The Effect of T-Coding on Iranian EFL Learners' Vocabulary Retention

سال انتشار: 1395
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 9 مرداد 1395

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Vocabulary is a prerequisite skill in learning to read and write. Language learners use vocabulary as a mean of reception and expression to acquire and convey meaning. Several students declare that they usually memorize words through repetition, making notes, explanation, translation, using flash cards, and other conventional techniques. Therefore, being able to remember new and unfamiliar word is outstanding for their success. Language learners may encounter some difficulties when applying such strategies, this may consequently lower their motivation. Because of that, it is required for students to know some techniques to learn, retain, and recall vocabulary in different conditions. In this study, an attempt was made to find out the effectiveness of T-Coding (a new version of mnemonics) on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary retention. For this purpose, 80 Iranian EFL learners at intermediate level of language proficiency, were selected and participated in this study. There was no limitation regarding their age. To ascertain the homogeneity of the learners, the researchers carried out a Nelson Proficiency Test. The participants were assigned into two groups of 40, experimental and control. The experimental group was instructed 150 pre-selected words through T-Coding, and the same vocabularies were given to the control group in a conventional way. The findings revealed that instructing words through T-Coding method is much more influential than through the conventional method, it means that those who learned words via T-Coding method were retrieved well both in the process of immediate and delayed retention.

نویسندگان

Aram Reza Sadeghi Beniss

Department of English, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Tahereh Ehsani Moghadam

Department of English, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran