The Impact of Augmented Reality (AR) on Vocabulary Acquisition and Student Motivation
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The study investigates how the use of an augmented reality application can affect vocabulary acquisition and motivation of secondary education students using a mixed method approach. The topic is certainly interesting and within the scope of the journal and the particular special issue. The standard of English is quite high and only minor changes and corrections need to be made. Additionally, the text is well structured and flows.
The abstract presents all the required information in a clear manner. There is an abbreviation (CG – Control Group) being used that it needs to be explained. The authors present a brief description of AR and its use in educational settings. Although the objectives and hypothesis are clearly defined, I believe that section 3 should be presented before the related work section (Section 2).
Regarding Section 2, I believe that the authors should provide the methodology they used to select the articles to be analyzed. In its current form, it seems like the selection of the articles was done in a no methodical way although the articles themselves were related to their study. Therefore, a more systematic approach on how the studies were selected must be presented. Additionally, the authors merely present a short description of each of the studies they analyzed. There is no synthesis of the results of the related studies but just statements about how they were conducted and a brief statement of their results. I believe that this particular section should be thoroughly reworked.
As far as the “method and participants” section is concerned, the authors present their study process, material used, and the research procedure and stages comprehensibly and include all the necessary tools used in the appendix section. Maybe it would be useful for the readers if some pictures from the experiment were also included and not just 3D model representations. In sections 5.1 and 5.3 (5.4) Qualitative analysis, the authors could make more connections to the literature as they satisfactorily did in sections 5.2 and 5.3.
In the “conclusions and implications” section the authors go over and discuss their main findings and hypotheses thoroughly and, in many cases, make connections with the literature. Although the results are certainly interesting and useful, I believe that the authors should better highlight their novelty in comparison to the other related studies.
All in all, the effort the authors have put is evident and I believe that by addressing the above-mentioned concerns, the article will be more impactful.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Overall, the paper is well written and easy to understand. The researchers have explored an interesting topic that will be of interest to many researchers in related fields. I think it can be accepted with minor revisions, and my revisions are as follows.
1. The researchers conducted a detailed literature review, but lacked a more detailed discussion and summary of this literature (mainly the authors' perspectives).
2. This is a very interesting study, and I think it needs a special section - Significance of the study.
3. there are research limitations to this study, and although the authors have mentioned them, I think a separate section is needed to address them, and in more detail.
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Reviewer 3 Report
1. English language should be improved thoroughly. There are many grammar errors in abstract and main text. 2. The abbreviation criterion should be followed. 3. The AR effects on different students, i.e. kindergartners, primary school students, high school students, college students, is varied. More analysis can be given based on the characteristics of these students for attitude, effect and impact. Maybe different materials of AR, e.g. animation, text, picture, also have impact on the language learning. 4. The table title should be on the top of the table.
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Reviewer 4 Report
Please clarify with more detailed information
”further research in secondary education is needed to clarify these issues, particularly through longitudinal studies based on vocabulary performance and the use of other digital tools in different settings.”
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
I suggest acception of the paper.
