The Effectiveness of using didactic games‘’ scattergories the card game’’ on enhancing ESP students’ semi technicalvocabulary
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2018
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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Semi-technical vocabulary is very important for ESP students because it plays a significant role in building their understanding of specialized texts. In that reason, ESP teachers better to apply effective techniques in their classrooms such as scattergories the card game which is considered as a fast thinking game. The present dissertation aims at investigating to what extent scattergories the card game can help students in learning semi-technical vocabulary, as well as, investigating how didactic games: scattergories the card game can be more than just fun. In the light of the raised questions, it is hypothesized that if teachers apply Didactic games: scattergories the card game, their students' semi-technical vocabulary will be enhanced. In order to confirm or reject the hypothesis, a questionnaire and an experiment have been used as a data collection tools. They were submitted to 51 first year students at 'Institut National de la Formation Professionelle Hotellerie et Tourisme' in Ain El Beida. These students were divided into two groups: the experimental and the control group. The analysis of the questionnaire, which was submitted to both groups, results revealed that subject students face several difficulties in mastering semi-technical vocabulary. After, both groups were pre-tested to check their knowledge of the semi-technical vocabulary. Then, the experimental group was exposed to a treatment by implementing the card game in teaching semi-technical vocabulary, while the control group received no especial instruction. After that, both groups were post-tested. The analysis of the experiment data confirms that through scattergories the card game help ESP students master more semi-technical vocabulary and memorize them. In that reason, ESP teachers are recommended to apply scattergories the card game in their classrooms and during their instructions.
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Semi-technical vocabulary, Language game, ESP student, Scattergorie the card game