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'SOLVE THE CROSSWORD': A VOCABULARY-BASED EXAMINATION OF TASK DESIGN IN EFL MATERIALS
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Learning vocabulary is an important and time-consuming endeavor for a language learner, and it has been proposed that the foreign language classroom should provide specific support for students' vocabulary development. Vocabulary exercises in instructional materials are a primary source of explicit word focus, and students' learning can be helped if they are designed in a learning-friendly manner. So far, few research have attempted to determine what learning possibilities tasks in materials provide. The current study reports on an examination of the vocabulary exercises in three series of Swedish intermediate EFL materials, with an emphasis on target vocabulary and learning circumstances. The target vocabulary was examined in terms of frequency distribution in general English, and the learning conditions were investigated. The findings imply that substantial retrieval possibilities in the content improve learning. However, it was discovered that the activities rarely required students to utilize the target vocabulary, and that it mostly consisted of high-frequency terms, i.e. words that the learners were likely to already know. As a result, materials creators must adopt a more methodical approach to vocabulary in order to ensure that word-focused assignments contribute considerably to students' learning.
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Yusupova, S. O. (2023). 'SOLVE THE CROSSWORD': A VOCABULARY-BASED EXAMINATION OF TASK DESIGN IN EFL MATERIALS. Academic Research in Educational Sciences, 4(12), 97–101. https://doi.org/
Yusupova, Shirinoy. “'SOLVE THE CROSSWORD': A VOCABULARY-BASED EXAMINATION OF TASK DESIGN IN EFL MATERIALS.” Academic Research in Educational Sciences, vol. 12, no. 4, 2023, pp. 97–101, https://doi.org/.
Yusupova, O. 2023. 'SOLVE THE CROSSWORD': A VOCABULARY-BASED EXAMINATION OF TASK DESIGN IN EFL MATERIALS. Academic Research in Educational Sciences. 12(4), pp.97–101.