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2010

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Phí lưu trữ

30 Point

Mục lục chi tiết

Candidate's statement

List of abbreviations

List of tables and charts

Table of contents

1. PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Aims of the study

1.2. Scope of the study

1.3. Method of the study

1.4. Design of the study

2. CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Definition of vocabulary

2.2. Classification of vocabulary

2.3. The role of vocabulary in language teaching and learning

2.4. How teaching vocabulary differs from teaching other skills

2.5. What should be taught in teaching vocabulary

3. CHAPTER 2: AN INTRODUCTION ON THE CONTEXT OF LEARNING AND TEACHING VOCABULARY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT BVC

3.1. Teaching staff and teaching methods

3.2. Students and their background

3.3. The teaching materials

3.4. The course content

4. CHAPTER 3: THE STUDY

4.1. Context of the study

4.2. Instruments for collecting data

4.3. Interviews with ESP teachers

4.4. Data collection procedure

4.5. Data analysis results

4.6. The teachers' interviews

4.7. The students' questionnaires

4.8. Problems in teaching and learning vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering at BVC

4.9. Methods of teaching vocabulary

4.10. Knowledge of Mechanical Engineering

4.11. Ways of learning vocabulary

4.12. Level of English

4.13. Materials and equipment

5. CHAPTER 4: SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF VOCABULARY IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT BVC

