Technology with its speedy great leaps forward has undeniable impact on every aspect of our life in the new millennium. It has supplied us with different affordances almost daily or more precisely in a matter of hours. Technology and Computer seems to be a break through as for their roles in the Twenty-First century educational system. Examples are numerous, among which CALL, CMC, and Virtual learning spaces come to mind instantly. Amongst the newly developed gadgets of today are the sophisticated smart Hand phones which are far more ahead of a communication tool once designed for. Development of Hand phone as a wide-spread multi-tasking gadget has urged researchers to investigate its effect on every aspect of learning process including language learning. This study attempts to explore the effects of using cell phone audio recording feature, by Iranian EFL learners, on the development of their speaking skills. Thirty-five sophomore students were enrolled in a pre-posttest designed study. Data on their English speaking experience using audio–recording features of their Hand phones were collected. At the end of the semester, the performance of both groups, treatment and control, were observed, evaluated, and analyzed; thereafter procured qualitatively at the next phase. The quantitative outcome lent support to integrating Hand phones as part of the language learning curriculum.

Musical folklore is a complex varied and very interesting field of culture. It consists of vocal and instrumental, choreographic and literary components. Multimedia technologies give an opportunity to make as an exact and reach presentation of it as possible. This program presents Tatar national musical culture and its connections with folklore and professional music of other nations in Russian Federation, Western European countries and the Orient. The CD contains of text in Russian, Tatar and English with corresponding playable voice recordings, video, audio recordings (folklore, modifications of national melodies, fragments from professional music), photographs, illustrations, etc. The latest modern programming tools were used in creation of the program, including DirectX® with own algorithms for extending the abilities of multimedia, up-to-date filing and compression formats (MPEG-4, MP-3, JPEG, etc.). Program uses all computer’s hardware features available with optimized for processors Pentium II – Pentium IV. Great attention was paid on designing 3D intuitively plain interface. The CD has update and extension features.