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ArticleAmpersand (Oxford, UK)2023

The impact of COVID-19 and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners' vocabulary repertoire.

Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh, Sameer Naser Olimat, Dana Khalid Mahadin, Bassil Mohammad Mashaqba, Anas Ibraheem Al Huneety

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Article in Ampersand (Oxford, UK), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Nisreen Naji Al-KhawaldehDepartment of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330127, Zarqa, 13133, Jordan.
Sameer Naser OlimatDepartment of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330127, Zarqa, 13133, Jordan.
Dana Khalid MahadinEnglish Language Department, Salt Faculty of Human Sciences, Al-Balqa Applied University, P. O. Box 206, Al-Salt, 19117, Jordan.
Bassil Mohammad MashaqbaDepartment of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330127, Zarqa, 13133, Jordan.
Anas Ibraheem Al HuneetyDepartment of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330127, Zarqa, 13133, Jordan.
Hashemite University · JOAl-Balqa Applied University · JO

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Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis worldwide posing many linguistic challenges including understanding and learning new related terminology. This study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition, particularly in Jordan. A triangulated approach was employed for collecting data including interviews, tests and a questionnaire distributed to 100 EFL learners at a Jordanian university. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data showed a positive influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology strategies on EFL learners' knowledge of vocabulary. It also revealed that the participants were "medium" users of cognitive, determination, and social strategies and "high" users of metacognitive and memory vocabulary learning strategies for acquiring COVID-19 associated terminology. The analysis of the tests demonstrated that the COVID-19 and its Vocabulary Language Strategies (VLSs) have a significant positive impact on students' vocabulary knowledge size. Thus, it verified the effectiveness of the reported strategies for acquiring COVID-19 terminology. The learners' vocabulary repertoire has been enriched with new COVID-19 related vocabulary such as quarantine, lockdown, incubation, pandemic, contagious, outbreak, epidemic, pathology, infectious, asymptomatic, covidiot, pneumonia, anorexia, etc. The findings highlighted the importance of employing efficient strategies for investing newly emerging contexts to cultivate learners' vocabulary repertoire. This study contributes to the area of language acquisition through extensive illustrations of COVID-19 associated lexicon and the intensified-in use associated vocabulary learning strategies. The study concludes with some pedagogical implications and recommendations for further research.

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COVID-19EFLLanguage acquisitionVocabulary learning strategiesVocabulary repertoire

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PMID37096052
PMCPMC10105624
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