Wordup Mobile Application – an Entertaining Form of Perfecting Your English Vocabulary

Combining innovative ideas with the latest digital technology has enabled learners worldwide to perfect their English in a revolutionary way. This paper presents WordUp mobile application for learning new English words and improving vocabulary. This app has succeeded in ranking all the words in the English language in order of how useful they are. WordUp first detects knowledge gaps and then creates a personalized learning plan that focuses on one word at a time, always ensuring that most useful word is being learnt first. The aim of this paper is to examine students' views on the usefulness of this app. In accordance with the set goals and hypotheses, the qualitative research, in the form of a focus group, has been conducted on a representative sample of the student population of Singidunum University in Belgrade. The study results confirmed that students want to learn English vocabulary in an innovative and fun way. Their enthusiasm leads the authors to believe that mobile applications for learning foreign languages should be introduced into curricula. An important finding of this study is that WordUp is quite often used instead of a dictionary. This app is suitable for all people willing to improve their English vocabulary in a flexible and dynamic way.