The Effect of Teaching Collocations to Kurdish Tertiary Students through Mobile Learning

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Title

The Effect of Teaching Collocations to Kurdish Tertiary Students through Mobile Learning

Subject

Collocations
Writing
Mobile Assisted Language Learning

Description

Proficiency in English occupies a significant place in the newly formed Kurdistan region of Iraq.  English is considered a window of opportunities and economic development of its people and the region. The quality of teaching and learning plays a crucial role in achieving the objective. However, the lack of trained teachers in English at the school level has severely affected the standards of English at the tertiary level. Students pursuing undergraduate courses at Cihan University find it a challenging task to meet the required standards. The lack of a strong foundation in English in addition to the constraints of time and the high standards of the curriculum at the tertiary level makes it more challenging for the teachers to teach them writing skills. The present study aims at exposing the Kurdish students to English collocations vocabulary through Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) to enhance their writing and communicative purposes. Twenty-five students from undergraduate courses were randomly selected for the purpose of the study. The results have shown an improved performance of the students in using the right collocations. The study brings out the need for integrating MALL in the regular curriculum at the tertiary levels in Kurdistan.

Creator

Mallampalli, Sasi Sekhar
Goyal, Shriya

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 14 No. 18 (2020); pp. 213-220
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2020-11-10

Rights

Copyright (c) 2020 Sasi Sekhar Mallampalli, Shriya Goyal

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Non-refereed Article

Identifier

Citation

Sasi Mallampalli Sekhar and Shriya Goyal, The Effect of Teaching Collocations to Kurdish Tertiary Students through Mobile Learning, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2020, accessed November 23, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1823

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