Malaysian Students’ Experience and Motivation using Web-Based Activities to Learn English Language Vocabulary

Abstract

The place of technology in teaching and learning is established. However, there is the need to consider motivational variables in the use of technology as relating to language learning. This paper thus explored the Malaysian students’ experience and motivation using web-based activities in learning English vocabulary. Questionnaire was administered on the selected sample of the pupils and the data were analyzed using simple percentage. Finding revealed that the students had adequate experience using technology and felt motivated using web-based activities in learning vocabulary. These findings show that Malaysian’s status in terms of using technology to solve classroom problem. It was this concluded that the use of technology related activities and applications should be encouraged.