A Mobile English-Chinese/Chinese-English Learning System based on Web Services.

Information technologies have brought a new learning environment. Although learning a language is a challenging task, with the help of electronic devices learning a language could be more efficient. Mobile devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistant (PDA), and pocket PCs made it possible to learn anytime and anywhere. "Web services" have become a popular technology for the applications that are service-oriented and need to be integrated across different platforms. Furthermore, Web services allow the resources to be shared and the new service to be built by mashing up various Web services. Sharing and mashing up are the core idea of the Web 2.0. This paper presents a mobile English-Chinese/ Chinese-English learning system based on Web services. A number of features of the system such as an online English-Chinese/Chinese-English dictionary and a multi-player word guessing contest are explored. This paper describes the design, the implementation, and technologies that are required to construct a mobile Web services application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]