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- Title
The Effect of Task Type on Iranian Advanced EFL Learners' Vocabulary Learning.
- Authors
Ahour, Touran; Dogolsara, Shokoufeh Abbasi
- Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effect of teaching two types of tasks (multiple-choice item and sentence-writing) on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary learning. For this purpose, sixty students were selected out of ninety through the administration of a Comprehensive English Language Test (CELT).They were junior translator trainees with the age range of 22-26. They were then divided into two comparison groups. A pretest of vocabulary was administered to both groups. Then both groups were given a five-session treatment. One group was taught vocabulary based on sentence-writing task, and the other group was taught vocabulary through multiple-choice task. After the treatment, the same version of vocabulary test was given to both groups as posttest to check the effectiveness of the treatments. The results of paired-samples and independent samples t-tests revealed that the effect of sentence-writing task on learners' vocabulary learning was more than that of the multiple-choice task. The implications and recommendations will also be presented.
- Subjects
VOCABULARY education; IRANIAN students; ENGLISH as a foreign language; READING comprehension; ENGLISH language examinations
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2015, Vol 5, Issue 3, p657
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/tpls.0503.29