Introduction: Mobile Technologies in Language and Literacy Practice and Learning in Preschool and Primary School Children

The broad aim of this book, Mobile Technologies in Children’s Language and Literacy: Innovative Pedagogy in Preschool and Primary Education, is to attempt to make a contribution to the advancement of theory and practice in relation to the use of mobile technologies for learning and teaching literacy, with a focus on children up to the age of 12. Although there are substantial bodies of literature about the teaching and learning of literacy, and a growing body of research on the use of mobile technologies for language and literacy learning (Oakley, Pegrum, Faulkner, & Striepe, 2012; Pegrum, Oakley, & Faulkner, 2013), there is a need for connections between mobile learning (m-learning) and children’s literacy learning to be highlighted, examined, problematised, theorised and researched. Clearly, the ways in which mobile technologies might fundamentally change literacy definitions and practices cannot be ignored, and such transformations are also considered in this book.