Wordup mobile app in the English vocabulary

Abstract

Technological tools focused on education have become an essential part of the learning development of each student, so it has been developing several resources that allow students to have an interactive learning, hence the WordUp mobile app is a tool that wants to help students in learning and practicing English vocabulary. The main aim of this research was focused on describing how WordUp mobile app improves the learning process of the English vocabulary. The process of this research work used a quantitative approach in order to collect statistical data and perform an analysis of the investigation. The research was applied in a population of 22 students, 13 men and 9 women from 2do de Bachillerato General Unificado from Unidad Educativa “CEC” school, the treatment of this research was in 5 weeks with a total of 5 sessions. Also, the instrument of this investigation was a validated Cambridge English Qualifications test called “A2 Key (KET)”, which was utilized to collect data from 22 participants, and was applied as a pre-test and post-test. This test consisted of 2 reading sections, which focused on testing vocabulary through activities such as multiple-choice questions. This test was applied at the beginning and end of the research, where the Pre-test and average of 9,0, and in the post-test was an average of 10,68 giving a difference of 1,68. To prove the hypothesis T-test was used which gave a P-value of 0,000 lower than the significant level that is 0,05, accepting the alternative hypothesis. Finally, the conclusion of the research proposed that the WordUp mobile app enhanced the English vocabulary in the students, demonstrating the app has a great impact on students learning English vocabulary.