Retention and Acquisition of New Vocabularies using Applying Review Value Calculation for English as Secondary Language

Vocabularies, the core of any language, is probably the most challenging and time-consuming part of learning a foreign language in a diverse and dispersed community of learners. This study proposes an approach that can help a learner build up his/her English vocabulary volume by intensive article reading, the inclusion and the used of Google Cloud Natural Language API and Glosbe Dictionary API, and the use of review-value-calculation computing technique. The review-value-calculation were able to determine the number of days where the new words should be reviewed and be part of the long-term memory. The result shows that students were able to increase their word acquisition skills by applying technology and computing. Students were able to retain words fast and understand better, by employing an interactive monitoring process. If the system is implemented carefully in commercial environments, it can hypothetically produce a faster technique in acquiring new vocabularies for international students.