VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES PHAM THI TAM DIFICULTIES IN MEMORIZING ESP VOCABULARY IN THE COURSE BOOK “ENGLISH FOR FINANCE” FACED BY THE SECOND-Y EAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT THE ACADEMY OF FINANCE AND SOME SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS ( Nưững khá khăn mà sinh viên nim thiv hai khong chuyén tiéng Ank hoc viện tài chính gặp phải khi ghỉ nhờ từ vựng táng Anh chuyên ngành và một số giải pháp) M. MINOR THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 602215 Ha Noi— 2012 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES PHAM THI TAM DIFICULTIES IN MEMORIZING ESP VOCABULARY IN THE COURSE BOOK “ENGLISH FOR FINANCE” FACED BY THE SECOND-Y EAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT THE ACADEMY OF FINANCE AND SOME SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS (Nhitng khé khan ma sink vién năm thủ hai không chuyên tỗng Anh học viện tài chính gặp phải khi ghỉ nhờ từ vựng táng Anh chuyên ngành và một số giải pháp) M. MINOR THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 602215 Supervisor: Le The Nghiep, M. Ha Noi - 2012 iv LIST OF TABLES AND CITARTS Tables: No Title Page 1 | Students’ opinion on the language input 19 2 | Students’ opinion on their teachers’ vocabulary teaching methods 21 3 | Students’ opinion on their own vocabulary leanung 23 4 _ | Students’ vocabulary memorizing strategies used “ No Title Page 1 ‘The comparison between used strategies and effective ones 25 w TABLE OF CONTENTS: Candidatz”s s†afsmenf.
cành hen nh hrohoeoeeoc Acknowledgements - ii Abstract 11 List of tables and charts. iv List of abbreviations x Table of contents vi PART A: INTRODUCTION 1 ‘The rationale of the study a Tho aims of the study ? Roscarch questions.sinenenmuneinininaneineninennunanminaneemuninnnmiennnned ‘The scope of the StUdY.ssnsmuetninnanteneniminneitemnnennenimneisnn The method of the Study Nó The design of the Study. 3 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW. Vocabulary in second language learning and teaching.
3 LLL Definitions of vocabulary. The status of vocabulary in language teaching and learning. Main characteristics of vocabulary in business context. nh ốc ốc.3, Factors qfềcting NẠP vocnbuÍOFV HeiiOPINB cà.1 Word ralatad factors fi 1.2, Lecrmer-s related [NGÁOS.3, Teacher- rebated fOctor sierra 1 12.
Learning context - - - - - a LF CHAPTER 2: THE INVESTIGATION. The context of teaching and learning ESP vocaludary in “Engliyf for Faunce” atthe AOL - - - - - - - 1 2. A description of the course hook and the spllabus is 2.2, The second-year non-English major giHÄPHS. The teachers and their methods of teaching.
Main characteristics of vocabulary in business context What vocabulary is and how important it is in second language learning: and teaching have just been discussed in the above sections. In this section, what ESP vocabulary is and what major characteristics of vocabulary in business context are will be mentioned. ESP vocabulary English for Specific Purposes (SP) represents a specific reason for learning a foreign language. ‘There are two distinguished types of L'SP: Linglish for Occupational Purposes (EOP- leaming English for a job) and English for Academie Purposes (EAP - learning English for a study specialization), At present, these streams include many other fields, e.
English for Technicians, English for business, ete. Technical words arc specialized words closcly related to a specific arca or ficld of study like engineering, medicine, linguistics, etc. They are commonly used in specialized course bouks. The meaning ofa word siricl to the field in which it occurs identities this group of words and its high frequency of occurrence or use in that field and covers about 5% of running words in the text (Nation, 2001).
Specialized words are made up of words thal occured frequently in a specialized lexl ar subject area but did not occur or were of frequency in other fields (Nation and Chung 2004), Main characteristics of vocabulary in business context Itis necessary to specify that the characteristics of specialized English, including medical Fnglish, tecturical Drglish, bustnsss Dnglish, ele Hes in its lexicon, Nguyen Phuoe Vinh (2011) researches the main characteristies of Business English, Business English covers many subjects and professions, therefore; the meaning of a word is usually related to one/more than one subject such as accounting, finance, banking, markeling, cle. Thes foltowing parts will focus on the morphological and semantic characteristics of financial, accounting, and banking English vocabulary (Vink, 2011). Morphologically he mentions: Simple words: financial, accoumting, and banking English has simple words such as “asscf, ‘bear’, ‘capital’, ‘debit’, ‘camings’, ‘fraud’,cte., and most words are composite in that they have a recognizable internal structure PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW LL. Vocabulary in second language Icarning and teaching LLL.
