Real-world problem scenario

You are an English teacher at a high school in Korea. Your school is located in a small or mid-sized city where students have limited access to private English education. Many students at your school have relatively low English proficiency and low motivation to learn English.

One day, one of your students comes to you for advice. The student says that English mock exam reading passages are too difficult because there are too many unfamiliar words. Although he bought a vocabulary book and spends a lot of time memorizing words, vocabulary study takes almost the entire day, and he forgets most of the words by the next day. He feels that learning vocabulary is difficult, boring, and ineffective.

As the student’s English teacher, design a vocabulary learning app that the student can use independently outside the classroom. Your app should be based on research-informed principles of effective vocabulary learning and should provide a specific, realistic way to help the student learn, review, and retain English words more effectively.