Teacher Education in Mobile Assisted Language Learning for Adult Migrants: A Study of Provincial Centres for Adult Education in Italy

Provincial Centres for Adult Education (It. Centri Provinciali per l’Istruzione degli Adulti, CPIA) have in recent years been tasked with teaching Italian to adult migrants. With respect to other educational contexts, language courses in CPIAs exhibit a greater heterogeneity as regards literacy; this fact influences the way learners work with technology. Further, CPIA learners make large use of handheld devices; therefore, mobile assisted language learning constitutes a major issue in this context and teacher education for this technology is of paramount importance today. The chapter reports on a case study about how three CPIA language teachers use mobile technology in their classrooms and how contextual factors influence their work. Based on the findings, a tentative list of issues pertaining to teacher training for mobile assisted language learning (MALL) in this context is discussed.