AU  - Akkoyun,Esra
AU  - Supervisor: Mohammadzadeh, Behbood
TI  - The role of pictures and games in vocabulary teaching: A case study with a two-year old boy in a naturalistic setting
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Nicosia
PB  - Cyprus International University
KW  - Kelime öğrenmede resim ve oyunlar
KW  - Pictures and games in vocabulary learning
KW  - Kelime öğretimi
KW  - Vocabulary teaching
N1  - Includes appendix (86-97 p.); Includes references (81-85 p.); 6; CHAPTER 1; 6; INTRODUCTION; 6; BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY; 7; PURPOSE OF THE STUDY; 8; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; 9; SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY; 11; LIMITATION OF THE STUDY; 11; ORGANIZATION OF THE THESIS; 12; SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER; 13; CHAPTER II; 13; INTRODUCTION; 13; FEATURE OF THE VOCABULARY TEACHING PLAN OF THE THESIS; 14; WHO IS A ''VERY YOUNG LEANER''?; 14; CHARACTERISTICS OF VERY YOUNG LEANERS OF ENGLISH; 15; PRINCIPLES OF  CHILDREN'S LEARNING AND LANGUAGES LEARNING; 17; PRICINPLES OF CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE LEARNING; 18; PRINCIPLES OF CHILDREN'S SECOND LANGUAGES LEARNING AND TEACHING; 22; VOCABULARY IN THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE; 23; IMPORTANCE OF VOCABULARY; 24; CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; 25; STRATEGIES OF TEACHING VOCABULARY TO A VERY YOUNG LEARNER; 25; PICTURE IN FOREIGN VOCALBULARY TERCHING; 26; TEACHING ENGLISH VOCALBULARY USING GAMES; 27; BENEFITS OF USING GAMES AND GAMES PICTURES IN VOCABULARY TEACHING; 28; MOTIVATION; 28; REAL LIFE; 28; SELF-CONFIDENCE; 29; ROLE OF GAMES AND PICTURES IN VOCABULARY RETENTION; 33; ASSESSING SECOND LANGUAGE VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT OF VERY YOUNG LEARNERS; 33; RATIONALE FOR ASSESSING VERY YOUNG LEANERS; 33; WHAT IS  A 'GOOD' RESULT?; 36; STUDIES ON TEACHING TO YOUNG LEANERS AND VERY YOUNG LEANERS; 38; SUMMARY OF CHAPTER; 39; CHAPTER III; 39; METHODOLOGY; 39; INTRODUCTION; 42; STEPS IN A CASE STUDY RESEARCH; 42; SETTING THE LOCATION AND TIME LIMITS AND THE PARTICIPANT: CASE STUDY OF A LANGUAGE LEANER; 44; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; 44; CONTEXT OF THE STUDY; 45; DATA SOURCES; 45; HOME OBSERVATIONS DURING ACTIVITIES; 46; VOCALBULARY RETENTION TESTS; 47; DATA ANALYSIS PROCEDURE; 47; RESEARCH DESIGN; 50; DESCRIPTION OF THE GAMES AND PICTURES IMPLEMENTED; 54; CHAPTER IV; 54; DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS; 54; INTRODUCTION; 54; RESEARCH QUESTION : Are games and pictures effective on the Learning and retention of the Vocalbulary items?; 59; Sub-Research Question 1 : How does the use of pictures effect a very young learner's vocalbulary learning process?; 63; Sub-Research Question 2: How does the use of games affect a very young learner's vocabulary learning process?; 67; Sub-research question 3: Does the Implementation of pictures contribute to the retention ?; 69; Sub-research Question 4: Does the Implementation of games contirbute to the retention?; 71; Sub-research Question 5: Does the implementation of pictures for a very young learner in a real life setting increase leaner's interest and motivation in learning the English vocabulary to be taught and facilitate the process?; 72; Sub-research Question 6: Does the implementation of games for games for a very young learners in a real life setting increase learner's interest and motivation in learning the English vocabulary to be taught and facilities the process?; 73; Sub-research Question 7: How does the use of picture affect a two year old boy's vocalbulary learning in a three month's periods?; 75; Sub-research Quetion 8 : How does the use of genes affect a two year old boy's vocalbulary learning in three month period?; 76; CHAPTER V; 76; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; 76; Introduction; 76; DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS; 79; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH; 80; SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER; 81; REFERENCES; 86; APPENDICES
N2  - 'ABSTRACT  This research study was designed to determine the influence of introducing English vocabulary items at very early ages in a naturalistic setting by comparing the participant's achievements and attitudes towards vocabulary learning through games and pictures. Another aim of the study is to find out whether teaching vocabulary through games and pictures will result in better learning and retention and offer suggestions based on the findings.  Within the frameworks of the dynamics of a case study involved in teaching vocabulary to a very young learner, living in TRNC, the variables in this case study include the use of various pictures and games in vocabulary teaching as independent variables and the very young learner participating in the study in his learning English vocabulary as a dependent variable. The participant was observed from about 24 months to 27 months age.  Retention tests prepared by the researcher were administered to the participant during the teaching and learning process in order to learn the role of games and pictures in vocabulary learning and retention. The participant in the study was taught by the researcher, herself, who had been trained in one of the English language teaching departments in Turkey.  Data were obtained from the subject both by means of the home observations in a naturalistic setting and the retention tests and evaluated by the researcher. The descriptive analysis of the retention tests and home observations revealed that both games and pictures were effective in a very young learner's vocabulary learning but it was clear that teaching vocabulary using games was more effective than teaching vocabulary through pictures to the very young learner who was two years old. The findings of research will have a profound effect on the contribution of games and pictures for vocabulary learning while teaching young learners and very young learners.   Keywords: vocabulary learning, vocabulary teaching, pictures and games in vocabulary learning, young language learners. '
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