LINGO ZING-THE LANGUAGE LEARNING MOBILE APP: A REVIEW

Knowledge of another language other than the first is now a universal phenomenon and is synonymous with prestige in social circles as it particularizes an individual from the rest of the community and can ensure acceleration on the professional front by providing more job opportunities. Language learning classes have boomed up as a very profitable business in the last decade or so and with the advent of expansion in technology, it’s easily available through recent technologies such as MALL (Mobile-Assisted Language Learning) and language learning applications software (apps). There has been a corrivaliry among App developers to design the most efficient apps to facilitate consequential language learning by focusing on oral production and auditory reception to increase language learners' communicative competence. And imagine all these features are combined with the fun of reading a comic book that too audio enabled. Sounds fun and turned into a reality. Through the present paper, the investigator has tried to review a mobile application for language learning named LingoZing, a type of comic audiobook, which is one of a kind mobile application for learning a foreign language in a leisurable fun way.