Ficiton stories and vocabulary learning

Abstract

Fiction stories are didactic materials which are useful for teaching vocabulary, especially for young learners. The study aim is to investigate the impact of fiction stories on vocabulary learning. The participants were 8 learners from 8-9 years old from a public school. This was a quantitative and quasi-experimental research. The data was collected in three stages: pre-test, experiment, and the post-test during seven sessions. The pre-test was a pre-starter-adapted-test from Cambridge Assessment English (CAE) over 17 points. Then, the material for the experiment consisted of two fiction stories taken from YouTube, slides with vocabulary, Padlet to make students write on it the words they have learned, and a vocabulary checklist. At the end of the experiment, the teacher took the same post-test out of 17 points. Learners obtained the grade of 7,62 over 17 points as average in the pre-test. It shows a great difference from the post-test from which the average was 14,12 out of 17 points. Finally, the results showed that the students increased their vocabulary from watching and listening to fiction stories.