An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Current Techniques in Vocabulary Teaching to Grade Four Students
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1990-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Thl:::plurpose of thi,s ~tudy was to find out the extent in
which techniqu8s such as diala9ues and qdmos can be appl led
in ba1anc ing the teach ing of vocabu lary to elementar'y gr'ade
for students in Addis Ababa.
In or-der-to test. this, an experirllentwas carried out in
which 160 subjects were selected from the two schools. The
subjects were divided into four sections. Two of the
sections formed the control group who were taught by using
the te>:t Ensl ish For' New Ethiopia. The other two sections
formed the study group and were taught using techniques such
as dialogues and vocabulary gaffi8stogether with some selected
tf:?chniquesstill in use in the English For New Ethiopia.
A pr'e-test '<liasgiven to both the cont r-ol and study
groups to determine wether th~re was any significant
difference between them or not. Statistical results,
however, schowed that there was no significant difference.
After a duration of eight weeks of teaching, a post test
was conducted to both the control and study groups. The
scores were analysed and compared. The analysis showed that
the mean score of the study group was significantly greater
than that of the control grĀ·oup.
the techniques selected in
successful.
Thus, it was concluded that
teaching vocabulary were
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Vocabulary Teaching