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The Effects Of Using Interactive Word Walls To Teach Vocabulary To Middle School Students, Ledale Southerland
The Effects Of Using Interactive Word Walls To Teach Vocabulary To Middle School Students, Ledale Southerland
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Teaching vocabulary to middle school students requires that educators find the most effective means of instruction to achieve this goal. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using an interactive word wall as the tool to combine five effective, research-based teaching strategies with social interaction to teach vocabulary to middle school students. In this study, 124 middle school students participated. The control group consisted of 67 eighth grade English students, and the intervention group was comprised of 57 seventh grade English students. The intervention was for a period of four weeks and included specific activities that …