A study of the effects of deliberately developed material vs ready-made material in the learning of vocabulary in 9th grade students at ColegioTécnico Las Nieves

Abstract

The aim of this research was to find out whether the use of classroom material, which has been deliberately developed by the teacher, is more effective for lexical learning purposes in 9th grade students at Colegio Técnico Las Nieves than the ready-made material. The research was carried out in eight sessions where two groups participated. Eight topics were taught with two different types of material; both groups were exposed to non-authentic material. Group one utilized a booklet and the other utilized deliberately developed material in order to demonstrate which of the two materials was more effective to learn vocabulary. The results showed that both materials benefit equally when learning specific vocabulary. A cause for this could be the intrinsic motivation that dynamically changed during the sessions, and also the external variables that influenced the motivational condition of the learners.