PROMOTING VOCABULARY LEARNING THROUGH MALL: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

This paper focuses on how mobile technology helps in improving the language competencies of tertiary level students outside the classroom. It also focuses on how it motivates and encourages the students to learn the language better through digital media. A carefully selected and constructed teaching material available in digital media can give students an immediate multimedia experience which can trigger vocabulary learning, and thus making both teaching and learning experiences enjoyable. It is important that both students and teachers know how to access and use the technology to its best advantage. Classroom interaction and student involvement could be facilitated better with the help of mobile phones through the use of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL). In the chosen study 15 students from B.A (PEP) (Psychology, English & Political Science) and 15 from B.A LLB of Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science (HITS) were considered. BA LLB comprised the experimental group and were allowed to use their mobile phones in the classroom incorporating technology enhanced language teaching and flipped classroom technique, whereas the BA (PEP) group was taught in the conventional way. Results after the experimental study indicated that the students who used MALL were able to perform better in the exams with desired learning outcomes.