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The Effect of Project Based Learning in Teaching EFL Vocabulary to Young Learners of English: The Case of Pre-school Children    
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Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Fatma KİMSESİZ Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Fatma KİMSESİZ
Bozok Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Emrah Dolgunsöz
Bayburt Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Mustafa Yavuz Konca
Atatürk Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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Özet
English language teaching has newly been introduced to pre-school curriculum in Turkey. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching EFL vocabulary to pre-school children through Project Based Learning (PBL). For this purpose, an experimental design, consisted of observation checklists, exam scores and a short survey, was adopted. Firstly, through a short online survey, 150 kindergarten teachers were asked to specify which techniques they commonly used in their English classes. The primary aim here was to define traditional techniques and the rate of PBL use in Turkey. After defining common techniques, 28 children were randomly assigned to experimental (PBL instruction) and control groups (traditional instruction) equally and the data was collected in real time classroom setting for 8 weeks. The results showed that (1) PBL was rarely adopted in EFL classes in Turkey, (2) PBL instruction could increase EFL vocabulary learning gains when compared to common
Anahtar Kelimeler
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü Diğer hakemli uluslarası dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı International Journal of Languages Education
Dergi ISSN 2198-4999
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler .ERIH Plus, SOBIAD
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 12-2017
Cilt No 1
Sayfalar 426 / 439
Doi Numarası 10.18298/ijlet.2168
Makale Linki http://www.ijlet.com/DergiTamDetay.aspx?ID=2168