Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CURRENT TRENDS IN ELT
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 109-115Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.395
Keywords
semantic elaboration; structural elaboration; vocabulary learning; vocabulary retention
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The present study was an attempt to examine the effect of semantic and structural elaboration on L2 vocabulary learning and retention. The participants were 44 second and third grade female students. They were grouped randomly in two elaboration groups: semantic and structural. Forty five new English words were instructed in three sessions and the participants in each group did a task which was grouping words based on either meaning (semantic) or number of letters (structure). They took an immediate post-test and delayed one in a two-week interval. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the effect of semantic and structural elaboration on EFL learners' vocabulary learning and retention. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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