THE EFFECT OF USING MALL ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERSʹʹ VOCABULARY LEARNING

This study focused on the impact of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) on Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ vocabulary learning. To carry out the research, 60 Iranian EFL learners, who participated in an international English language testing system (IELTS) preparation course, were selected as the participants of the study. Afterward they were randomly assigned into experimental and comparison groups. A vocabulary test was given to both groups as the pretest. The participants in the experimental group received 150 vocabularies of the General vocabulary for the IELTS book, their definitions and example sentences on a regular basis three times a week vie SMS. The participants of the comparison group were provided with the same vocabularies and were asked to learn them with dictionary by themselves. After ten weeks, a vocabulary posttest was administered to both groups. The result indicated that the experimental group outperformed the comparison group leading to the conclusion that the use of MALL had a significantly more effective impact on learners’ vocabulary learning.