Teaching vocabulary to Turkish young learners in semantically related and semantically unrelated sets by using digital storytelling

Ainur Aitkuzhinova-Arslan, Süleyman Gün, Eda Üstünel

Abstract


Teaching vocabulary is a comprehensive process in foreign language learning requiring specific techniques of appropriate instruction and accurate strategy. The present study was conducted to examine the effects of teaching vocabulary to Turkish young learners in semantic clustering way through digital storytelling. To investigate this aim, six video stories were chosen and studied in sequence. The research was carried out with 25 sixth graders during 6 weeks. Totally 6 stories were presented by teacher: three of them were taught in semantically related and three of them were taught in semantically unrelated sets. SPSS 20 package programme was used to analyze all collected data. Learners developed their vocabulary at the end of both processes but with different ratio. Participants scored better at semantically unrelated vocabulary teaching process than semantically related vocabulary teaching process.


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young learners; teaching vocabulary; semantic sets, digital storytelling

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