Involvement Load Hypothesis: A New Trend in EFL Contexts

This research is a proposal for applying ILH strategy in EFL curriculum.The study aimed at investigating the effect of the involvement load hypothesis-based strategy on developing the English vocabulary acquisition and retention.It was delimited to a random sample of seventy-five EFL first-year secondary school learners.The sample was divided into three equal groups.The instruments of the study included (1) a Vocabulary Familiarity Questionnaire (VFQ) for making sure that the target words and idioms that would be used in the current study were not familiar to the students, (2) a pretest for identifying the participant's current level and making sure that all the three groups were at the same level, and (3) a post-delayed test for identifying the effectiveness of the activities based on the ILHBS.Equivalent vocabulary pre-and post-delayed tests were designed.The researcher conducted the pretest, the involvement load hypothesis based-strategy (ILHBS) and the postdelayed test.Having collected the data, they were treated statistically.results of the study indicated that the first-year secondary school EFL learner's vocabulary acquisition and retention skills had been developed as a result for the ILH-based activities.