AN ENTERTAINING MOBILE VOCABULARY LEARNING APPLICATION

Year 2017, Volume: 7 , 63 - 66, 04.08.2017

Furkan Goz , Mehmet Ozcan

Abstract

Learning a foreign language has
become a necessity in today’s globalized world. While grammar structure of
foreign language is learned easily, it is generally a difficult and boring job
for people to develop the vocabulary knowledge. At this point it is essential
to make learning easy, practical and fun. Beginning to play a substantial role
in learning, mobile platforms are utilized for their practicality, portability
and dynamism in this context. Moreover, it is viable with a game to turn the
learning process into fun. In this work, it is purposed to develop a mobile
game assisting people in memorizing the words of a foreign language. It is a
kind of word prediction game giving clues according to the user’s guesses. In
this game, both options are available, either to play with the whole words
already in the application or to specify the words used in the gameplay.

Keywords

Game based learning, mobile programming, foreign vocabulary learning

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