Abstract:
Foreign language teachers have always tried to find the best and most effective ways to teach
new vocabulary to learners of foreign languages. This study focused on using form focused
instructions (FFI) to do that - it deals with learning vocabulary from reading texts by completing
tasks on them. The experiment was conducted at Mizan-Tepi University. The reading texts the
researcher used were accompanied by Focus on Form or integrated approach which illustrated
both Focus on Meaning and Focus on Forms task to draw the students’ attention to vocabulary
items. The aim of the research was to find out whether different FonF tasks are equally effective
in teaching vocabulary. The practical part of this thesis consists of conducting an experiment
with students. In order to meet the aim of the research, a reading text was prepared and
presented to the students, which accompanied by two exercises to check how well the students
comprehend the text in general and after checking the answers to both of the exercises, an
immediate post-test was conducted to find out their achievements shortly after learning the new
words and the reliability of the test was checked by using cronbach’s alpha. Lastly questionnaire
was prepared after the analysis that aimed at gathering information regarding students’
perception on new vocabulary achievements from reading texts. The results revealed that the two
groups were homogenous at the beginning of the experiment regarding new vocabulary
achievements from reading texts. This means that FFI does not have a significant effect on EFL
learners’ new vocabulary achievements from reading texts before intervention. The independent sample t-test conducted after the intervention or experiment revealed that the new vocabulary
achievement test was administered and the result of t-test confirmed hypothesis two as FFI have
statistically significant differences between the experimental and control group on students’ new
vocabulary achievements reading after intervention and the experimental group took the
perceptionstypequestionnaire
