ABSTRACT
This chapter examines designs for Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), appropriate for learning of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), and identifies challenges in delivering these MALL designs. Amongst other things MALL designs may: help learners connect episodes of different kinds of learning activity; provide access to help on demand; enable anywhere, anytime study; increase opportunities for target language communication; facilitate sharing of content; support collaboration with peers and teachers; encourage more and distributed study. Such MALL designs both exploit and stretch the affordances of mobile technology. In this chapter, analysis of requirements for vocabulary learning tools, technology affordances that can be exploited for vocabulary learning, and mobile learning designs, leads to the identification of opportunities to better support enactment of MALL designs. These are of particular relevance to LSP as their exploitation allows closer attention to the requirements of specific language domains and learners.
