Words learned indirectly under Synectics instruction cluster into themes such as politics, jobs, death and adjectives for people, varying between groups¶

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q2 i? Thematic analysis of indirectly learned words found politics (5), jobs (7) and adjectives for people (11) themes in the first experimental group, and religion (12), death (5) and adjectives for people (7) in the second, with many words ungrouped. → Bahadır ERİŞTİ – Mustafa POLAT 2017

Evidence¶

Bahadır ERİŞTİ – Mustafa POLAT 2017¶

Bahadır ERİŞTİ – Mustafa POLAT. (2017). THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SYNECTICS INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE VOCABULARY TEACHING. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, Volume 5, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.18298/ijlet.1753

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Qualitative thematic analysis by English subject experts of the 50 and 47 indirectly learned words reported by the two experimental groups. The second group's 47 words grouped under religion (12), death (5) and adjectives for people (7), with 23 words ungrouped.

"The 50 words were grouped under three themes such as politics (5), jobs (7), adjectives for people (11), and the other 27 words cannot be grouped under any theme in the first experimental group."

Discussion¶

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• Synectics-based teaching leads students to learn far more words indirectly during the process, with significantly higher learning levels of those words — related
• Words learned indirectly under Synectics instruction are predominantly negative in connotation in both experimental groups — related
• Synectics-based teaching produces significantly higher retention of indirectly learned vocabulary than the direct method — related