Although the results of the present study showed positive effects of utilizing Quizlet on EFL senior high school students’ vocabulary acquisition, some recommendations are provided for further research.
1. Select Students from Different Regions to Increase the Reliability and to Generalize the Findings
First, the urban-rural gap in English education is wide in Taiwan, and the gap in digital learning between urban and rural areas is even wider. Different resources in
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different areas will influence the participants’ performance. This may be an issue worthy of further investigation.
2. Consider Different Types of Test
Second, to further explore the effects of vocabulary learning through mobile devices, different types of test should be taken into consideration. In addition to multiple choice questions, approaches such as gap-filling, matching, cloze, error correction, dictation tests, spelling vocabulary tests, or speaking out target words would make tests more reliable and useful.
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APPENDICES Appendix A:
128 Words of Levels Three to Six From Lessons 1-6 Long-Teng Textbook, Book 4
Level Vocabulary Number
3 ambassador, angle, appeal, bare, cattle, chain, condition, creature, decade, emergency, exhibition, freeze, harm, impressive, laundry, lively, network, pale, passion, powder, responsibility, reveal, scale, scholar, sting, strategy, survival, switch, technique, technology, tend, thirst, visible
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4 alert, application, assume, biology, candidate, charity, circular, competitor, continuous, copper, costume, crush, demand, dense, drill, economy, encounter, enthusiasm, essential, estimate, expand, explore, fatal, fiction, gaze, horizon, inspire, instinct, intensify, involve, isolate, landscape, lead, lean, luxury, objective, occupy, organic, overnight, physics, poisonous,
preserve, recover, resemble, salary, urge, weekly
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5 agricultural, anchor, boom, caretaker, contemporary, destination, exaggeration, exceed, extraordinary, fascinate, filter, gorilla, interpreter, massage, massive, masterpiece, outgoing, outsider, outward, prop,
province, resident, resume, secure, submit, summon, tilt, toxic, upward, venture, whiskey, wildlife
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6 bizarre, coincidence, decline, ethical, exotic, habitat, highlight, lush, persistent, possess, setback, spectacular, spiral, sponsor, subtle, twilight
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196 Words of Levels Three to Six From All+ Interactive English Magazine
Level Vocabulary Number
3 affordable, engineering, suggestion, significance 4 4 accompany, accomplish, accuracy, amid, amidst, apologize,
application, appropriate, attach, barrier, breed, cement, charity, civilization, code, commit, concentrate, conquer, conservative, contribute, contribution, counter, concentrate, cram, critic, critical, decrease, delighted, demonstrate, depart, disorder, devoted, dispute, disturb, drill, economically, embarrassment, embassy, endure, entertaining, equipment, era, estimate, evidence, exceptional, exhibit, explanation, explore, explosive, fantastic, fatal, financial, forbid, fortunately, fragrance, fulfill, gallery, gear, gene, generation, generosity, gloriously, goods, guilt, guilty, hardship, helicopter, highly, idle, imply, incorporate, information, inspiration, instinct, invest, landmark, legend, literature, loyalty, magnificent, mechanical, minimum, moderate, moreover, numerous, operation, overcome, oxygen, part-time, pedal, percentage, phenomenon, philosopher,
photography, physical, pioneer, possession, primitive, proceed, production, publish, reflect, regulation, remark, resistance, restriction, retire, route, severe, shelter, shift, sightseeing, socket, species, strive, tension, theme, tough, translate, unique,
volunteer, wrinkle
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5 adore, alien, allergy, architecture, astonish, ban, booth, bulge, cathedral, celebrity, chef, compelling, contemplate,
contemporary, distress, dwarf, endeavor, entitle, extraordinary, fad, fascinating, flaw, glacier, gospel, grease, guideline, harness, issue, laser, lifelong, livestock, majesty, mash, masterpiece, milestone, modify, mourn, nonetheless, orphanage, outgoing, overall, overwhelming, Pacific, potential, quest, rally,
recommend, reside, resort, robust, rugged, shove, shrine, skull, snore, solo, spectator, spine, spur, steer, substantial, worthy
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6 refund, version, ecological, equate, erupt, fame, inherit, opponent 8
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Appendix B: Pretest
PRETEST Class Number Name 1. A collection of paintings by Picasso is on ______at the Museum of Art.
