A Multimedia Offline Cell Phone System For English Language Learning

Among mobile computing devices, cell phones are the most wide spread devices and are available in the hands of almost every university student. Other than being portable phones, many are equipped with functionalities including internet access, mp3/mp4 player, digital camera video recorder etc. and can run multimedia content. These features make them attractive as educational tools as well. In this paper we present an offline Flash-based prototype system for English language learning using cell phones. The system consists of ten Learning Objects (LO) constructed using the multimedia approach. Initial testing demonstrated the efficiency of the system and it was extremely well received by students.