Mnemonic Technique An Effective Vocabulary Teaching Method to Plurilingual Students

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MJLTM, 8 (5), 388-400. 
 
 
 
 
 
Mnemonic Technique - An Effective Vocabulary Teaching Method to Plurilingual Students-
Mahmut Kayaaltı 
Hodja Akhmet Yassawi University, Turkistan – 080713, Kazakhstan 
 
ARTICLE INFORMATION 
Original Research Paper 
Received Mar. 2018 
Accepted May. 2018 
Keywords: 
Mnemonic 
vocabulary 
rote learning 
ABSTRACT 
A study was conducted with an aim of investigating the different 
approaches used by both EFL learners and educators to learn and 
teach vocabulary respectively. In the study, particularly two different 
techniques were focused on: The “Memorisation” technique which is 
one of the most applied methods in teaching vocabulary and the 
“Mnemonic” technique, which is thought to produce higher results in 
teaching vocabulary by most scholars. An experiment was carried out 
to compare the efficiency of these two methods. A group of students 
from Khoja Akhmet Yassawi University Preparatory Faculty in 
Kazakhstan were chosen to participate in the experiment. The factor 
that makes this study different from other studies in the scope of its 
field is that the training given at the time of the “mnemonic” 
education was not in the native language of the students, which is 
Kazakh. The students had been learning Turkish as a foreign 
language. The acquired findings after the experiments, throughout 
pre and post tests indicated that although the participants did not 
receive education in their native language during the experiment, the 
use of the mnemonic technique gave better results compared to the 
rote learning technique. 
 
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