Involvement Load of Vocabulary Tasks IELTS preparation Vocabulary Course Books
الموضوعات : نشریه مطالعات آموزش زبان انگلیسی
Maryam Sadeghi Garmaroudi
1
(English Language Teaching, Payame noor University, Tehran)
Mohammad Aghajanzadeh
2
(English Language Department, Payame Noor University, Rasht, Gilan, Iran)
الکلمات المفتاحية: strategies, involvement Load Hypothesis- Involvement Load Index- Vocabulary Learning,
ملخص المقالة :
The importance of vocabulary is undeniable. EFL learners need sufficient lexicon in order to bea competitive speaker. Lots of strategies have been proposed. The concept of involvement loadwas first introduced by Hulstijn and Laufer (2001). They believed that deeper explanation oflexical information will result in better retention of them. The present study aimed at finding theinvolvement load indexes of vocabulary tasks used in two popular IELTS vocabulary books. Italso intended to find the most applied vocabulary learning strategies by IELTS learners. Datawere gathered from the intensive analysis of 20 selected task of “Oxford Word Skills” and“Advanced Vocabulary In Use”. Also 50 IELTS candidates were asked to fill a questionnaire.The results showed that books applied a variety of activities. The maximum index was 4 and theminimum was 1. The analysis showed that consolidating was used for the tasks with higherinvolvement load indexes. Tasks with lower involvement load indexes had other strategies likediscovery. Data analysis revealed that learners implied different strategies in learningvocabularies. The most popular strategy was germane to determination strategies, which areclustered under discovery Strategy.
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