(A) creature (B) laundry (C) technique (D) exhibition 2. Andy’s promotion means more money and more ______.
(A) ambassador (B) responsibility (C) significance (D) suggestion 3. There’s a tornado! A man is stuck in a tree! It’s a(n) ______! Call 911!
(A) survival (B) emergency (C) scholar (D) strategy 4. This is a high-quality product at a very ______ price.
(A) magnificent (B) impressive (C) critical (D) affordable
5. When you make something visible or make it public information, you ______it.
(A) tend (B) sting (C) freeze (D) reveal
6. I used to play golf but I ______ to tennis to get more exercise.
(A) endured (B) departed (C) switched (D) tilted
7. The studies ______ a clear link between smoking and lung cancer.
(A) accomplish (B) conquer (C) incorporate (D) demonstrate 8. There have been doubts about the______ of the report.
(A) contribution (B) civilization (C) landscape (D) accuracy 9. Sorry to ______ you, but I have an important message to tell you.
(A) explore (B) disturb (C) breed (D) attach
10.The dizzy feeling in Mary’s head ______, and she knew she was about to pass out.
(A) estimated (B) isolated (C) concentrated (D) intensified
11. Many people believe that love is a(n) ______ ingredient in a marriage.
(A) essential (B) appropriate (C) lively (D) guilty
12. The murderer may have tried to burn the bodies in an attempt to destroy the ______. (A) philosopher (B) equipment (C) operation (D) evidence
13. Exercise is an ideal way to relieve ______ after a hard day.
(A) pioneer (B) volunteer (C) tension (D) legend
14. Helen had ______ while she was taking a walk beside the river.
(A) percentage (B) inspiration (C) embarrassment (D) enthusiasm 15. This old piano had been her mother’s most treasured ______.
(A) regulation (B) photography (C) generation (D) possession
16. German police had found highly______ materials in a 22-year-old Syrian man’s apartment. (A) explosive (B) entertaining (C) primitive (D) financial
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17. The ______of Mr. and Mrs. Green made the school project possible.
(A) phenomenon (B) generosity (C) fragrance (D) resistance 18. The castle is part of the country’s history and should be ______
(A) preserved (B) exhibited (C) expanded (D) resembled
19. My grandmother’s been very ill, and she’s still in hospital ______.
(A) leaning (B) demanding (C) reflecting (D) recovering
20. Lee stated that he did not intend to stand as a ______ in the presidential elections.
(A) competition (B) candidate (C) application (D) production 21. The police put up ______to control the crowd.
(A) barriers (B) galleries (C) biology (D) economy
22. As a student, Jane lived very ______, rarely dining out and buying very few clothes. (A) gloriously (B) nonetheless (C) economically (D) fortunately 23. Henry had suffered ______ abuse at the hands of his parents.
(A) delighted (B) unique (C) physical (D) exceptional
24. The Eiffel Tower is probably the most celebrated ______ in Paris.
(A) restriction (B) literature (C) sightseeing (D) landmark 25. ______farming is better for the environment.
(A) Fatal (B) Severe (C) Organic (D) Mechanical
26. She sat down and ______ to tell me about her skiing holiday.
(A) translated (B) remarked (C) retired (D) proceeded 27. His faithful old dog ______ him everywhere he went.
(A) accompanied (B) forbidden (C) overcome (D) assumed 28. The sun sank below the ______.
(A) physics (B) costume (C) horizon (D) species 29. The accident ______ two cars and a lorry.
(A) urged (B) inspired (C) involved (D) strove
30. Mr. Lin opened a ______ to provide temporary housing for the homeless.
(A) objective (B) shelter (C) circular (D) gear
31. Can you distinguish the difference between ______ mushrooms and edible ones?
(A) continuous (B) poisonous (C) tough (D) luxury 32. Rita is fully ______ with her two children.
(A) apologized (B) committed (C) gazed (D) occupied 33. He died after taking a ______ overdose of drugs.
(A) massive (B) lifelong (C) worthy (D) dense
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34. Robert injured his ______ in a riding accident.
(A) cathedral (B) spine (C) majesty (D) gospel 35. I have to go now because I was ______ by my wife.
(A) shoved (B) idled (C) summoned (D) massaged 36. Sandy has ______ for her dead child for many years.
(A) modified (B) mourned (C) resorted (D) snored 37. I can’t eat any more. My stomach is ______.
(A) distressing (B) bulging (C) submitting (D) exceeding 38. After the death of her parents, she was raised in a(n) ______.
(A) caretaker (B) wildlife (C) orphanage (D) grease
39. The new hospital has issued new ______ on the treatment of mentally ill patients.
(A) skulls (B) guidelines (C) livestock (D) spectators 40. She read a novel ______ White Fang.
(A) entitled (B) adored (C) spurred (D) banned
41. As we set off into the woods, we felt as though we were ______ forth into an unknown world. (A) residing (B) declining (C) venturing (D) fascinating
42. It may be necessary to employ a sign language ______ if a parent or child is deaf.
(A) resident (B) filter (C) resume (D) interpreter
43. A ______ is a very large area of ice that moves slowly down a slope or valley or over a wide area of land. (A) province (B) glacier (C) milestone (D) celebrity 44. We always ______to provide our customers with the best service.
(A) publish (B) recommend (C) endeavor (D) contemplate
45. Henry reckons over eighty people were there but I think that's a slight ______.
(A) exaggeration (B) masterpiece (C) architecture (D) destination
46. The country’s economy is mainly ______ and depends on crops like coffee and rice. (A) overwhelming (B) agricultural (C) substantial (D) extraordinary
47. There is a ______ difference between these two pictures.
(A) compelling (B) exotic (C) contemporary (D) subtle
48. She______ her mother’s good looks and her father’s bad temper.
(A) equated (B) inherited (C) refunded (D) possessed
49. If she hadn’t been so ______she might not have gotten the job.
(A) ethical (B) spectacular (C) ecological (D) persistent 50. It was sheer ______ that we were staying in the same hotel.
(A) highlight (B) coincidence(C) version (D) opponent
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Appendix C: Post-test /Delayed Post-test
POST TEST Class Number Name 1. A collection of paintings by Picasso is on ______at the Museum of Art.
(A) laundry (B) creature (C) exhibition (D) technique 2. Andy’s promotion means more money and more ______.
(A) ambassador (B) suggestion (C) significance (D) responsibility 3. There’s a tornado! A man is stuck in a tree! It’s a(n) ______! Call 911!
(A) survival (B) strategy (C) scholar (D) emergency 4. This is a high-quality product at a very ______ price.
(A) affordable (B) impressive (C) critical (D) magnificent
5. When you make something visible or make it public information, you ______it.
(A) reveal (B) sting (C) tend (D) freeze
6. I used to play golf but I ______ to tennis to get more exercise.
(A) departed (B) switched (C) endured (D) tilted(5)
7. The studies ______ a clear link between smoking and lung cancer.
(A) accomplish (B) conquer (C) incorporate (D) demonstrate 8. There have been doubts about the______ of the report.
(A) civilization (B) contribution (C) accuracy (D) landscape 9. Sorry to ______ you, but I have an important message to tell you.
(A) explore (B) attach (C) breed (D) disturb
10.The dizzy feeling in Mary’s head ______, and she knew she was about to pass out.
(A) intensified (B) concentrated (C) isolated (D) estimated
11. Many people believe that love is a(n) ______ ingredient in a marriage.
(A) appropriate (B) essential (C) guilty (D) lively
12. The murderer may have tried to burn the bodies in an attempt to destroy the ______. (A) operation (B) evidence (C) philosopher (D) equipment
13. Exercise is an ideal way to relieve ______ after a hard day.
(A) tension (B) legend (C) pioneer (D) volunteer
14. Helen had ______ while she was taking a walk beside the river.
(A) enthusiasm (B) embarrassment (C) inspiration (D) percentage 15. This old piano had been her mother’s most treasured ______.
(A) enthusiasm (B) embarrassment (C) inspiration (D) percentage 15. This old piano had been her mother’s most treasured ______.