The Effect of ICT Based-Activities on Junior Secondary Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

Abstract

Teaching vocabulary through information and communication technology tools or ICT is now becoming a new trend in English language teaching. The main objective of the present research was to investigate the effects of teaching vocabulary using information and computer technology (ICT) on vocabulary learning of junior secondary school students. To achieve this purpose, thirty-one second grade students of a junior secondary students were selected to be participants. Fifteen students in one class were chosen as the experimental group and sixteen students in another class were chosen as the control group. These students were given a pre-vocabulary test in order to measure their vocabulary knowledge. Then one class (experimental group) received ICT-based instruction while the other was given to the traditional method group (control group). Treatment length was two sessions. After that, both groups were given an immediate post-vocabulary test. The data obtained by t-test and considering the improvement of students’ English vocabulary after treatment, that students who used ICT tools to learn highly new vocabulary, learned a significantly larger number of words than those in the control group. After pre-test and post-tests, the results of the study revealed that the ICT group carried out better than the traditional method group. The conclusion is that utilizing ICT media can improve students’ vocabularies mastery on Junior High Schools students.