The Role of Contextualized Testing Technique in Enhancing EFL Intermediate Students Capacity in Acquiring English Vocabulary

The present study aims to improve the learners' ability in acquiring vocabulary through using contextualized testing technique the problem of this study is that Iraqi EFL Intermediate School Students face difficulties when they acquire vocabulary. This is due to lack of suitable teaching techniques used by teachers to teach vocabulary. This study tries to find out the effect of using contextualized testing technique on the achievement of intermediate school students in learning vocabulary .The purpose of the present study is to use contextualized test technique to test vocabulary found in the 2nd intermediate students' book, hoping to improve their understanding of language vocabulary. Also, it aims to find out whether presenting the items in contextualized testing technique in an achievement vocabulary test affect the performances of students. To achieve the aims of the study, the following hypothesis is put: "There is a statistically significant difference between the students' mean scores of performance of the experimental group which is testing vocabulary performance by means of the proposed technique and that of the control group which is testing vocabulary according to traditional method of testing." The researcher followed the experimental design into which she has randomly chosen a sample being selected from the second intermediate school for girls. The researcher divided the sample into two groups, experimental and control, each of which includes 30 students. The results obtained from the post-test on both groups show that the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-test are (39.24) and (32.85) successively, which means that the experimental group achievement in the CT is better than that of the control group.