LANGUAGE IN INDIA Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow The Impact of Translation Method on Word Meaning and Fill- In-the-Blank Tests Procedures on Short-Term and Long-Term Retention of Vocabulary Items The Impact of Translation Method on Word M

Abstract The purpose of research described in the present study to investigate the impact of translation method on word meaning and fill-in-the-blank tests, their correlation, and procedures on both short-term and long-term retention of vocabulary items. The current study explores the relations between the methods of language teaching (here, translation method) and type of tests (here, word meaning and Fill-in-the-blank tests). The paper presents a vocabulary knowledge scale and scores the learners" learnt vocabularies as achievement test. The population for subject recruitment was all under graduate students at the second semester in a large university in Iran (both male and female) who study English as a compulsory paper. In Iran, English is taught as a foreign language