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Wafa Abu Shmais
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N AN EFFORT TO HELP LOW-ACHIEVING STUDENTS AT AN-NAJAH NATIONAL
University, I came up with a way to help them study vocabulary. Limited vocabulary
had affected the students’ success with reading passages and made it difficult
for them to pass the required English courses. The classroom technique that
I describe below made students more interested in the reading passages and thus
helped them increase their vocabulary and in the end have better overall performance
in the course.
Before, when students were having difficulty with their English course, they
were given extra work in the form of three short quizzes, two homework assignments,
and a library assignment based on paragraphs selected from the material
covered in class. This plan had been known as the “Salvation Plan.” The quizzes