Abstract:

The present study aims at developing English vocabulary acquisition and word gallery of ESL students in India with the aid of technology-based learning. The animation videos always excite young learners and incorporating them in the language classroom has proven to be useful. Basic everyday vocabulary has been taught to the ESL students from the low profile of socio-economic development who is the first generation learners, who are the first learners in their family to learn the English language as their second language. The study used a constructivist approach as the theory of the research and used a one-group pretest-posttest design on 23 students from Vellore district, Tamilnadu, India. The results of the study ascertain that technology-mediated learning using animations help young learners to improve vocabulary acquisition.

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