Table 1: The Number of Words and Lessons in Book Three

<p>Three hundred and thirty three lexical items included in the English textbook, namely,<br> Birjandy, P. &amp; Norouzi, M. &amp; Mahmoody, G. (2004). English Book Three, which is routinely<br> assigned by the Ministry of Education for EFL teaching in Iranian public high schools in Grade<br> three were taught to the participants in the present study. The book typically includes sections of<br> reading comprehension, grammar, pronunciation practice, dialogues, and a list of new words (with<br> no explanation of meaning or synonyms) in the ending part of each lesson. These wordlists (See<br> Appendix 1) were used for vocabulary instruction and subsequent vocabulary testing in the study.<br> To save space, the number of the new words in each lesson is presented in Table 1</p>