The Reflection of Vocabulary Implementation Through Educational Texting on EFL Learner’s Reading Skill

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Title

The Reflection of Vocabulary Implementation Through Educational Texting on EFL Learner’s Reading Skill

Description

This paper investigates the efficiency of using text messaging in the EFL reading classroom at the Islamic Azad University-South Tehran Branch, Iran. After the administration of an Oxford Placement Test (OPT), 74 participants who scored one standard deviation above and below the mean were selected. Participants were randomly assigned into two groups, an experimental and a control, each including 37 individuals. The reading part of the Preliminary English Test (PET) was administered as a pretest. The experimental group received 108 words via short messages during 18 sessions. During each session, they received 6 sentences with 6 words in a meaningful context. In contrast, the participants of the control group received traditional instruction. They were given the same structural points through inductive and deductive instruction in the classroom and the words were presented while teaching each unit. After the treatment, the participants in both groups were assigned to do a reading posttest. The results of the ANCOVA revealed no statistically significant difference between the control and the experimental groups regarding their reading scores. Thus, the vocabulary learning via short message did not have any significant effect on Iranian EFL learners' ability to comprehend pre-intermediate level texts.

Creator

Behforouz, Behnam
Frumuselu, Anca Daniela

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 15 No. 01 (2021); pp. 88-104
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2021-01-12

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 Behnam Behforouz, Anca Daniela Frumuselu

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application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

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Citation

Behnam Behforouz and Anca Frumuselu Daniela, The Reflection of Vocabulary Implementation Through Educational Texting on EFL Learner’s Reading Skill, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2021, accessed November 23, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1856

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