What Are Two Strategies In Teaching Vocabulary?

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Research questions In this study , the aim is to compare between two strategies in teaching vocabulary. The first strategy is presenting vocabulary in semantic related sets , and The other strategy is presenting vocabulary in semantic unrelated word sets. These two strategies will be applied on two groups of students studying English in secondary school.
Thus, the main question of this study is : Are these two strategies in teaching vocabulary (in semantic related sets and unrelated word sets) are equally effective in acquiring and learning new words in the two sample groups of the students ?
Research Methodology: This study is going to be made by the participation of two groups of students who are learning English as a second language in a secondary school in Dammam . the first group consists of fifteen students from …show more content…

The aim of the pre- test is to make sure that the words which are going to be presented to students , using the two strategies , are new to all of the students in the two groups . The lessons are going to be given in the following weeks .
Pre -Test :
In the first lesson , students are going to be given a list of words containing around thirty English words . Then , students are going to be asked to mark the words they have already known . After that , ten words , that all the students do not know , are chosen to be presented by using the unrelated word set and other ten words chosen to be presented by using the semantic related set.
Presenting the new vocabulary : The ten new words, which are chosen , are going to be presented to the students as follows . The unrelated words are going to be presented on the second week and the related words will be presented on the fourth

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