%0 Journal Article
%T Acquisition of Latin Roots with Implications for EAP
%A Bu£¿ra Zengin
%A Ali R£¿za Erdo£¿an
%A Suna Akal£¿n
%J Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
%D 2007
%I Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
%X This study explores whether semantically elaborated keywords facilitateslearning of Latin roots. The freshmen of a medical school were the treatment groupprovided with the translation equivalents of the target roots supplemented withkeywords. The control group (second year students of the same medical school)received only Turkish translations; the anatomy courses in their first year had alsofamiliarized them to the roots incidentally.After a pretest and the subsequent presentation of the self-study materials, theywere informed of a similar test they will take three weeks later. The students assumedtheir testing is over; however, fifteen weeks later a similar test was administered toassess in which group the decline might be lower. With t-tests and ANOVA, all thepairwise comparisons (pretest ¨C first posttest, pretest ¨C second posttest and first posttest¨C second posttest) indicated statistically significant differences acquired by thetreatment group with implications for English for academic purposes.
%K Latin roots
%K keyword-semantic method
%K memory
%K L2 vocabulary learning
%K English for academic purposes
%U http://www.jlls.org/Issues/Volume%203/No.1/bzengin_aerdogan_sakalin.pdf