abstractthe present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate iranian efl learners' writing ability. for this study, 84 iranian learners, studying english as a foreign language in bayan institute, iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control ...

The purpose of this research is to improve students’ ability in teaching vocabulary through Total Physical Response method. method was classroom action research, which conducted two cycles. focus the 8th grade 15 Junior high school Manokwari West Papua Province, Indonesia first semester, year 2020/2021. instruments were pre-test, observation sheet, and lesson plan. findings shows that result da...

abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

At Tran Quoc Toan High School, when students learn English, they usually faced with many difficulties not only in specific language skills but also in vocabulary memorizing. Because of their learning habits and learning strategies, they failed to memorize words for a long time and to recall words when necessary. Based on literature review, it is found that semantic mapping has had good effects ...

We compared the effectiveness of two spelling interventions: one focused on morphological structure and one emphasizing word meanings,, on spelling acquisition in French speaking children in 3 and 5 grades. The morphology intervention led to significantly greater improvement in spelling than the vocabulary intervention, especially for children in grade 5. To compare the long-term effects of the...

This paper introduces the idea of using data-driven vocabulary files as a teaching practice for the course “English for Tourism 3” taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of Split. First, the design of the vocabulary file is explained as well as the rationale behind the exercise. Then, the analysis of the students’ response to the assigned exercises is presented. Finally, given the compl...

This research is aimed to test whether presentation of metaphorical connections among senses of words is significantly effective to improve nonEnglish majors’ memory of new words. Three experiments were conducted after pilot teaching and a pretext, in which two meanings of each word (totally 30 words) were offered to the EG and CG respectively through the proposed approach and traditional appro...

This study investigated the amount of incidental vocabulary learning through comprehension-focused reading of short stories and explicit instruction to this goal.  Forty male high school students were selected randomly, and divided into two groups of twenty.  One group of these students was given five 400-word-level short stories to read with the purpose of comprehension, and the students in th...