Using Realia To Enhance Vocabulary Skills In Young Learners: An Investigation

Abstract

Using realia to enhance vocabulary skills in young learners is a highly effective and engaging approach. Basically realia refers to authentic, everyday objects or materials used in language teaching to help learners connect new vocabulary to real-life contexts. A foreign language teacher often employs realia to strengthen pupils' association between words and objects. The current study investigates real-life activities that improve vocabulary learning in the English [1]language and its impact on improving students' vocabulary learning performance. It was an experimental study with only post-test design. Forty students participated in the study. The data were collected and analyzed statistically. The results revealed that vital activities used for vocabulary development were menu selection, game recognition, picture identification and activity identification magazine adds understanding and identification of cities and map reading respectively. It was evident that the experimental group performed better when compared with the control group. The study suggested that students may focus their attention, stimulate their interest, give them real impact, make them aware, and modernize their language learning through vocabulary improvement.