The Effect of drawing pictures on Improving Young EFL Learners’ Word acquisition

English

Current advances in English as a second /foreign language acquisition highpoint that non-native speakers aside from grammar and pronunciation need a solid foundation of vocabulary. Most of the times they have problems in expressing themselves which result from lack of word knowledge. The present study was an attempt to find a method to teach new English words to Iranian young EFL leaners. As a result, the researcher decides on the mentioned quasi- experimental study which lasted for one academic semester. There were two groups; one as control and another as experimental. The researcher took the advantage of using pictures to teach new words in the experimental group. The results indicated that the experimental group outperformed in the word post-test. That would be due to the effect of photos and pictures in creating an imagination of words, namely through using pictures in teaching new items, learners could connect the words and the objects together. The collected data was analyzed by means of SPSS.

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