한국 대학생의 영어학습 앱 현황과 수요 분석

Analysis of the Current Status and Demand for English Learning Apps for Korean College Students

(Purpose) The purpose of this study is to understand the college students preferences in mobile applications for learning English. (Design/methodology/approach) The survey was conducted with 30 college students on the 13th week of the spring semester of 2020, which was conducted online. The questionnaire consists of questions related to English skills they prefer to learn through apps and app functions they need when using. 67 applications, which are for the youth and adults and have downloaded more than 1,000,000, were investigated to find out their functions and contents. (Findings) Among 67 English education applications, conversation, various skills, grammar, vocabulary, game/quiz, and reading was frequent in order and in terms of functions, voice recognition, AI, audio, text, video, realtime chatting, and AR was frequent in order. As a result of the analysis of the survey, respondents preferred to study conversation, test preparation, vocabulary, translation, grammar, pronunciation, dictionary, and realtime chatting through apps. The result of the study also show that they preferred video, voice recognition, text, AI, audio, VR, and AR in terms of functions. (Research implications or Originality) Therefore, the findings of this research suggest that more applications for English learning need to be developed, and more various functions be introduce.