the study of the influence of rehearsal strategies and phonological awareness training on iranian students ability in foreign vocabulary learning

the main purpose of this semi - experimental study was to examine the effects of rehearsal strategies training on second language vocabulary learning . in particular , four training methods were examined : ( a ) vocal rehearsal , ( b ) subvocal rehearsal , ( c ) vocal and subvocal rehearsal, and ( d ) no rehearsal . one hundred and sixty - two undergraduate freshmen ( four intact classes from four fields of study ) at hormozgan university participated in this study . pretest and post - test vocabulary checklists were administered and the anova analyses was conducted to identify any significant difference among the four groups . the results indicate that all three methods resulted in significant vocabulary gains . furthermore , the difference between vocal rehearsal and subvocal rehearsal was not significant ; the participants in the third method did significantly better than the others .