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Evaluation of the Use of Mobile Application in Learning English Vocabulary and Phrases – A Case Study

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Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2018)

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At present, there is an increasing trend in the shift from the use of traditional technologies such as a desktop computer towards the use of mobile technologies such as a mobile phone. Nearly all students nowadays own a mobile device and about half of them own more than one. Therefore, students are well equipped for mobile learning. The purpose of this article is to firstly explore the use of mobile learning and its use in English language teaching. Secondly, on the basis of students’ needs, the authors aim to exploit and describe a mobile application aimed at learning English vocabulary and phrases among students of Management of Tourism in their third year of study. Finally, on the basis of the results from the final tests, they attempt to analyze and evaluate to what extent the mobile application is effective in their learning of English vocabulary and phrases. The results show that the use of mobile app contributes to the improvement of students’ learning, in this case of English vocabulary and phrases relevant to their needs. In addition, the findings also confirm that professional and careful guidance of learning via a mobile app can lead to independent learning, i.e. students’ self-study.

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Acknowledgments

This study is supported by the SPEV project 2018/2104, run at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

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  1. Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    Blanka Klímová

  2. Department of Informatics and Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    Aleš Berger

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  1. South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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  2. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

    Wei Chen

  3. Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Haoran Xie

  4. Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Wanvimol Nadee

  5. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Rynson Lau

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Klímová, B., Berger, A. (2018). Evaluation of the Use of Mobile Application in Learning English Vocabulary and Phrases – A Case Study. In: Hao, T., Chen, W., Xie, H., Nadee, W., Lau, R. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03580-8_1

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