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LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY USING WEB-BASED LEITNER BOX WITH SOCIAL NETWORK Yunxia Gao, Zaidatun Tasir*, Jamalludin Harun, Nurul Farhana Jumaat Department of Educational Sciences, Mathematics and Creative Multimedia, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. Graphical abstract

Article history Received 15 July 2015 Received in revised form 1 October 2015 Accepted 25 October 2015

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Abstract The aim of the research is to explore the impact of the web-based Leitner Box which is enhanced with social network, particularly Facebook on English vocabulary learning. This research used mixed research design and the data were collected both in qualitative and quantitative ways. The instruments include questionnaire, semistructured interviews, and performance tests. 35 university’s students were chosen randomly as the respondents for the questionnaire and 30 students from English class were chosen purposively to do the pre-test and post-test. From the findings, it is discovered that students agreed they have problems in learning vocabulary (mean = 3.98). The web-based Leitner Box has a significant positive impact on English vocabulary learning (p