Investigating into Vocabulary Retention of Bilingual & Monolingual High School Students in Shiraz

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Investigating into Vocabulary Retention of Bilingual & Monolingual High School Students in Shiraz

Abstract

A language is composed of rules and lexical structures that every person acquires from the birth or learns in variety conditions, the more words one knows the easier he/she uses the language. We know the importance of vocabulary learning in first language and second language. Vocabulary knowledge is an essential element of language learning.  We can usually evaluate that language knowledge according to its vocabulary.This study investigated vocabulary retention of monolingual and bilingual high school students in Shiraz. In this study, the participants were 95 students who were bilingual and monolingual; we had a pre-test which composed of 30 questions; after about 3 weeks which we presented the treatment, we had post-test. Then, delayed posttest was given to all participants after one months. The results indicated that there is a significant difference between monolingual and bilingual students in learning vocabulary in posttest and vocabulary retention in delayed posttest. In fact, bilingual students had a better performance in both vocabulary learning and vocabulary retention.