The impact of using problem-solving puzzles on Iranian intermediate EFL learners' lexical knowledge

Journal of Teaching English Lnaguage Studies

مقاله 4، دوره 4، شماره 4، مرداد 2016، صفحه 52-65   

نویسندگان

Ramin Rahmany¹؛ Elham Raji Lahiji²

¹Department of English Language, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, IRAN

²Department of English Language, Tonekabon Branch Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IRAN.

چکیده

This study tried to investigate the impact of using problem-solving puzzles on
Iranian Intermediate EFL learners' lexical knowledge. At first a homogenous
sample of 30 Intermediate EFL learners attending in the third grade of Shahed
high school in Lahijan were selected and they were randomly divided into two
groups, as experimental group and control group. In the first session, the pretest
was administrated to determine the significant differences between the two groups
and revealed they were homogenous. The scores were kept being compared with
the second set of scores in posttests. The control group received traditional and
regular procedure. The experimental group was exposed with some different kinds
of puzzles with some special training by using new techniques to learn
L2vocabulary more effectively. The treatment lasted 10 sessions. At the end, the
data was analyzed via calculating an Independent Samples T-test between post test
scores of the experimental and the control group. The result of the test showed that
the experimental group did not show a subtle improvement in lexical knowledge
after the instruction.The students had fun but the analysis is proved that the null
hypothesis was supported in this study because of the same results of both groups.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Vocabulary؛ language؛ Teaching L2vocabulary؛ Puzzles؛ Problem solving puzzles

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