The Effect of Teaching Vocabulary through Synonymous, Semantically Unrelated, and Hyponym Sets on EFL Learners’ Retention

The Effect of Teaching Vocabulary through Synonymous, Semantically Unrelated, and Hyponym Sets on EFL Learners’ Retention

Many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. This study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrel...

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Main Authors: Elaheh Sotoudehnama, Faezeh Soleimanifard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2013-11-01
Series:Issues in Language Teaching
Subjects:
hyponym set
semantically unrelated set
synonym set
vocabulary knowledge scale
number of learnt vocabulary
depth of learnt vocabulary
Online Access:https://ilt.atu.ac.ir/article_1362_90b02383002a81166bf372fd4d6c38e5.pdf

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https://ilt.atu.ac.ir/article_1362_90b02383002a81166bf372fd4d6c38e5.pdf

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