Picture Superiority Effect: Using Images for Vocabulary Enhancement Among Year One Malaysian ESL Learners.
As depicted in the current Malaysian scenario, competency in English is not assured although students are formally taught the language from their first year of schooling in National schools. Malaysian pupils have been achieving English proficiency level lower than the set expectation. This is furthe...
| Publicado en: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 28; no. S2; pp. 177 - 197 |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=143433819&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 143433819 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01287702 TKQ jtl: Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities issn: 01287702 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 vid: 28 iid: S2 pid: 20751 pub: Universiti Putra Malaysia artinfo: ui: 143433819 ppf: 177 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 3.5MB tig: atl: Picture Superiority Effect: Using Images for Vocabulary Enhancement Among Year One Malaysian ESL Learners. aug: au: Debbita Ai Lin Tan Bee Choo Lee Kasuma, Shaidatul Akma Adi Ganapathy, Malini affil: School of Languages, Literacies and Translation, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia su: English as a foreign language English language ability testing Fluency (Language learning) Vocabulary education sug: subj: English as a foreign language English language ability testing Fluency (Language learning) Vocabulary education keyword: ESL/EFL images Picture Superiority Effect vocabulary young Malaysian learners ab: As depicted in the current Malaysian scenario, competency in English is not assured although students are formally taught the language from their first year of schooling in National schools. Malaysian pupils have been achieving English proficiency level lower than the set expectation. This is further highlighted in the 2016 Economic Planning Unit report that after finishing Year 6 of Malaysian primary education, less than half of the students achieved a reasonable level of English literacy. Given the significance of vocabulary knowledge to language proficiency, the present study sought to examine the use of images in Malaysian ESL classrooms in terms of its effects on the development of vocabulary knowledge among Year One pupils'. The study is different from previous studies and exploratory in nature, in the sense that it examined not only receptive vocabulary knowledge but also the productive aspect of vocabulary learning. Two groups of Malaysian Year One pupils from a national primary school in Malaysia were selected by purposive sampling for a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design in a quasi-experimental approach. The Experimental group experienced the interventional approach (use of images) while the Control group did not. Results revealed superior productive vocabulary scores, at both the posttest and delayed posttest levels, in favour of the Experimental group. No significant difference was recorded for the receptive dimension. One other finding is that the testing instruments used were statistically found to be reliable for use with Malaysian Year One pupils. This study and its findings are of relevance to policymakers, educators, curriculum designers, and scholars engaged in ESL/EFL research pertaining to young learners. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities is the property of Universiti Putra Malaysia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities holder: Universiti Putra Malaysia dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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