Both groups studied the same textbook,focusing on reading comprehension during the four-month treatment period.The classeswere held twice a week,for 9o minutes each session.The book consisted of eight units,six of which were taught during the semester.After the reading of each unit,the students in Experimental Group Iused the remaining time for doing the related comprehension exercisesin the class.Then they were given a word list containing 5o of the difficult or new words appearing in the reading text along with theirEnglish equivalents to memorize at home.In Experimental Group 2,first the semantic mapping strategy was explained to the participantsand then the class was divided into small groups,each group workingon one part of the central concept.
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