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    An Evaluation of the' Effectiveness of ;lodern Vocabulary Teaching ~2thods and thu Extent to Which thusa ~rc Implemented in Freshman Eng1i\sh COUrses
    (Addis Ababa Universiy, 1988-06) Berhane, Dessie; Despatie, Dr . Gerard
    -f he purpose of this r~s2arch is to 2valu ate th e effectiveness of modern voc abul ary teaching methods and th& ex tent to which th e se are implemented in Fr&shmJn EnQlish Courses. For th is pur pose, the researcher imrle~ent0d these modern vocabul ary tea ching methods by conductin0 actual teachin s for an Experimenta l group. TherQ was a l so 1not~~r group known as th e controll ed group where teach ing W3S c ond uct ~d following the methods that a r ~ curY":nt~y in use in the t"achinq of Fresh man English Courses. An a ttempt to find out if th2ra was a difference between the two groups was made by an Ddmin i str~t ion of b pr~ - test which ~ n abled the researcher to accep t the hypothesis that the two groups hRve no statistically si1nificant diffe rences of background in their ~nowledge of vocabulary laarninn strate ' t~ • • T~Qn, a six -week teaching of J material of a l most the sam2 con: :: ~t was cond. __ ~ed fo:" both the ~: roups , thou Clh the ~eti1ods of t~aching differect sub ~ t a n t ially . Subsequently, a rost-test of th~ S3me natur~ was given both to th e Exper i ment)l Qnd Controll ed gr ou?s I t the sarne time. The results of ~hu Po st -Test of both groups w~re Cmpared and a mea n diff e r ence (f ft sian ific ant stati s, ic11 .31ue wa s manife sted. The mcan of the Exrcrim~ntal group was much higher than the ~ean of th e controlled group a nd su ch a differEnc~ c ~ uld h ~ v e come due to the modern vocab u~ary t : achOng lathoJs with which the Expcrimental rroup was favour~d. H~vin1 h1d the same b~ckqround knowledq e of strJte gi es of voc ~bulft ry 1 3 a~ring at tne b2~1~ n i~ s. the diff er2nce cou ld be sftid due to not~ing e lse, bu~ t~~ im plE me ntJtion Of the modern ~o -abu lary t ~ 't' -" 9 mct~odo:ogy wh~ch Mave armed th~ EXP Q ~im c ntal Jroup ,Iitn th e need ed strat eg ies with which they can affGctively t"c~le ony problcQ of a voc 3bu:ary encounter .