• Maki Naeimi

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• Rahmatollah Soltani

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• Ayoob Damavand

  Author

This study examines the impact of Discussing Your Feelings with Someone Else as an implicit vocabulary learning strategy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In order to identify the aforementioned group in terms of language proficiency, an Objective Placement Test was administered to a population of 130 intermediate undergraduate EFL students at the Omidiyeh Islamic Azad University in Khouzestan, Iran. Ultimately, sixty intermediate students were selected and assigned into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group was taught vocabulary learning strategy through Discussing Your Feelings with Someone Else as an implicit vocabulary learning strategy for developing their vocabulary storage in reading comprehension. After ten sessions of treatment, the two groups were given a post-test of an achievement vocabulary test. Data analysis was conducted through samples ttest statistics. It demonstrated that the experimental group who utilized Discussing Your Feelings with Someone Else as an implicit vocabulary learning strategy outperformed the control group.

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