Word Learnability in Primary School English Textbooks

Word Learnability in Primary School English Textbooks

This study aims to identify the difference of the word learnability between listening and reading Primary school students of the third to sixth grade are sampled and tested with the words used in their textbooks The findings are as follows Firstly, words selected for the reading activities in the fifth grade are not easy to read because the level of correspondence between their sound and script is low, and because they are used for reading without prior presentation in a spoken form. Secondly, learning loads of word reading in the fifth and sixth grade is heavier than those of word listening. Thirdly, loan words and nouns are easily recognized in the reading test as well as the listening test lastly, the number of syllables and letters in a word appears to be related to the difficulty of word listening and writing for 5th and 6th graders, respectively