AN ENTERTAINING MOBILE VOCABULARY LEARNING APPLICATION
Furkan Göz, Mehmet Özcan · DergiPark (Istanbul University) · 2017
Learning a foreign language hasbecome a necessity in today’s globalized world. While grammar structure offoreign language is learned easily, it is generally a difficult and boring jobfor people to develop the vocabulary knowledge. At this point it is essentialto make learning easy, practical and fun. Beginning to play a substantial rolein learning, mobile platforms are utilized for their practicality, portabilityand dynamism in this context. Moreover, it is viable with a game to turn thelearning process into fun. In this work, it is purposed to develop a mobilegame assisting people in memorizing the words of a foreign language. It is akind of word prediction game giving clues according to the user’s guesses. Inthis game, both options are available, either to play with the whole wordsalready in the application or to specify the words used in the gameplay.