Abstract
This study focused on the effect of teaching vocabulary through semantic mapping on the awareness of two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency dimensions of deep vocabulary knowledge as well as the general vocabulary knowledge of EFL students. Sixty intermediate EFL female adult learners participated in this study; they were chosen among 90 students through Prelemenary English test and a general vocabulary knowledge test. They were thus randomly divided into two group, experimental and control, each consisting of 30 students. As for the treatment, modifiers describing peoples’ characteristics were taught in the text and through semantic mapping, whereas these words were taught by usual vocabulary instruction in control group. At the end, students took a vocabulary achievement test and a test of awareness of evaluation and potency dimensions of deep vocabulary knowledge. A t-test was run to analyze the data from the vocabulary achievement test. Results showed that teaching collocations has great influence on the students` general vocabulary knowledge. To see if the independent variable had significant effects on awareness of evaluation and potency dimensions of deep vocabulary knowledge, a MANOVA was run revealing that teaching vocabularies through semantic mapping significantly improved learners` awareness of the two dimensions.
Highlights
Vocabulary is an inseperable part of any language learning process
This study focused on the effect of teaching vocabulary through semantic mapping on the awareness of two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency dimensions of deep vocabulary knowledge as well as the general vocabulary knowledge of EFL students
90 intermediate students took part in a Preliminary English Test (PET) and a general vocabulary test. Both were primarily piloted with their reliability indices using the Cronboth Alpha index being 0.98 and 0.9, resepectively. Both tests were used to homogenize the participants required for this study and the average scores of students on the PET and the vocabulary test were used as thee criterion fo selection
Summary
Vocabulary is an inseperable part of any language learning process. It would be imposible to learn a language without vocabulary. Rivers (1981) states, "vocabulary cannot be taught. It can be presented, explained, included in all kinds of activities, but it must be learnt by individuals" "As language teachers, we must arouse interest in words, a certain excitement I personal development in this area" She suggests that language teachers must help their students by giving them ideas on how to learn vocabulary and some guidance on what to learn
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