Books by Dursun Turkes

This specific study concerns itself with the teaching vocabulary items in English lessons to the 5th grade students in primary schools in Turkey through TPR Storytelling instruction. In this respect, our study tries to find out the answers to the following questions: - Does the use of TPRS for teaching vocabulary make any change in the vocabulary knowledge of the students in the experimental group? - Is there a difference between the vocabulary knowledge of the students¿ in the experimental and those in the control group at the end of the study? - What are the experimental group students¿ attitudes towards learning vocabulary in English during the study? The purpose of the thesis is to give some answers to these questions within an experimental study. This study comprised two different groups: One was the experimental group and the other was the control group chosen from Ceyhan Atatürk Primary School in Adana, Turkey.