This paper was an attempt to find out the effectiveness of mind-mapping technique on 4 th graders’ vocabulary retention at Doi Can Primary School. A total 40 students participated in this study.Two instruments which were questionnaires and pre-test post- test scores used before after applying teaching vocabulary. The findings data analysis showed that can help improve their abilities memorizing...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of visual aids on elementary Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary learning. To achieve the aim of the study, 60 elementary EFL learners were selected based on their performance on proficiency test. After administering the pretest, the participants of the experimental group received vocabulary visually. The teacher used different kinds of strategies such as...

This study is aimed at improving the students’ vocabulary achievement through anagram. was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this 2009/2010 ten grade students SMA Negeri 1 Pancur Batu which consisted 30 students. For collecting data, instrument used quantitative data (vocabulary test) and qualitative (diary notes, interview sheet observation sheet). Based on it found ...

This paper discusses the design and the development of the multilingual e-learning materials covering 17 different languages. The project is now being carried out by the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) under the auspices of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The system covers four modules such as pronunciation, dialogue, grammar...

Background & Aims:  Recently, the role of English has shifted from the more general perspective of every day usage to a narrower situation and task specific perspective. Many experts in the field argue that Learners need English for a particular task or a field of study and successful courses are those that concentrate on one particular area in teaching English.  Accordingly, the pr...

many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. this study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. a total of 120 iranian intermed...

College English teaching in China aims at developing students’ communicative competence, in which vocabulary size plays an important role. According to Basic Requirements in the College English Syllabus (1999), Chinese university students’ vocabulary size should be 4,200 words. From investigation and a study of the research literature, the author finds that the deficiency of College English tea...