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Abstract
This study aimed to explore the effect of pictorial stories on the acquisition and retention of english vocabulary in kindergarten. the participants of the study were 46 kindergarten children of the second phase(K.G). they were randomly drawn from suezexperimental english language school during the first term of the school year 2011-2012. their ages ranged from5-6 years old. they were two classrooms which were already assigned by the school. the researcher chose one classroom to represent the control group(23 children)and the second classroom torepresent the expermintal group (23 children). the instructional materialsof the study were represented in a pictorial stories based-program(psbp). the control group was not exposed to the pictorial stories, while the exprimental one was exposed to the pictorial stories. the instrument of the study was the vocabulary acquisition and retention VAR test that was administeredpre, post and delayed post the PSBP. the pre-administration was intended to measure the equivalence of both the control and experimental group of KG2 children in their knowledge of the target vocabulary.the post-adminisrtation was intended to measure the acquisition of target vocabulary of both the control and experimental group after administernig the PSBP to the experimental group. the delayed post-administration measured the retention of target vocabulary of the experimental group after three weeks of applying the PSBP. differences in the mean scores between the tests were analyzed by using the two-tailed t-test. the results revealed that pictorial stories were effective for both vocabulary acquisition and retention of KG2 children.