Mobile Assisted Vocabulary Learning with Chinese EFL Learners: Effectiveness and Evaluation

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of vocabulary gains for EFL learners with intermediate English proficiency on one reading application "Fluent Reading" in a Chinese university. This reading treatment lasted for 30 days, and the 4 participants were asked to use this reading app every day. The data were collected through the vocabulary pre-test, and post-test to measure the learners’ vocabulary gains in the 100 randomly selected target words. The results revealed that relative large vocabulary gains may occur through mobile assisted language learning.