The Effect of V isual Aids on Elemen tary Iranian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Le arning

This study aimed to investigate t he effect of visual aids on elementary Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary learning. To achieve the aim of the st dy, 60 eleme ntary EFLlearners were selec ted based on their perf ormance on proficiency test. After administering the pretest, the p articipants o f the experimental grou p receivedvocabulary visually. The teache r used diff erent kinds of strategies such as: physic al demonstration, creatin a visual memory for the word, etc. Control group received vocabulary instru ction through the conventi onal method, which was popular in similar courses by m eans of using dictionaries, definitions, synonyms, translation, etc. Fin ally, both groups took p osttest. The results of in dependent sample t-test showed that visual aids were more effective to help elementary EFL learners to learn vocabulary. Accordingly, it was recommended that a l the EFL teachers should feel responsible and use vari ous types of visual aids as much as possible effectively.

کلیدواژه ها:

Teaching Aids ، Visual Aids ، Educational Technology ، Teaching ، Learni ng ، and Englis h Language Learners (ELL s)