Integrating spelling games with visualisation strategies can re-motivate students when performance dips mid-intervention.¶
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q2 i? When week-four results declined, the researcher integrated visual strategies with spelling games to motivate students, and week-five results improved substantially. → Nahari 2016
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Nahari 2016¶
Nahari, A. A., & Alfadda, H. A. (2016). From Memorising to Visualising: The Effect of Using Visualisation Strategies to Improve Students' Spelling Skills. English Language Teaching, 9(6), 1. https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n6p1
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The researcher's reflective observation during the intervention noted a week-four dip in experimental-group performance. Adding spelling games in week five coincided with the group's strongest results, though no controlled comparison isolates the games' effect.
"I realised that in the fourth week, the students' results were not as good as in the third week, so I integrated visual strategies with spelling games, in order to motivate the students to use the strategies and make the lesson more fun"
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Related Claims¶
- Students trained in visualisation strategies show greater weekly improvement in words memorised than control students. — related
- Student teachers' teaching efficacy follows a dip trajectory: it rises during on-campus preparation, falls to its lowest point at the midpoint of student teaching, and rebounds by the end — related
- Visualisation strategies significantly improve L2 students' spelling skills compared to traditional memorisation methods. — related
- Contrary to expectations, agent-led reflection sessions typically ended with participants sounding more certain of their plans than when they started — related
- Students hold highly positive attitudes toward visualisation strategies for spelling. — related
- Feedback provision dipped in weeks three and six across all groups, possibly because the skills taught those weeks had fewer components — related
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