Graduation Paper TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TABLE OF CONTENT PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Aims of the study. Scope of the study. Methods of the study.
Design of the study. 4 CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW. Theoretical knowledge of vocabulary .1 Definitions of vocabulary .2 Aspects of vocabulary knowledge .3 Classification of word.1 According to the meaning .2 According to the concept of morphemes .3 According to skills. 13 Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03 - (2012-2016) Graduation Paper 1.4 Principle of learning and teaching vocabulary.
Methods of teaching vocabulary .3 The Use of Dictionary. 17 CHAPTER II: THE STUDY. 20 4 Finding and discussion .1 Difficulties of students in learning English vocabulary.2 Difficulties encountered by the teachers. 30 CHAPTERIII:RECOMMENDATIONTOTEACHENGLISHVOCABULARY EFFECTIVELY FOR 7th GRADE STUDENT AT DEN LU SECONDARY SCHOOL.
The process of teaching English vocabulary for 7th grade students. Techniques to attract the student’s attention in vocabulary lesson. 36 Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03 - (2012-2016) Graduation Paper 3. Useful advice for English vocabulary teaching.
40 APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2 Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03 - (2012-2016) Graduation Paper LIST OF TABLES Table 1: The importance of learning English vocabulary. 26 Table 2: The interest of students in learning English vocabulary. 26 Table 3: Difficulties of learning English vocabulary. 27 Table 4: Source(s) student use to learn English vocabulary.
27 Table 5: Things students do when learning English vocabulary. 28 Table 6: strategies to learn English vocabulary. 28 Table 7: Ways teachers often use to present new word. 29 Table 8: Frequency of using modern equipment in teaching English vocabulary.
30 Table 9: Obstacles in teaching English vocabulary. 30 Table 10: Methods to encourage 7th grade students learning English vocabulary. 31 Table 11: The biggest challenge of 7th grade students when learning English vocabulary. 32 Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03 - (2012-2016) Graduation Paper PART A: INTRODUCTION 1.
Rationale In today’s global world, the importance of English cannot be denied and ignored since English is the most common language spoken everywhere. With the help of developing technology, English has been playing a major role in many sectors because it can help people to master their knowledge to gain success. English seems as an essential condition to integrate, especially in Vietnam. Hence, English is a compulsory subject in school to improve the ability of using English effectively for Vietnamese.
To understand the language, we have to invent the meaning of words as many as possible either in a sentence or in whole texts. The writer assumes that language is a systematic communication tool that may transfer ones' ideas orfeeling through body language, signs, sounds and gesture having understoodmeanings. On the other hands, by using language, one can express his ideas,feeling or information either orally or written.Because the definition of language refers to the expression of certainmeanings, of course, we may not neglect the role of vocabulary chosen. It plays an important role as means of understanding the meaning of words correctly Vocabulary is also an important part of the English teaching process.
It is supposed to be a very effective communicative device as it carries the highest level of importance within peoples' verbal interaction. Vocabulary teaching and learning is a constant challenge for teachers as well as students. Due to this, an increased emphasis on vocabulary development is crucial for the English language learner in the process of language learning. Therefore, the writer would like to execute this investigation in 7th grade students at Den Lu secondary school in order to find out difficulties of Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03-(2012-2016) Page 1 Graduation Paper teaching and learning English vocabulary.
Besides, some modern teaching methods are mentioned as effective solutions for English teachers could be able to teach the English vocabulary as many as possible in order to the students can actualize some or all of these points with the target vocabulary. Additionally,these points enable the English teachers to cover the language skills and thelanguage components, such as speaking, writing, grammar, pronunciation andspelling. The study also mentioned strategies that help secondary students learn English vocabulary effectively. Aims of the study This study focus on • giving the theory on English vocabulary • researching the factual English vocabulary teaching situation • defining difficulties of teaching and learning English vocabulary of 7th grade students • analyzing these obstacles to find out the causes • suggesting effective strategies to solve these issues • proposing supporting methods for teaching English vocabulary 3.
Scope of the study The study limits itself to the investigation of teaching and learning English vocabulary of 7th grade students in Den Lu secondary school. The solutions are provided to improve English vocabulary teaching in secondary school 4. Research questions • What are the difficulties of teaching English vocabulary of 7th grade students? • What are the causes of these issues? • How to teach English vocabulary for 7th grade students effectively? Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03-(2012-2016) Page 2 Graduation Paper 5. Methods of the study To do this study, the writer combines two research methods are observation and survey questionnaire.
Each method has its own advantages that can help writer has objective evaluation of research topic. Both methods are executed in the 7th grade of Den Lu secondary school. The data collected from the students and teachers of secondary school are analyzed to answer to research questions. Finally, the writer recommends some strategies to improve English vocabulary teaching and learning.
