The Using Vark in Teaching Idioms to Iraqi EFL Students
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https://doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v62i1.2005Keywords:
Vark Learning Style, English Idioms, achivement, EFL studentsAbstract
The major goal of this research is to determine the impact of using the Vark learning style to teach idioms to Iraqi EFL university students. To fulfill the study's goal, the Vark learning style tactics and features were presented as a style for teaching Iraqi EFL idioms, with the goal of determining if there is a statically significant difference in the experimental group's achievement and the control group's achievement in the posttest. In fact, there is a large disparity in the degrees of recognition and productivity. The study's sample consists of 35 EFL Iraqi students in their 3rd year at the Department of English, College of Education Ibn Rushd- University of Baghdad (18 students in the experimental group and 17 students in the control group). The two groups were given a number of texts containing idioms to study for two weeks. The experimental group was taught using the Vark learning style, whereas the control group was taught using standard techniques. The researcher next conducted an accomplishment posttest as well as validation in order to apply the findings to the two groups. The gathered data demonstrated that there is a substantial difference between the mean accomplishment scores in the posttest between the two groups, with the experimental group prevailing. i.e., the experimental group's performance in English idioms is much higher than the control group's.
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