-Name: Layla Almuzaini-Title: “The effectiveness of using games in teaching vocabulary in Saudi Arabian Secondary school ”.Date: 21-5-2013Supervisor: Clive Newton.

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Aim of the study:

-Students find difficulty in learning and recalling English vocabulary.

-The aim of the study is to find a technique that facilitates learning vocabulary and help students to acquire and recall them better, in order to be used by English teacher inside the class.

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Aim of the study

Research questions are:

To what extent do games increase potential for lexical recall? How does this technique prompte students motivation toward learning lexices?

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Research questions

The methodology of the study:-The experiment has been done at Saudi Arabian Secondary School.

-Normally, each class studies English Subject four hours per-week.

-They use an English Course book that design by Ministry of education in Saudi.

-The course book teaches new vocabulary in separate section on each unit.

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The methodology of the study

Gender: Female.Age: 16 years-old.Level: first stage at secondary school.Class: students are divided into three classes. There are around 25 students per class.

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The methodology of the study

The participants:

The methodology of the study Cont. :

The experiment:

There are two groups of vocabulary. Each group has been taught by and without games in different classes in the same day. In each class, students have been taught the vocabulary for 45 minutes, and then they have a break for 15 minutes. After that they were given a short test about those vocabularies. The whole experiment has been done into two days.

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The methodology of the study Cont. :

First Day:ClassNumber of

words

ProcedureBreak ShortTest description

1/3 & 1/25 -With game.

 

-First they discover the new words by using hangman, they shout

letters randomly, and They are given clues: first letter & vowel

letters.

-Have a discussion about the meaning of them with examples.

Students have to discover the meaning and say it in Arabic. Then

they read these words from the book with definitions .

-The application is using these words to solve gross word game .

For 15

minutes

Students are given

five definitions for

the words that they

had learned, and

have to write the

correct term for

each.

1/15 wordsThey have been taught traditional without using game. Students

open their books and read the new words with their definitions.

From the discussion they found the meaning and said it in Arabic.

For 15

minutes

The same test

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The methodology of the study Cont. :

ClassNumber of wordsProcedureShort BreakTest

1/18 words -Together, using a hangman to discover the word. Then

discuses its meaning by given its definition and

examples.

- Students said the meaning in Arabic.

Then they have two applications:

1-Some students were given cards of the words and

other cards of definition. Each one who have definition

had read it , and the one who has the correct term show

the card to the class.

2-The students were divided into two teams. Both were

given pieces of papers of words and definitions. They to

match the words with the definitions.

 

15 minutesEight definitions and

students supposed to

write the words.

1/2 & 1/38 WORDS No games.

Students read the words with their definition from the

book. There was a discussion about their meaning .

15 minutesThe same test

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Second Day:

The methodology of the study

The methodology of the study Cont. :

1-The course book.2- The experience of the teacher3- Teaching process.

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The methodology of the study Cont. : There is an assumption that students had not

known the words before comes from :

1-What does it mean to know a word.2-Words difficulty.3- Affects of students motivation and interests.4- The process of cycling and recalling words5-how are words remembered/forgotten? 6- Method of using games.

Key concepts of the study:

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The methodology of the study Cont. :

Previous studies suggest that:

Games have important role in facilitating vocabulary learning and it increase students motivation and involvement inside the class.

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teaching vocabulary in Saudi Arabian Secondary school.

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The methodology of the study

The methodology of the study Cont. :

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Dolta, R.I. and Mikaili, P. (2011). Effects of Instructional games on facilitating of students' vocabulary. AustralianJournal of Basic and Applied Sciences. 5 (11), 1218-1224.

Faid, M. (2011). The Effectivness of Using a Suggested Program Based on Games and Visual on Enriching English Vocabulary of First Grade Prep School Students. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research Business. 3 (4), 3.

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References of the study :

References of the study