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

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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

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