IMPROVING LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE THROUGH SMARTPHONE IN HIGHER EDUCATION Reka Roefika Novita Putri English Department-Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta rekaroefika@gmail.com ABSTRACT Smartphone is device you should have in 4.0 Era. Students prefer smartphone than book lately for their method in learning. Using smartphone to improve linguistic knowledges it is an new way to stimulate students, using smartphone in teaching make learning more modern and new style in learning. The aims of this paper were to introduce smartphone is new way to improve linguistic knowledge in higher education. Using smartpone gains students to pay attention to their lecturer. The advantages using smartphone in improving linguistic knowledges they easy could know Defiinition of Linguistic, What are Communication, How they Speak, The origin of Language, How They Pronounciation the Words Well. The way you use smartphone in learning is you install application, games which is related with Linguistic such as DuoLingo, Basic Linguistic, asounds, Linguistic application, games word collection. Using smartphone in learning also make your students know about technology and make them not outdated. Your student will change their thinking, hacking their mind and increase the skills for their workforce. Keywords : Smartphone, Linguistic, Knowledge, Higher Education, Students INTRODUCTION Lecturer use smartphone is technique to teach in classroom because classroom will be fun and students easy to perceived the knowledge, this technique make teacher gain the attention from students. We are in 4.0 Era always use book, PPT for method in learning is allowed but you should mix your technique in learning with technology. According to Dr.