title: Pulling Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) into the Mainstream: MALL in Broad Practice.
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.
authors.affiliation: School of Foreign Languages, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China.
authors.forename: Qun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D063731:Mobile Applications; D014825:Vocabulary