The Effect of Elaborative Rehearsal Activities on EFL Learners' Retrieva‎l of Word Meaning

1/8/2026 12:00:00 AM

The present study focuses on the effect of elaborative rehearsal activities in EFL learners' retrieva‎l of word meaning. The preoccupation of this study is still to help try to resolve one of the basic dilemmas occurring in an EFL setting by testing the efficacy of certain rehearsal techniques to improve learners' abilities in recalling and making sense of new words. It had mixed methods, with both pre- and post-tests as the measure, complimented by interview and questionnaire methods for data collection among a sample of EFL learners. Subjects engaged in several sorts of elaborative rehearsal activities, including semantic mapping and word association exercises over some weeks. Results show that the elaborative rehearsal activities significantly weaken the ability to retrieve word meaning, leading to enhanced vocabulary retention and comprehension among EFL learners. The findings have implications for language teaching practice by incorporating such activities to ensure more effective vocabulary learning among EFL learners.

تمرين تشريحي , يادگيري واژگان , بازيابي واژگان

Elaborative rehearsal , Vocabulary Learning , Word retrieva‎l

Faisal Ghazi Faisal Al-Sammarraie

Dr Shahin Vaezi