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Comparative Effectiveness of Contextual and Structural Method of Teaching Vocabulary

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  • Malik Behlol
  • Mohammad Kaini

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The study was conducted to find out effectiveness of contextual an, structural method of teaching vocabulary in English at secondary level. It was an experimental study in which the pretest posttest design was used. The population of the study was the students of secondary classes studying in Government secondary schools of Rawalpindi District. Purposive and random sampling was applied to select the school and subjects. The significance of difference between the scores of groups at 0.05 level was tested applying t test. The study revealed that the contextual method is more useful for high achievers (HA) whereas structural method is more useful for average and low achievers. The HA performed better with the contextual method due to study of words in different contexts and taking help from contextual clues that has prompted spoken and written fluency. Better performance of the average and low achievers with the structural method was due to the morphological analyses of a word, role of the students as the partner in the learning process, generation and active processing of vocabulary, provision of multiple exposure of different intensity for practice and personalization of word learning.Â

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  • Malik Behlol & Mohammad Kaini, 2011. "Comparative Effectiveness of Contextual and Structural Method of Teaching Vocabulary," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 4(1), pages 1-90, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:4:y:2011:i:1:p:90
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    1. Nursyafiqah Zabidin, 2015. "The Use of Humourous Texts in Improving ESL Learners’ Vocabulary Comprehension and Retention," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(9), pages 104-104, September.

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