THE USE OF MOBILE – ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN TEACHING AND LEARNING TAMIL GRAMMAR

Abstract

CThe rapid increase of mobile technology provides easy access for learner’s regardless of
place and time. Numerous apps are developed and utilized for learning grammar. This paper
focuses on the achievement of students in Tamil grammar after using the mobile application.
The objective of the study is to identify the effectiveness of teaching Tamil grammar through
mobile technology. A total of 10 secondary school students in the study used the application
for five weeks. Data collected from the “Tamil Grammar APP” using pre test and post test
which comprises questions on Tamil grammar. Quantitative analysis was used to study the
data. The findings obtained from the quantitative data showed the improvement of the
students in gaining Tamil grammar knowledge through the use of the mobile app. The result
emphasized the importance of providing Tamil language learners with resources to assist
their grammar learning. Furthermore, the result showed the continuous positive attitude of the
participants towards learning Tamil grammar using mobile technology. The finding of the
research corroborates that mobile application assisted learning proves to be efficient. This
research provides guidelines to the educators to vary their pedagogy strategy due to the
technology growth especially in Tamil language grammar learning which is often executed
with the same text books and exercise books. The study will also help to increase the design
and development of Tamil grammar based educational apps since there are only few apps that
serve the purpose. Despite its growing utilization, mobile app learning is still not viewed as
the main source for grammar learning compared to personal computers. Hence, an in-depth
analysis on this aspect is needed as a future research to contribute to a better mobile app
learning environment.