Ashraf Joze Vaziri, Kourosh Akef

Integrated, Isolated, and Synonym Generation Vocabulary Instruction

The Effects on EFL Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Attention to vocabulary and finding appropriate strategy to learn new vocabularies has always been challenging for learners or even teachers. Researchers' consideration to vocabulary has been growing since mid. 1980s. In this regard, various researchers and teachers stated one or some instructions are more helpful for learners. This study is an attempt to investigate the effect of Isolated, Integrated, and Synonym Generation vocabulary instruction on writing skill among Intermediate EFL learners. For this purpose, 77 male and female learners were chosen through administering a piloted Preliminary English Test. They were then divided into three experimental groups and each of the groups was taught vocabulary through one of the mentioned instructions. At the end of the study, all participants were given a writing test. One-way ANOVA on the posttest demonstrating that the learners in the Integrated and Synonym Generation groups benefited significantly in terms of improving their writing ability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm
• ISBN-13: 9783659354397
• ISBN-10: 3659354392
• Artikelnr.: 37472823

Autorenporträt

Ashraf Joze Vaziri has a BA in English Translation from IAU-South Tehran and MA in TEFL from IAU-Central Tehran. Her areas of research interest include SLT, vocabulary, and translation. Dr.Kourosh Akef is an assistant professor in IAU-Central Tehran and his research interests concern EFL writing, TESL/TEFL and translation studies.