Design of the study This study is divided into 3 main parts: part A: introduction, part B: development, part C: conclusion. In part A, the research includes rationale, aim, scope and method of the study. It also mentions about research questions. While part B named development has 3 smaller chapters: the literature review, the study and the recommendation.
The literature review supplies lots of basis knowledge of vocabulary such as definition, the importance or different aspects, the classification of words, etc. The study category describes particularly process of conducting research include subject, setting, methods about learning and teaching English vocabulary in Den Lu secondary school .The collected data was analyzed to find difficulties of students and teachers there and suggest some useful advices in article recommendation. The last part is conclusion summarized the main ideas of the study. Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03-(2012-2016) Page 3 Graduation Paper PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.
Theoretical knowledge of vocabulary 1.1 The definitions of vocabulary Learning a new language cannot be separated from vocabulary. Meaning that in learning a new language people have to know its vocabulary. Vocabulary can be defined in various ways. Experts have proposed some terms about vocabulary.
According to Richards and Renandya (2002: 255), vocabulary is a core component of language proficiency and provides much of the basis for how learners speak, listen, read and write. Without an extensive vocabulary and strategies for acquiring new vocabulary, learners often achieve their potential and may be discouraged from making use of language learning opportunities around them such as listening to the radio, listening to the native speaker, using language in different context, reading or watching television. The other definition of vocabulary states from Hatch and Brown (1995:1), they say that vocabulary refers to a list or set of words for a particular language or a list or set of words that individual speakers of language might use. Hatch and Brown (1995:1) also state that vocabulary is the only system involved of alphabetical order.
Ur (1994: 60) defines vocabulary as the words we teach in the foreign language. In addition, Brown (2001: 377) views vocabulary items as a boring list of words that must be defined and memorized by the students, lexical forms are seen in their central role in contextualized, meaningful language. Richard in Schmitt (1997: 241) also states that knowing a word meaning knowing how often it occurs, the company it keeps, its appropriatness in Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03-(2012-2016) Page 4 Graduation Paper different situations, its syntactic behavior, its underlying form and derivations, its word associations, and its semantic features. Vocabulary is central to second language (L2) acquisition.
As McCarthy (1990: 140) states that without words to express a wider range of meanings, communication in an L2 just cannot happen in any meaningful way. Nation in Schmitt (2000: 5) proposes a list of the different kinds of knowledge that a person must master in order to know a words: the meaning of word, the written form of the word, the spoken form of the word, the grammatical behavior of the word, the collocations of the word, the register of the word, the association of the word, and the frequency of the word. Hebert and Kamil (2005: 3) define vocabulary is the knowledge of meanings of words. The term vocabulary has a range of meanings.
For example, some teachers use the term to mean sight-word vocabularies, referring to students‟ immediate recognition of words in print; other teachers refer to words students understand as their meaning vocabularies. Still other teachers use the term to mean listening vocabularies, or students‟ understanding of words that they hear in the spoken language. Content teachers use the term academic vocabulary to refer to content-specific words. Within this section, we use the term vocabulary to refer to students‟ understanding of oral and print words.
Vocabularies include conceptual knowledge of words that goes well beyond a simple dictionary definition. Students‟ vocabulary knowledge is a building process that occurs over time as they make connections to other words, learn examples and non-examples of the word and related words, and use the word accurately within the context of the sentence (Snow, Griffin, & Burns, 2005). Based on those statements, it can be assumed that vocabulary is a list of words as a basic component of language proficiency which has a form or Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03-(2012-2016) Page 5 Graduation Paper expression and contains of aspects, they are meaning, use of word, form (pronunciation and spelling) 1.2 Aspects of vocabulary There are several aspects of lexis that need to be taken into account when teaching vocabulary. The list below is based on the work of Gairns and Redman (1986) in Moras: • Boundaries between conceptual meaning: knowing not only what lexis refers to, but also where the boundaries are that separate it from words of related meaning (e.
cup, mug, bowl) • Polysemy: distinguishing between the various meaning of a single word form with several but closely related meanings (head: of a person, of a pin, of an organization). • Homonymy: distinguishing between the various meaning of a single word form which has several meanings which are not closely related (e. a file: used to put papers in or a tool). • Homophony: understanding words that have the same pronunciation but different spellings and meanings (e.
• Synonymy: distinguishing between the different shades of meaning that synonymous words have (e. extend, increase, expand). • Affective meaning: distinguishing between the attitudinal and emotional factors (denotation and connotation), which depend on the speakers attitude or the situation. A Socio-cultural association of lexical items is another important factor.
• Style, register, dialect: Being able to distinguish between different levels of formality, the effect of different contexts and topics, as well as differences in geographical variation. Do Thi Thuy Linh - 1271A03-(2012-2016) Page 6 Graduation Paper • Translation: awareness of certain differences and similarities between the native and the foreign language (e. • Grammar of vocabulary: learning the rules that enable students to build up different forms of the word or even different words from that word (e. sleep, slept, sleeping; able, unable; disability).