Volume 6 Issue.1: 2019 Page No 36-53
https://doi.org/10.33329/ijelr.6119.36
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER AND VISUAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION: A MIXED METHOD INQUIRING
Dr.HOSSEIN SIAHPOOSH1, MANSOUREH MOJAVERIAN2
1,2Department of English Language, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of graphic organizer vocabulary instruction on Iranian vocabulary learning ability. For this purpose, 80 learners of English participated in this study. All the groups were taught the same textbooks. Oxford Placement Test was used in order to get homogenized groups of participants. They were also given a vocabulary pre test, to measure the learners’ initial knowledge of the target words. The treatment procedure took ten sessions and thirty-minutes each session. During each session, the students in the experimental groups were presented with 10 new words' pictures on A4 papers. In the control group, the learners got the list of the new vocabulary with the synonyms and definition. At the end of the course all the groups sat for the post test of lexical knowledge. However the participants are asked to answer a questionnaire to investigate their attitudes toward learning style. Then the statistical analysis was run through Independent-sample T-test also qualitative analysis was done. The results showed that the experimental group which was taught with graphic organizers outperformed the control group which was taught with a traditional method. Key words: Graphic organizer, vocabulary learning, Mixed method, Visual learning
