Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary

The purpose of this paper is to impart interesting facts about an online vocabulary game namely OnVac, which can be used to learn engineering and technology vocabulary. E-mail interviews conducted with 32 students on a voluntary basis in a public university in Malaysia revealed positive perceptions...

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Main Authors:	Zuraina, Ali, Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai, Faridah, Hamzah, Ruhil Amal, Azmuddin, Nur Syafawati, Sabuan
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Published:	Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2014
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spelling	ump-50942018-02-12T03:52:39Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5094/ Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary Zuraina, Ali Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai Faridah, Hamzah Ruhil Amal, Azmuddin Nur Syafawati, Sabuan PE English The purpose of this paper is to impart interesting facts about an online vocabulary game namely OnVac, which can be used to learn engineering and technology vocabulary. E-mail interviews conducted with 32 students on a voluntary basis in a public university in Malaysia revealed positive perceptions of OnVac as an interesting tool to learn engineering and technology vocabulary. It implied that online games such as OnVac could facilitate university students to enrich their engineering and technical vocabulary. Since the vocabularies are selected from their core engineering and technical reference books, it seemed that OnVac was able to facilitate the students in understanding of their core subjects better. The study also showed evidence that OnVac enabled them to retain the engineering and technology vocabulary for both short- and long-term recalls Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5094/1/pbmsk-2013-zuraina-10IdeasEffectiveVocabulary.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5094/4/pbmsk-2014-zuraina-10.pdf Zuraina, Ali and Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai and Faridah, Hamzah and Ruhil Amal, Azmuddin and Nur Syafawati, Sabuan (2014) Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary. International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics (IJLEAL), 1. pp. 33-44. ISSN 2289-7208 (print); 2289-9294 (online) http://ijleal.ump.edu.my/images/IJLEAL001.ALI.et.al.pdf
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description	The purpose of this paper is to impart interesting facts about an online vocabulary game namely OnVac, which can be used to learn engineering and technology vocabulary. E-mail interviews conducted with 32 students on a voluntary basis in a public university in Malaysia revealed positive perceptions of OnVac as an interesting tool to learn engineering and technology vocabulary. It implied that online games such as OnVac could facilitate university students to enrich their engineering and technical vocabulary. Since the vocabularies are selected from their core engineering and technical reference books, it seemed that OnVac was able to facilitate the students in understanding of their core subjects better. The study also showed evidence that OnVac enabled them to retain the engineering and technology vocabulary for both short- and long-term recalls
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author	Zuraina, Ali Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai Faridah, Hamzah Ruhil Amal, Azmuddin Nur Syafawati, Sabuan
author_facet	Zuraina, Ali Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai Faridah, Hamzah Ruhil Amal, Azmuddin Nur Syafawati, Sabuan
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title	Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary
title_short	Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary
title_full	Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary
title_fullStr	Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary
title_full_unstemmed	Ten Interesting Facts about OnVac: A Tool to Learn Engineering and Technology Vocabulary
title_sort	ten interesting facts about onvac: a tool to learn engineering and technology vocabulary
publisher	Universiti Malaysia Pahang
publishDate	2014
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