Using Multimedia in Teaching Vocabulary in High School Classes

Abstract

The present study tried to observe the impact of using multimedia on teaching vocabulary to see if it could improve learning vocabulary in high school classes. The participants were dividedinto two classes according to their proficiency.Eachgroup had28 participants. There was a pre-test to check out the student's knowledge of vocabulary at the beginning of the experiment. Also, the control group was taught by traditional tasks like reading aloud, repetition, and translation. Learners in theexperimental group were taught by using multimedia techniques. After the treatment, three months (12 sessions), a post-test was used to check out the student's knowledge of vocabulary at the end of the experiment in both groups. Two delayed post-tests were used to check out the retention of the student's knowledge of vocabulary after two and four weeks of ending the experiment in both groups.The findings suggested that using multimedia was more effective in acquisition and learning unknown vocabulary than traditional methods. It had apositive effect on retention of vocabulary knowledge. Therefore, the use of multimedia provided the bridge to a deeper understanding.