The Development of the Mobile Situated Learning Application Based on Microlocation Technology

According to the statistics of the Bureau of Tourism, the number of tourist to Taiwan has reached as high as 75 million in recent ten years, the whole world show the trend of internationalization gradually. In this situation, English has been becoming the necessary language, also it becomes the second language of the global people. Learning English is regarded as a national activity nowadays. However, most of us cant learn it well because we grow in a Chinese environment, and there is no suitable environment for us to learn English. Therefore, the scholar suggested using Situated Learning Theory (SLT) to obtain a real learning effect. In the real life, context-aware interact with other individuals to achieve the effect of situated learning. In this study, we uses iBeacon microlocation technology to let the users learning English in the real environment, and to gather information from the environment. The users can learn efficiently in the real environment by situated language teaching. Users can not only get the knowledge after learning, but also achieve the benefits from learning.