Title of article :
The Impact of a Custom-Made Vocabulary Application on the Vocabulary Recognition of Iranian EFL Learners
Author/Authors :
Kazemainy ، Faramarz Department of English Language and Literature - Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch , Barjesteh ، Hamed Department of English Language and Literature - Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch , Golaghaei ، Nassim ELT Department - Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages - Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch , Nasrollahi Mouziraji ، Atefeh Department of English Language and Literature - Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch
Abstract :
Vocabulary Guru (VG) is a custom-made mobile application (app) developed based on the task model and agile methodology via qualitative needs analysis. This investigation intended to assess the impact of VG on EFL learners’vocabulary recognition. First, 84 academic vocabularieswere selected, based on their frequencies defined by the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (Davies, 2017) and the Academic Core Vocabulary Website (Davies Gardner, 2019). From 141 university students, 60 intermediate female students were selected who were randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group practiced the target vocabularies via VG, whereas the control group learned them via the conventional method. A vocabulary recognition test was developed and administered twice to both groups.Finally, two paired samples t-tests and two independent samples t-tests were utilized to estimate within and between-groups differences. The findings revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group significantly.
Keywords :
Agile Methodology , Mobile Assisted Language Learning , Needs analysis , Task Model , Vocabulary Guru
Journal title :
Research in English Language Pedagogy (RELP)
Journal title :
Research in English Language Pedagogy (RELP)
