The Comparison of the Effects of Keeping Lexis Notebooks Versus Keeping Vocabulary Notebooks on Students’ Vocabulary Learning

The present study intended to compare the effects of keeping lexis notebook strategy versus keeping vocabulary notebook strategy on students’ vocabulary learning and explored students’ attitudes towards each strategy. Strategy is a series of actions which a learner uses to facilitate language learning. The participants were 60 intermediate level female students studying at Boostan-e-Marefat language institute in Marvdasht, Southern East of Iran. They were selected and assigned randomly to treatment and control groups. A lexis notebook program was implemented in one class over a 4-week period, with the remaining class acting as control group, following the same curriculum but keeping vocabulary notebooks. The instruments used in this study included a pretest/posttest and a questionnaire. At the end, the results of this study indicated that keeping lexis notebook strategy is more effective than keeping vocabulary notebook strategy on students’ vocabulary learning and based on the data collected from the questionnaire it appeared that students have more positive attitudes toward keeping lexis notebook than keeping vocabulary notebook.