Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Linguistics is based on syntax, and syntax is essentially based on units. these unites are associated with meaning or function. The form of unit can be active or passive, this is based on the context, that means we understand the sentence via the meaning, this study is an attempt to reveal the role of developing third grade female students' Lexical competence and measure its effect on students' communication performance. The participants were 162 female students from 3rd grade, Department of English, College of Education for Women, University of Anbar. The participants are distributed to section A and section B. Section B was chosen randomly to represent the experimental group, and section A to represent the control group. An instructional Lexical Approach based teaching programme was prepared to train the students to develop their Lexical competence. A pre-test and post-test were prepared to collect the data of the study. The validity and the reliability of the instrument was verified. The results revealed that there is a significant difference between the experimental and the control group students' communicative performance for the favorit of the students of the experimental group. The effect size was medium. It can be concluded that focusing on the Lexical Approach in teaching productive skills is very important which equips students with the communication techniques and skills.
Author: Hala Hamid Hasan
Institution: University of Anbar
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7084119185