5.1. Guiding students with different vocabulary learning strategies

5.2. Assigning and checking students' fulfillment of homework

5.3. Improving teachers' classroom techniques for teaching vocabulary in particular and teaching methodology in general

5.4. Improving specialized knowledge for ESP teachers

5.5. Equipping teaching facilities

Summary of the study

Limitations and suggestions for further study

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES   CAO THỊ TÚ TEACHING VOCABULARY IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TO THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT BACNINH VOCATIONAL COLLEGE: CHALLENGES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLUTIONS (NHỮNG KHÓ KHĂN VÀ GIẢI PHÁP GỢI Ý TRONG VIỆC DẠY TỪ VỰNG CHUYÊN NGÀNH CƠ KHÍ CHO SINH VIÊN NĂM THỨ HAI TRƯỜNG CAO ĐẲNG NGHỀ BẮC NINH) M. Minor Programme Thesis FIELD: TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60 14 10 SUPERVISOR: ASSOC. NGUYỄN VĂN ĐỘ Hanoi, July-2010 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS BVC: Bacninh Vocational College M.E: Mechanical Engineering GE: General English ESP: English for Specific Purposes LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com v LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS Tables: Table 1: Teachers’ difficulties in teaching vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering. Table 2 : The learners' purposes of learning vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering. Table 3: Students' ways of learning vocabulary. Table 4: Ways of learning English vocabulary for Mechanical Engineering. Table 5: Ways of vocabulary presentation students interested in. Charts: Chart 1: The teachers' attitude towards the importance of vocabulary in language teaching. Chart 2: Students' attitude towards vocabulary learning. Chart 3: Way of practising new words students like most. Chart 4: The students' attitudes towards the present course book. Chart 5: Parts students find most trouble when dealing with an English word. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Candidate's statement. iii List of abbreviations. iv List of tables and charts. v Table of contents. vi PART 1: INTRODUCTION. Aims of the study. Scope of the study. Method of the study. Design of the study. 4 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW. Definition of vocabulary. Classification of vocabulary. The importance of vocabulary in language teaching and learning. How teaching vocabulary differs from teaching other skills. What should be taught in teaching vocabulary? . Aspects of meaning. Techniques in vocabulary teaching currently used. Techniques in presenting vocabulary. 10 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Techniques in practising new words. Vocabulary in ESP teaching and learning. What is ESP? . The roles of ESP teachers.3 ESP and EGP. 13 CHAPTER 2: AN INTRODUCTION ON THE CONTEXT OF LEARNING AND TEACHING VOCABULARY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT BVC 2. Teaching staff and teaching methods. Students and their background. The teaching materials. The course content. 16 CHAPTER 3: THE STUDY. Context of the study. Instruments for collecting data. Interviews with ESP teachers. Data collection procedure. Data analysis results. The teachers' interviews. The students' questionnaires .Problems in teaching and learning vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering at BVC 3. Methods of teaching vocabulary. Knowledge of Mechanical Engineering . Ways of learning vocabulary. 29 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Level of English. Materials and equipment. 30 CHAPTER 4: SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF VOCABULARY IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT BVC 4. Guiding students with different vocabulary learning strategies. Assigning and checking students' fulfillment of homework. Improving teachers' classroom techniques for teaching vocabulary in particular and teaching methodology in general. Improving specialized knowledge for ESP teachers. Equipping teaching facilities …………………………………………………. Summary of the study. Limitations and suggestions for further study. I LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 1 PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale In recent years, there has been a global increase in the number of language teachers who have greater and wider responsibility thrust upon them by training institutions. They are required to teach English to students from various fields such as engineering, information science, medicine, accountancy, etc to enable them to cope with their academic work. This type of education is called English for Specific Purpose (ESP). Since ESP was introduced, it has attracted the attention of language instructors. Furthermore, the idea of English for Specific Purpose has been welcomed by staffs of universities who have seen the great benefits from teaching ESP. Also it is to meet the learners‘ needs for better reading of specialized books in English and for more successful job performance in the future. ESP courses are now offered not only by universities and colleges of language but also by departments of technical universities and colleges. Bacninh Vocational College (BVC) is a typical example of the training centre where ESP involved within an English language teaching situation in response to the demand for specific language skills. However, up to now, teaching and learning ESP, particularly teaching and learning vocabulary items has still been far from satisfactory. Being a teacher of English at BVC, the author does realize a number of problems that the teachers and students encounter in teaching and learning vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering. That is the reason why the author would like to carry out this research entitled, ―Teaching vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering to the second year students at Bacninh Vocational College: Challenges and suggestions for solutions”. Aims of the study The study is aimed at: a) Better understanding the notions, types, roles and techniques in teaching vocabulary currently used and vocabulary in ESP teaching and learning. b) Identifying some problems in teaching vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering at BVC. c) Offering some suggestions for solutions on teaching vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering at BVC. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 2 Hopefully, the study will make some contributions to the improvement of teaching ESP in general and teaching vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering in particular at BVC. 3) Scope of the study It is impossible to cover every aspect of language theory and practice in this study. Therefore the study focuses on problems in teaching vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering to the second year students at BVC. It is not proposed to deal with other language elements: pronunciation and grammar or with language skills. The other subjects of the study are the second year students at BVC. Also, the ―Specific Purpose‖ of the course are confined to ―English in Mechanical Engineering ―. Research questions The research is carried out with an attempt to find out the answer to the following research questions: - What are the main difficulties experienced by teachers teaching vocabulary to students of ME at BVC? - What suggestions for solutions should be offered to help teachers to find out the effective ways to teach vocabulary to students of ME at BVC? 5) Methodology The theoretical background of the study mainly relies on many published books written by different authors on language teaching, English for Specific Purpose, approaches to ESP teaching, etc. The major method used in the study is the quantitative one. That is all comments, consideration, suggestions given in the thesis are based on the analysis of the statistics from the survey questionnaires conducted with the teachers and students at BVC. Besides, the study is also carried out through course book assessment, informal interviews, and discussions with the teachers and students at BVC. Design of the study The study is organized into introduction, the main part and conclusion. The introduction includes the rationale, aims of the study as well as scope and methods of the study. The main part comprises 4 chapters. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 3 Chapter 1 deals with the theoretical background of the research. It is concerned with the issues relevant to the topic of the research: vocabulary (definition, classification and roles), techniques in vocabulary teaching and vocabulary in ESP teaching and learning. Chapter 2 is an overview of English teaching and learning context at BVC. Chapter 3 The study explores problems of teaching and learning vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering experienced by the teachers and students at BVC. Chapter 4 offers some suggestions for solutions to improve the teaching of vocabulary in Mechanical Engineering. The conclusion summarizes the issues addressed and presents recommendations for further improvements and some suggestions for further research. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 4 PART 2: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Definition of vocabulary There are different definitions of vocabulary. Each linguist gives his own definition of vocabulary depending on the criteria that he considers the most important in terms of linguistics, semantics, lexicology, etc. In her book, "A course in language teaching", Penny Ur defined vocabulary roughly as "the words we teach in the foreign language". However, she also accepted, "a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word, a compound of two or three words and multi-word idioms". Pyles and Algeo (1970) said, "it is true that vocabulary is the focus of language with its sound and meaning, which interlock to allow us to communicate with one another, and it is words that we arrange together to make sentences, conversation and discourse of all kinds " (p. This statement indicates that vocabulary is essential for learning a language. The American Heritage Dictionary defines vocabulary as "the sum of words used by, or at the command of a particular person of group ". According to Michael Lewis (1993:89), vocabulary ". may be individual words or full sentences - institutionalized utterances - that convey for social or pragmatic meaning within a given community ". In short, it can be concluded that vocabulary is the total number of all the words that a language possesses, including a single words, two or three words items expressing a single idea and multiword idioms of which meaning cannot be deduced from the analysis of the component words but only understood in the sentences, or in contexts, etc.2 Classification of vocabulary Vocabulary can be classified differently according to different criteria basing on morpheme, meaning, function, frequency or the use of word, etc. - Vocabulary classified according to the concept of morpheme Word can be divided into three kinds: simple, derived, and compound. Simple word A simple word consists of one morpheme only and cannot be broken down into smaller meaningful unit like heat, port, oil, gas… Derived word LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 5 A derived word is a word that consists of a root and one or more derivational morphemes. For example: democratic, taxation, vaccination, etc. Compound word A compound word is a word that consists of at least two roots with or without derivational morphemes. For example: electric fan, washing machine, man killer, etc. - Vocabulary classified according to meanings A word can possess two kinds of meaning: lexical and grammatical meanings. Vocabulary, therefore, can be divided into notional and functional words. Notional words Notional words are words with clear lexical meaning. They are objects, actions, qualities… and they have meaning in themselves. Notional words form a great number of each speaker‘s vocabulary. Example: a filter, a pendulum, to treat, to withstand … Functional words Functional words are those whose meaning is grammatical and they have meaning in relation to the order words with which they are used. Functional words are particles, articles, prepositions, auxiliaries, conjunctions… for example: at, on, and, because, then, there… - Vocabulary classified according to functions In sentence, word has many different functions. English words can be classified basing on function as different parts of speech such as noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition and pronoun. Each part of speech has to follow particular grammar rules so that when learning English words we have to be aware of the importance of the parts of speech of that word in sentence. For example: Noun: a pump, a diffuser, a tube Verb: to pivot, to clog, to install Adjective: precise, hydraulic, horizontal Apart from meaning, pronunciation and spelling of new words, learners need to know how these words function in sentences. For example, with the word „foreigner‟ some learners may make sentence like this: *‖ she‘s a foreigner student‖ In that case, teacher would need to clarify that „foreigner‟ is a noun, and the adjective of it is “foreign”. Also, teacher better needs to point out that a word can have more than one LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 6 grammatical function, for example „farm‟ can be a noun, a verb, an adjective.

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