ADVANCING UNDERGRADUATES’ ENGLISH ACADEMIC VOCABULARY THROUGH THE DEPLOYMENT OF QUIZIZZ FOR GAMIFICATION IN A BLENDED LEARNING FRAMEWORK
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v22.n3.3627Keywords:
Blended Learning, Gamification, Higher Education, Quizizz, Undergraduates, VocabularyAbstract
The need to improve vocabulary in mastering English has grown in higher education of late, as engineering students now have greater employment opportunities. However, vocabulary research has steadily declined across almost all levels of education, especially as students enter higher education. Many academics have advocated the successful use of digital technologies to encourage students to engage actively in their education, and the utilisation of gamification to engage students in word learning has had a significant impact recently. Adding to the existing research and considering the current need to advance undergraduate students' English vocabulary, this study aimed to employ blended learning via Quizizz for gamification to improve students' vocabulary. In the beginning, the researchers conducted a pre-test for a randomised sample of 53 undergraduates. Based on the results, they bifurcated all the students into two research groups: the control and experimental groups. The control group received traditional instruction, and the experimental group used blended learning. This study used quantitative data from the pre-test and post-test. However, after the training, the researchers conducted a post-test to assess vocabulary improvement in both research groups. Intriguingly, this study found a significant distinction between the two research groups in that test. The statistical evaluation showed that the S_pooled value 3.86 differed from the experimental group's standard deviation by 0.77 and from the control group's deviation by 1.2. i.e., the experimental group differs significantly from the control group, which is less than the control group. This weighted average also supported the findings that the experimental group outperformed the control group post-training.
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