Masoomeh Fazeli Tourk
Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
The researcher intended to work on two variables, which are edutainment and playful learning respectively. Using of songs and videos in edutainment and applied theater is playful learning in this research (in addition, applied theater is a kind of drama) that they are used as a technique for foreign language learning. In particular setting, 21 female learners selected as participants at the elementary level in Bayan institute in Karaj that 15 students placed in edutainment group, also 6 remained students in playful learning group. Before the treatment a vocabulary pretest was administered to assure that students weren’t familiar with those vocabularies. During the treatment the researcher taught the vocabularies through the edutainment and playful learning techniques. In this study qualitative data was collected by recording and interviewing of the two classes in Bayan institute and two interviews was administered in midterm and at the end of the course (these interviews were conducted in Persian language). After the treatment period, the teacher was administered a post-test and after post-test, the researcher used the One-Way ANCOVA for analyzing students’ scores. The result of the study revealed that there was a significant difference between the playful learning and edutainment or playful learning could help Iranian female EFL learners promote their vocabulary in English more effective than edutainment.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
