pedagogical potential of mobile learning in high school.
To realize these objectives, we carried out a literature review on the issue of mobile learning, as well as an experiment in which we used the elements of mobile learning in teaching discipline "English Language" to the 2nd-year students of the Institute of Physics and Technology of the TPU .