The Effect of Pre-Teaching New Vocabulary Items via Audio-Visuals on Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension Ability

This study aimed to investigate the effect of pre-teaching new vocabulary items via audio-visuals on Iranian EFLlearners’ reading comprehension ability. The question this study tried to answer is if pre-teaching new vocabularyitems via audio-visuals have any effect on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension ability. To find the answer tothe question, 30 intermediate level students from Rasht language institutes were selected via administrating OPTwhich divided them into two groups. They were both male and female. Intermediate level students were used for thecurrent study because they were learning all skills of language at the same time, they were familiar with some words,and their English proficiency was enough to speak English and understand the importance of reading comprehension.The students were one experimental group (pre-teaching new vocabulary items via audio-visuals) and one controlgroup (a placebo, teaching L2 reading comprehension via the existing method). The research was conducted duringlearners’ classes within 5 sessions in summer course, 2016. The results indicated that pre-teaching new vocabularyitems via audio-visuals affected positively the participant Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension ability.

Keywords:

vocabulary , pre-teaching new vocabulary , audio-visuals , reading comprehension ability , vocabulary schema