Outline. This outline intends to depict how Ballance (2012) critically focusses on Stockwell's (2010) research findings on MALL

Outline: A Critical View on Mobile Assisted Language Learning

Purpose: this outline aims to provide an overview on Ballance’s (2012) technological-educational article, by means describing how the ideas throughout the article are organized so as to convey the author’s critical view on Stockwell’s (2010) research.

Audience: educational and technological fields’ readers.

Thesis statement: According to Ballance’s (2012), Stockwell’s (2010) findings are not only limited by the fast pace of technological development, but also by the scope of the research itself.

I.                   Ballance (2012) explains that he will focus critically on Stockwell’s (2010) research on MALL.

II.                Background information is provided.

A.    CALL origins and description.

B.      The importance of the internet emergence for CALL and MALL.

C.     MALL emergence

III.             Ballance (2012) explores some negative aspects of Stockwell’s (2010) research.

A.    Research findings become obsolete because of the speed of the technological development.

B.     The difference posed by the existence of different kinds of platforms.

C.     Technological devices present physical differences.

IV.             Ballance (2012) criticizes the nature of the activities used throughout Stockwell’s (2010) project.

A.    Ballance (2012) provides reasons for which he considers Stockwell’s project activities to be designed for pen-and-paper completion.

B.     Ballance (2012) expresses his point of view by means of suggesting the use of apps.

V.                Ballance’s (2012) final conclusion

A.    Stockwell’s (2010) research findings are obsolete because of the existence of two main limitations:

a)      Technology develops at a fast pace.

b)      The research itself presents a limited scope.