The Effect of Explicit Theme-based Instruction on the Vocabulary Learning Performance of Iranian EFL Learners

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Parastoo Alizadeh Oghyanous ^{1 *}

1 - Faculty of Foreign Languages, ,Kharazmi University, Tehran

Received: 2018-04-07 Accepted : 2018-05-08 Published : 2018-06-01

Keywords: vocabulary instruction, explicit instruction, Vocabulary, text&rsquo, s theme,

Abstract :

Vocabulary has been one of the main components of foreign language learning and still manybelieve that vocabulary knowledge is the most essential part of language ability. The present studyaimed at investigating the effect of explicit instruction through theme-based instruction on thevocabulary learning of EFL learners. The participants of the study included 72 Iranian EFLlearners, half of whom served as the experimental and the other half as the control group.Vocabulary knowledge of the participants was measured using the Vocabulary Level Test byCambridge University before and after the treatment. The results of statistical analysis indicatedthat both explicit instruction through text thematiztion and regular teaching of vocabulary wereeffective on the learning of vocabulary but explicit instruction through text-theme procedure hada significantly better effect compared to regular instruction on the learning of the new vocabularyitems.