Abstract: This study investigated the effect of Word Boxes on second grade pupils´ spelling in English. The sample consisted of two second grade sections from Douqarah Co-educational Basic School in Irbid City, Jordan. (N= 33 male students and 29 female students) in the first semester of the academic year. 25 words spelling test was administered twice; once before the study to establish the equivalence between the control and the experimental groups and another at the end of the study to investigate the effect of using Word Boxes on students' spelling. Moreover, the results of the study revealed statistically significant differences between the students' scores on the spelling test due to the teaching technique in favor of word boxes. There were statistically significant differences between students' scores on the spelling test due to gender, in favor of the female group. No statistically significant interaction between the teaching technique and gender were found.
Keywords: word boxes, spelling, Jordanian second grade students, teaching techniques.
Title: The Effect of Word Boxes on Jordanian Second Grade Pupils' Spelling in English
Author: Na'ela Al-Mahdawi, Abdallah Baniabdelrahman
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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