Humour as a technique for teaching EFL vocabulary at intermediate level

الملخص EN

Humour benefits vary through its usage in different fields, particularly in education.

It increases pupils‟ ability and performance, creates an open classroom for the pupils to participate, and facilitates their learning.

The study tries to investigate the effect of using humour as a technique in teaching, on improving the pupils‟ ability in terms of learning, retaining and recalling of the new vocabularies for a long period of time.

It is hypothesized that there is a statistically significant difference between the control and the experimental group in the learning, retaining and recalling of new English vocabularies