Pulling Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) into the Mainstream: MALL in Broad Practice.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 26010606.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0128762 and PMC identifier 4444245.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The researcher designed a smartphone app to help college students to learn English (L2) vocabulary. The app contained 3,402 English words that were compiled into an alphabetic wordlist with each word displayed on three features; namely: spelling, pronunciation and Chinese definitions. To test the effectiveness of the app, an experimental group (with app) was compared with a control group (without app) and knowledge of words was tested before and after the research. The study revealed that the students using the program significantly outperformed those in the control group in vocabulary acquisition. This paper introduced a research design method and set up a pedagogical paradigm which can be followed as a way to practice MALL.
Medical subject headings
- Language
- Mobile Applications