THE USE OF HAND PHONE APPLICATION TO INCREASE STUEDENT’S ABILYTY IN LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY

Abstrak

Abstract: Vocabulary acquisition and word retention play an important role to be successful in learning English as EFL or those who use English as their second language. Nowadays the presents of smart phone has bring many advantageous for English learners, since the availability of a large number of application in play store that have pave way to able to learn vocabulary more intense than to learn with text books. It’s providing the learners with so many vocabulary applications which they can choose to suit their need particularly in learning vocabulary. With the help of vocabulary application enable the student to access words in a very easy and simple way. The advancement in technology has greatly improved the existing setting in education world in recent years. The wide use of mobile wireless technologies as well has created more opportunities to shift the traditional academic environment to mobile learning. This research studies is aimed at finding out whether this technology helps learners to acquire new vocabulary and to see how it has significant result to the learners’ performance before and after using mobile applications. It examines whether the using of hand phone application device affects the vocabulary learning in the second language acquisition. The quantitative data revealed positive change in learners’ performance and the questionnaire analysis indicated that using the applications helped increase learning of vocabulary, confidence, class participation and that, students had a positive tendency toward the use of applications and multimedia in education. The study reported here investigates the use and effectiveness of mobile applications in English vocabulary learning. The findings also proved that this technology is the useful means to support and to motivate students to learn vocabulary. To conclude that, both EFL teachers and students are involved with using mobile technology as new educational tools in an appropriate manner to achieve better pedagogical results. Key Word: English Vocabulary; Hand Phone Application, Student’s Ability