Title of article :
TheEffectsofGuidedandUnguidedSemanticMappingonIranianEFLLearners’VocabularyandGrammarKnowledge
Author/Authors :
Jaberi, Samaneh Department of Foreign Languages - Shiraz Branch - Islamic Azad University Shiraz, Iran , Rassaei, Ehsan Department of Foreign Languages - Shiraz Branch - Islamic Azad University Shiraz, Iran
Abstract :
Thepurposeofthisstudywastoinvestigatetheefficacyoftwotypesofsemanticmapping(guidedandunguided)onimprovingEFLlearners’vocabularyandgrammarlearning.Thisstudyalsoex-ploredwhethertheguidedandunguidedsemanticmappingisequallyeffectiveingrammarandvocabularylearning.ThesampleconsistedofSixtyElementaryfemaleEFLlearnerswiththeageof10-13yearsoldfromIranLanguageInstituteinShiraz.Aproficiencytest,avocabu-laryknowledgetest,avocabularypost-test,andagrammartestwereusedastheinstrumentsofthestudy.Theparticipantsweredividedintothreegroups(20studentsineachgroup).Thestudyemployedaquasi-experimentalpre-testpost-testdesign.Thecontrolgroupwhodidnotreceiveanytreatment,studiedthesamevocabularyandgram-marissuesbasedontheroutineclassroomprocedure,whiletheguidedexperimentalgroupreceivedoneemptysemanticmapfortheone-wordcategoryandtwoemptysemanticmapsfortwogrammaticalpointsforeachsession.Intheunguidedexperimentalgroup,theparticipantswererequiredtodrawsemanticmapsforvocabulariesandgrammati-calpointswithouthavingemptyframeworks.Thepaired-samplest-testandtheone-wayANOVAwereusedtoanalyzethedata.Theresults revealedthatafterthetreatment,theparticipantsofbothexperimentalgroups(guidedandunguidedgroups)outperformedtheparticipantsofthecontrolgroupintermsofvocabularyandgrammar.Theresultsalsoshowedthattheparticipantsoftheguidedexperimentalgroupsignifi-cantlygainedhighermeanscoresinthegrammarproductiontestcom-paredwiththeunguidedexperimentalgroup.Basedontheresults,itwasconcludedthatbothguidedandunguidedsemanticmappingsignif-icantlyenhanceEFLlearners’vocabularyandgrammarlearning.Morespecifically,guidedsemanticmappingwasmoreeffectiveingrammarproductioncomparedwiththeunguidedsemanticmapping
Keywords :
vocabularylearning , unguidedsemanticmapping , guidedsemanticmapping , graphicorganizer , grammarlearning , EFLlearners
Journal title :
Journal of Studies in Learning and Teaching English
