The impact of using the loci method on the second year intermediate pupils' achievement and interest in English

Abstract EN

This research aims at investigating the impact of using the loci method on the second year intermediate pupils' achievement and interest English.

The sample of the study had been randomly chosen from among the female intermediate school pupils in the city of Mosul.

The sample consists of (60) subjects divided into two groups.

The first group represented the experimental group which was taught by using the loci method, while the second group represented the control group which was taught by using the traditional method .The researcher chose the design of post-test equivalent groups as an experimental design.

Both tools (achievement test and interest scale) were prepared by the researcher herself depending on previous studies.

The validity of the two tools had been confirmed by presenting them to a number of experts.

The reliability factor had been computed by using Kidder Richardson's formula (20) for the achievement test, while Pearson correlation coefficient had been used for the interest scale.

After the treatment, T-test had been used to analyse the results.

The findings show that there had been statistically significant differences between the experimental group and the control group in favour of the experimental group.