Vocabulary learning on move: an investigation of mobile assisted vocabulary learning effect over students’ success and attitude

With the cutting-edge technology, teaching of foreign languages has started to be shaped in a different aspect: Computers, personal digital assistants (henceforth PDAs), mobile phones and the like have entered within the educational area. The reason behind this change is that there are approximately 1.5 billion people using mobile phones and a half billion people using personal computer (henceforth PC) around the world. This paper aims to find the effect of mobile assisted language learning over students’ success and attitude towards English language learning. Preparatory classes are chosen as the study group. During three weeks, SMS including target vocabularies have been sent to students’ phones. At the end of the application procedure, a post-test has been applied. The results show that students can learn in a much enjoyable and effective way via their mobile phones.