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- Title
A Good Way for Teaching Vocabulary.
- Authors
Mirkamali, Fahimeh; Maghsoudi, Mojtaba; Azizmohammadi, Fatemeh
- Abstract
The present research was intended to investigate the effectiveness of foreign language vocabulary acquisition through pictures and short stories. The subjects were divided into four groups as follows: a) 15 males in age range of 8-10 b) 15 females in age range of 8-10 c) 15 males in age range of 20-30 d) 15 females in age range of 20-30. All the participants came from the same linguistic background. In all the groups vocabulary items were presented through pictures and short stories. The treatment of the study took five sessions. The researcher used two similar tests as pretest and posttest. Each of them consisted of 40 vocabularies. After the treatment, the posttest was administered. Then the statistical technique of two-way ANOVA was utilized to analyze the collected data. The results revealed that: 1. Both pictures and short stories are useful in teaching vocabulary items.
- Subjects
IRAN; VOCABULARY education; LANGUAGE acquisition; PHOTOGRAPHS; LANGUAGE arts (Higher); MODERN language students; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Language in India, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 4, p146
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article