-f he purpose of this r~s2arch is to 2valu ate th e effectivenessrnof modern voc abul ary teaching methods and th& ex tent tornwhich th e se are implemented in Fr&shmJn EnQlish Courses.rnFor th is pur pose, the researcher imrle~ent0d these modernrnvocabul ary tea ching methods by conductin0 actual teachin s forrnan Experimenta l group. TherQ was a l so 1not~~r group known asrnth e controll ed group where teach ing W3S c ond uct ~d followingrnthe methods that a r ~ curY":nt~y in use in the t"achinq of Fresh manrnEnglish Courses.rnAn a ttempt to find out if th2ra was a difference betweenrnthe two groups was made by an Ddmin i str~t ion of b pr~ - testrnwhich ~ n abled the researcher to accep t the hypothesis that therntwo groups hRve no statistically si1nificant diffe rences ofrnbackground in their ~nowledge of vocabulary laarninn strate ' t~ â€¢ â€¢rnT~Qn, a six -week teaching of J material of a l most the sam2 con:rn:: ~t was cond. __ ~ed fo:" both the ~: roups , thou Clh the ~eti1ods ofrnt~aching differect sub ~ t a n t ially .rnSubsequently, a rost-test of th~ S3me natur~ was givenrnboth to th e Exper i ment)l Qnd Controll ed gr ou?s I t the sarnerntime. The results of ~hu Po st -Test of both groups w~re Cmparedrnand a mea n diff e r ence (f ft sian ific ant stati s, ic11 .31ue wa srnmanife sted. The mcan of the Exrcrim~ntal group was much higherrnthan the ~ean of th e controlled group a nd su ch a differEnc~rnc ~ uld h ~ v e come due to the modern vocab u~ary t : achOng lathoJsrnwith which the Expcrimental rroup was favour~d. H~vin1 h1drnthe same b~ckqround knowledq e of strJte gi es of voc ~bulft ryrn1 3 a~ring at tne b2~1~ n i~ s. the diff er2nce cou ld be sftid due tornnot~ing e lse, bu~ t~~ im plE me ntJtion Of the modern ~o -abu laryrnt ~ 't' -" 9 mct~odo:ogy wh~ch Mave armed th~ EXP Q ~im c ntal Jrouprn,Iitn th e need ed strat eg ies with which they can affGctivelyrnt"c~le ony problcQ of a voc 3bu:ary encounter .