Résumé:
This study aims to examine the effectiveness of using multimedia in teaching English as a
foreign language to primary school students. The study sample consists of 71 primary school
pupils who are between the age of seven and nine, in Gasmi Saleh primary school in
Al’Anasser. The sample of the study is divided into two groups: One is a control group which
is taught by a traditional method and the second is an experimental group taught by using
multimedia. To find out whether the use of multimedia as a teaching technique would have an
effect on the performance of the experimental group compared to the control group, the
researchers used a post-test only control group design to compare the performances of the two
groups. After the treatment, a post-test that focused on vocabulary was administered to the two
groups, and the results were compared using inferential statistics; an independent samples t-test
was run between the means of the two groups to find out whether statistically significant
differences exist between them. In addition, as a second tool, classroom observation was
conducted based on specific criteria in order to observe the participants’ reactions to the
treatment. The results suggest that the use of multimedia as a teaching technique is effective in
improving the young pupils' learning of vocabulary. The observation we conducted added
support to this finding, as positive reactions were observed in the experimental group’s
behaviours during the lessons
