Investigating the Impact of Storytelling Strategy in Teaching Vocabulary Growth to Undergraduate EFL Iraqi Learners

The following study examines the role of storytelling Strategy on EFL Iraqi learners vocabulary growth. For this purpose, the participants in this study were 50 EFL Iraqi learners (out of a population of 127) who attend the second grade at the Computer Science department at the Collage of computer science and math/ Tikrit university who have been studying during the first semester of the academic year 2023/2024. They were in two parts, part A which consisted of  25 learners. It was labeled as EG while, section B contained 25 learners. Assigned as the CG.  They enroll voluntarily and within academic semester 2023-2024. With respect to the materials, they were thought out by the teacher/researcher in the first place. A slide presentation (Power Point presentation) of some stories compiled and adopted by teacher/researcher. In the study, participants learned the key words through associated pictures and gestures. After that, the teacher named the new words and then started with narration and introduction of the stories. While reading, the teacher then directed participants to the PowerPoint slide that contained the picture. A posttest to the experimental group of vocabulary growth successfully used. The experimental groups demonstrated a significant increase in vocabulary growth as compared to the control. Last Interest rate increase of subjects in  experimental group. At the beginning of the first semester of the academic year 2023/2024, the two groups of learners sat for a test of a vocabulary growth to find out their real level in vocabulary growth prior to performing the experiment. In the findings of this research, it was observed that the experimental group performed better than the control group in the vocabulary growth skill because of a new strategy of teaching which is telling story strategy In brief, this research showed that the implementation of telling story strategy could improve the students vocabulary growth and stimulate their motivation on learning English. Both the pre and post-tests had one section; the test of vocabulary growth that assessed EFL learners' vocabulary growth. The 25-item questionnaire that the learners of the EG had to fill out examined the degree of the students’ attitude towards the use of telling story strategy (a locus to determine the impact of the assisting strategies on the growth of vocabulary of the EFL learners).