Word Puzzles Technique Designed for Developing Pupils’ Productive and Comprehension Skills

Аннотация

This research aims to determine whether word puzzles technique is a helpful tool for improving pupils' productivity and cognitive abilities in the classroom of the primary level. Word searches, is an example of word puzzles that aims to captivate pupils engagingly and entertainingly while fostering their language and critical thinking skills. The current research delves into how word puzzles can enhance pupils to learn the four learning skills: listening, speaking reading and writing. It also aims to develop pupils’ skills of thinking and problem-solving. The research evaluates pupils' development in sentence construction, complicated text comprehension, and vocabulary retention through a battery of classroom activities and tests. In light of these aims, the research’s null hypothesis has been formulated to be tested. The design of one group is adopted and pre and post-tests are used. The sample includes (30) female pupils who are randomly selected from Asia primary private school in Mosul city. The results show that word puzzles improve pupils' production and comprehension abilities and pique their desire to learn a new language. Findings from this study support the idea that word puzzles can be a useful supplemental tool for language teachers looking for new ways to help their pupils become more proficient speakers. Keywords: word puzzles technique, improving pupils' productivity and cognitive abilities. results in English. Introduction: Puzzle learning is a new teaching and learning technique that focuses on the development of Aims of the Study problem-solving skills. Word puzzles technique is one This study has designed a word puzzle technique to of its tools. Falkner, (2012). develop the productive and comprehension skills It is an effective learning tool in medical education, among primary school pupils. It aims to give pupils psychology, sociology, communications, nursing, chance to learn the four learning skills: listening, biology and business. It falls in two models: Crossword speaking reading and writing. It also aims to develop puzzle model and Word search model. The latter modal pupils’ skills of thinking and problem-solving. Besides, is tackled in this research. Word search model is a it advances tactics for developing pupils' productive structural, self-learning educational tool that reviews and comprehension skills of the English language in one and enhances knowledge and concepts acquired during of the primary schools in Mosul. The theme expressed the lesson. Latha, and Madhavan (2020). should promote introducing word puzzles as a means of motivation, and accordingly creates new educational Statement of the Problem: techniques. If word puzzles are viewed from an Teachers of primary schools concentrate on traditional educational psychology perspective, their use in the techniques of teaching, they rarely make efforts on classroom provides a variety of learning activity, using non-traditional techniques of teaching such as contributing to the development of pupils' attention word puzzles technique which develops the productive themselves locally and generally, memory, and logic in and comprehension skills among pupils, so their level is general. To develop all sorts of mnemonic operations, not as good as it should be, which reflects their poor it is advisable to use word puzzles, which require a lot American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research 59 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajsshr American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research (ISSN: 2771-2141) of attention and call for pupils to express themselves The historical aspect shows that long before our times, locally and generally. Orawiwatnakul, (2013). people liked solving puzzles. Using linguistic ones, teachers have to diversify the educational process, In middle aged, children should be prepared for easy create a cognitive motive for communication, motivate orientation of data material. Examples of favorable emotional development progress in language methodological based use of word puzzles in the education, and develop the pupils' cognitive domain. teaching of English show the perspective of this phenomenon and highlight their educational As a background historical aspect, word puzzles present importance, in other words, the opportunity to a huge interest. Many etymologists are fond of word introduce some reference material in its educational puzzles and admit that word puzzles originate from function and purpose. Accordingly, the installation ancient times when people made their first attempts in of figures should lead pupils to the above-mentioned writing. Such attraction towards word puzzles is easily technique, as well as to the establishment of the pupils' explained. First of all, their direct interpreter is productive and receptive skills, the aim of that is to language, which deserves constant interest from increase formation of an algorithm of pupils' technique speech researchers. Secondly, word puzzle