EFFICIENCY OF THE ‘MEMRISE’ MOBILE APPLICATION IN VOCABULARY LEARNING OF EFL STUDENTS

Nguyen Phuoc Bao Chau, Võ Thị Liên Hương

Abstract


The study looked at the efficiency of the Memrise vocabulary learning tool in EFL students’ lexical resource through reading comprehension performance, in this case, the third-year students, Department of English, University of Foreign Languages, Hue University. This is an experimental research with the participation of 40 third-year EFL students who were equally divided into the experiment and the control groups. The study was conducted within three months during which participants took totally four tests. Data were quantitatively analyzed with the assistance of the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software. The results showed that there was a significant difference in students’ lexical resource in the experiment group using the Memrise app compared to the control group, who only learned in the traditional way. The study suggests that Memrise could be used as an assistant tool in both learning and teaching vocabulary.

Keywords


Memrise, vocabulary, experiment, reading-comprehension skills

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