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" Implementation of the Keyword Method to Improve Foreign Language Vocabulary Recall among Iranian Learners of English "
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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| Record Number
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155327
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4306p
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4306
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| Main Entry
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Emami Pana, Mona
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Implementation of the Keyword Method to Improve Foreign Language Vocabulary Recall among Iranian Learners of English
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| Supervisor
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; Akbar Afghari
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; Reza Biria
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| College
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Khorasgan
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, 2012=1391
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M.A
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| field of study
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, Teaching English
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| College
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, Khorasgan
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, 1391/06/20, 1390/00/00
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xiv , 131p.: tab
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830
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| Abstract
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of the keyword mnemonic technique on the retention of English vocabulary among Iranian EFL learners in natural classroom setting and to explore if the keyword method could enhance the learners' motivation toward foreign language learning .Moreover, it explored the difference between the improvement of male and female EFL learners in terms of learning vocabulary through the keyword method. Totally, 90 intermediate-level EFL male and female learners (in three groups, two experimental and one control group), were selected to participate in this study. Intermediate-level EFL learners were selected using the Jahad Daneshgahi institution placement test. The experimental groups received the keyword strategy training while the control group focused on the conventional process of vocabulary learning. In the experimental group (1) the keywords were provided by the teacher while the learners in the experimental group (2) were responsible to provide the keywords on their own. For data collection, a pre-test, an immediate post-test and a questionnaire were conducted. Also for the data analysis, various statistical measures were applied including descriptive statistics, correlation, T-Test, ANOVA, UNANOVA and regression analysis. A quantitative analysis of vocabulary pretest and vocabulary immediate posttest and the questionnaire scores was conducted. The statistical results showed that the performance of the intermediate-level students in the experimental groups was not statistically different from the performance of the learners in the control group. Also, male and female participants in the experimental groups did not perform differently while applying the keyword method. In other hands, they benefited equally from applying the keyword method in vocabulary recall. Finally, analysis of the attitudinal questionnaire carried out in this study demonstrated that the majority of the participants had particularly positive attitudes towards the application of the keyword method as a vocabulary learning technique and while applying the keyword method in the classroom; those participants who provide the keywords and the associative images for each vocabulary items by themselves obtained better scores on the motivation questionnaire. Keywords: Vocabulary retention; Mnemonic strategies; Keyword method; Motivation.
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4306.pdf
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| Title and statement of responsibility and
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Implementation of the Keyword Method to Improve Foreign Language Vocabulary Recall among Iranian Learners of English [Thesis]; Akbar Afghari; Reza Biria
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Bibliography :p. 101-114
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