the role of kinesthesia in developing children’s learning of foreign language vocabulary: an experimental study.

The study aimed to investigate how far kinesthesia can develop children_s learning of foreign language vocabulary.  The researcher constructed a vocabulary test and then used it as a pre- and post-measure for the sake of finding out the effectiveness of his suggested treatment.  This treatment included teaching a 13-session English vocabulary program to a sample of 35 third-year primary school pupils (mean age = 8.7).  The researcher’s proposed program focused on and made use of children_s natural tendency to move and play.  The results of the study revealed that the proposed program significantly developed the subjects_ learning of the target words