The effectiveness of the Autoplay program in strengthening the Arabic vocabulary of school students in the city of Qeydar, Zanjan Province

Fundamental changes in traditional teaching methods and the use of new methods and techniques for teaching second languages have become a major pillar in teaching any foreign language to students. To this aim, this research investigated Arabic vocabulary learning among students using the virtual learning program Autoplay. This applied research was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with one experimental and one control group. The statistical population was seventh grade students of girls' schools from three schools in the city of Qeydar, who were studying in the academic year of 2021-2022. One school was randomly selected, and the sample size was determined to be 30. It included an experimental group that consisted of 15 people for class A (Autoplay software) and 15 people for class B (control group - traditional method). The pre-test-post-test method was used to collect information. The tests were paper-and-pencil and contained 10 questions with a total weight of 20 points, and the pre-test percentage was 81% and the post-test result was 90% for Autoplay. To analyse the data, the ANOVA was used to check the effect, and then according to the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores for both groups, independent group t-test was used in SPSS. The findings showed that the effect of the content produced through Autoplay on the learning of the Arabic lesson was confirmed and there was a difference between the average scores of the two groups. Also, in the pre-test stage, the average scores of both test groups were lower than the post-test stage. In other words, in the post-test phase, students performed better in learning Arabic.