Cognitive Approach and Vocabulary Improvement of EFL Learners Using Visual Devices

The study meant to emphasize meaningful and natural presentation of vocabulary using by emphasizing the cognitive styles of EFL learners. To this purpose, two groups of pre-intermediate EFL learners, each with 02 subjects, as experimental and control group participated in study. The experimental group received instruction to learn new words in the form of video slides and scanned photos. After a period of 0 months of instruction 02 hours, 052 new words were presented. To estimate the effect of the treatment, pre and posttests was taken. Using some statistical procedures such as Spearman correlation and T-test, meaningful relationship could be identified between the procedures incorporated for both groups. However, the experimental group achieved higher degree of achievement of the material presented to them by scoring higher in the total mean

Keywords:

cognition , vocabulary , learning style , graphic devices