The impact of mobile-assisted learning on learners' lexical competence case study of third year students at Biskra University

Abstract EN

Vocabulary knowledge is significant for students’ language proficiency and academic achievement.

it is the cornerstone of language proficiency since it is the key element that enables learners to respond to the four skills effectively.

however, a large number of students in our setting struggle to express themselves when they are in need to produce a piece of writing or to communicate orally, either in class or elsewhere because their lexicon is not well developed.

considering this an educational issue, an action research had been undertaken for the sake of finding a treatment.

thus, this research work attempted to show the effects of mobile-assisted language learning in enhancing students’ lexical competence at biskra university.

for this purpose, 70 participants, 35 representing an experimental group and 35 a control group, were used in this quasi-experimental study in which cambridge texts were exploited during a whole semester.

both the value of the independent t-test (1.98) for 68 degrees of freedom and the six interviewees’ responses revealed the significance of the treatment.

this can be one way of enriching students’ vocabulary through a mean which is easily accessed as all the students possess mobiles and are motivated to use them in an educational setting.