CAGRISIM (CONNOTATION): DEVELOPING MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR VOCABULARY TEACHING


AKTAŞ Ö., KOŞANER Ö., BİRANT Ç. C.

5th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), Barcelona, İspanya, 1 - 03 Temmuz 2013, ss.1822-1827 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
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  • Basıldığı Şehir: Barcelona
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İspanya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1822-1827
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Vocabulary, semantic relations, mobile applications, educational software
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Smart-phones and tablet computers are greatly useful and mobile devices which are rapidly developing at the very present time. These mobile devices are used for, in addition to numerous kinds of internet transactions, leisure activities and entertaining online / offline games, especially by youngsters. Developing technologies and some games which use these technologies may affect students' vocabulary (Turkish vocabulary in the context of this study) and pronunciation learning. The purpose of the study is to develop an offline software architecture which can enable the students to learn the Turkish words, their meanings, the semantic relations between them such as synonymy and antonymy, through entertaining games running on mobile operating systems; and to enable researchers to gain insight about how people make inferences about a word when they first see it via free connotation information. In this way, it is thought that this study would provide support for the linguistic and intellectual development of students, by enabling them to understand and use Turkish correctly and appropriately; and would enable the students to be raised as social individuals by increasing social interaction in a technology-driven classroom.