Involvement Load of Vocabulary Tasks IELTS preparation Vocabulary Course Books
الموضوعات : نشریه مطالعات آموزش زبان انگلیسیMaryam Sadeghi Garmaroudi 1 , Mohammad Aghajanzadeh 2
1 - English Language Teaching, Payame noor University, Tehran
2 - English Language Department, Payame Noor University, Rasht, Gilan, Iran
الکلمات المفتاحية: vocabulary learning strategies, involvement load hypothesis, Involvement Load Index,
ملخص المقالة :
The importance of vocabulary is undeniable. EFL learners need sufficient lexicon in order to be a competitive speaker. Lots of strategies have been proposed. The concept of involvement load was first introduced by Hulstijn and Laufer (2001). They believed that deeper explanation of lexical information will result in better retention of them. The present study aimed at finding the involvement load indexes of vocabulary tasks used in two popular IELTS vocabulary books. It also intended to find the most applied vocabulary learning strategies by IELTS learners. Data were gathered from the intensive analysis of 20 selected task of “Oxford Word Skills” and “Advanced Vocabulary In Use”. Also 50 IELTS candidates were asked to fill a questionnaire. The results showed that books applied a variety of activities. The maximum index was 4 and the minimum was 1. The analysis showed that consolidating was used for the tasks with higher involvement load indexes. Tasks with lower involvement load indexes had other strategies like discovery. Data analysis revealed that learners implied different strategies in learning vocabularies. The most popular strategy was germane to determination strategies, which are clustered under discovery Strategy.
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