Revisiting Total Physical Response: Evaluating Its Impact on Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention in EFL Classrooms

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.bilpubgroup.com/index.php/fls/article/view/7028/5576" target="_blank" >https://journals.bilpubgroup.com/index.php/fls/article/view/7028/5576</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/fls.v6i5.7028" target="_blank" >10.30564/fls.v6i5.7028</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Revisiting Total Physical Response: Evaluating Its Impact on Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention in EFL Classrooms

Original language description

This paper analyzes the impact of physical action on foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Total Physical Response (TPR) is a methodology developed half a century ago that was later abandoned, and there is now relatively little research into its potential for foreign language learning. The researchers aimed to revitalize this methodology and test its impact on vocabulary acquisition and retention in foreign language learning. The study was conducted at a secondary school in Iraq with twenty participants aged 14 to 15 years. A physical action game related to vocabulary spelling was integrated into English as Foreign Language (EFL) classes, after which participants were evaluated on vocabulary acquisition and retention. Additionally, a questionnaire was administered to assess their subjective satisfaction with the methodology. The results indicate that this method significantly enhanced vocabulary acquisition and retention among the students, and their subjective satisfaction was notably high. Given the relatively small sample size, this study serves as a pilot study, to be validated on a larger scale in the future. The implications are relevant for curriculum designers as well as the development of psycholinguistic theory. Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms responsible for improved vocabulary acquisition and retention when using this methodology in the context of emerging cognitive science and psychology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Forum for Linguistic Studies

ISSN

2705-0610

e-ISSN

2705-0602

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

SG - SINGAPORE

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

822-832

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85209751088