This study investigates the effects of using images and teacher's reading-aloud for vocabulary
learning on Korean elementary school students' lexical competence and attitude. For this
purpose, a total of 135 elementary school students were divided into two experimental groups
and a control group in the study. The first experimental group was taught the meaning of new
lexical items through using images, the second experimental group was taught new vocabulary
through the teacher's reading-aloud, and the control group memorized the new vocabulary. The
results of the study showed that there was no significant difference among the experimental
groups. However, the mean scores of the experimental groups improved, especially the
performance of the second experimental group, i.e., the teacher's reading aloud activity group,
improved the most. In addition, the experimental groups' overall attitude toward using images
and teacher's reading-aloud vocabulary learning improved in the affective domains such as
interest, confidence, learning method, learning condition, and attitude in vocabulary learning. In
particular, a significant difference was found in the domain of interest in the experimental
group using images. The control group, however, showed a lower score on the post-test than
the pre-test score.