Definitions of vocabulary There have been different definitions of vocabulary, Ur (1996) defined vocabulary as “the words we teach in the foreign language. lowever, a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word: a compound of lwo or three words or multi- word idioms”. A similar definition fiom Richards and Platt (1992) is that vocabulary is “a set of lexemes, including words, compound words and idioms”. Read (2000) believes that vocabulary is considered as an inventory of individual words, with their associated, meanings.
From different detinitons of vocabulary, it indicates that vocabulary is “the total number of words in a language” (Homby, 1995) 11. The status of vocabulary in language teaching and learning Vocabulary teaching and learning has changed dramatically in the last two decades, Me Carthy (1990) pomled oul thal the bigges! componenl, of any language course is vocabulary. The fact is that no matter how well the student Jeams grammar, no matter how successfully the sounds of second language (L2) are mastered, without words to express a wide range of meanings, communication in an L2 just cannot happen inany mcaringful way. Since the mid-1980s there has been a renewed interest in the role of vocabulary in scoond language Icarning, There have been studics on the nature of the bilingual lexicon, vocabulary acquisition, lexical storage, lexical remeval, and the use of vocabulary by second language leamers.
Vocabulary is an essential component of language. “Vocabulary is central to language” and “words are of critical importance to the typical language learner. Nowadays, vocabulary is considered an imporlant aspect of teaching and learning a foreign tanguage.2 vocabulary acquisition has become an increasingly interesting topic of discussion for researchers, teachers, curiculum designers, theorists, and others involved in second language learning and teaching. PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW LL.
Vocabulary in second language Icarning and teaching LLL. Definitions of vocabulary There have been different definitions of vocabulary, Ur (1996) defined vocabulary as “the words we teach in the foreign language. lowever, a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word: a compound of lwo or three words or multi- word idioms”. A similar definition fiom Richards and Platt (1992) is that vocabulary is “a set of lexemes, including words, compound words and idioms”.
Read (2000) believes that vocabulary is considered as an inventory of individual words, with their associated, meanings. From different detinitons of vocabulary, it indicates that vocabulary is “the total number of words in a language” (Homby, 1995) 11. The status of vocabulary in language teaching and learning Vocabulary teaching and learning has changed dramatically in the last two decades, Me Carthy (1990) pomled oul thal the bigges! componenl, of any language course is vocabulary. The fact is that no matter how well the student Jeams grammar, no matter how successfully the sounds of second language (L2) are mastered, without words to express a wide range of meanings, communication in an L2 just cannot happen inany mcaringful way.
Since the mid-1980s there has been a renewed interest in the role of vocabulary in scoond language Icarning, There have been studics on the nature of the bilingual lexicon, vocabulary acquisition, lexical storage, lexical remeval, and the use of vocabulary by second language leamers. Vocabulary is an essential component of language. “Vocabulary is central to language” and “words are of critical importance to the typical language learner. Nowadays, vocabulary is considered an imporlant aspect of teaching and learning a foreign tanguage.2 vocabulary acquisition has become an increasingly interesting topic of discussion for researchers, teachers, curiculum designers, theorists, and others involved in second language learning and teaching.
Main characteristics of vocabulary in business context What vocabulary is and how important it is in second language learning: and teaching have just been discussed in the above sections. In this section, what ESP vocabulary is and what major characteristics of vocabulary in business context are will be mentioned. ESP vocabulary English for Specific Purposes (SP) represents a specific reason for learning a foreign language. ‘There are two distinguished types of L'SP: Linglish for Occupational Purposes (EOP- leaming English for a job) and English for Academie Purposes (EAP - learning English for a study specialization), At present, these streams include many other fields, e.
English for Technicians, English for business, ete. Technical words arc specialized words closcly related to a specific arca or ficld of study like engineering, medicine, linguistics, etc. They are commonly used in specialized course bouks. The meaning ofa word siricl to the field in which it occurs identities this group of words and its high frequency of occurrence or use in that field and covers about 5% of running words in the text (Nation, 2001).
Specialized words are made up of words thal occured frequently in a specialized lexl ar subject area but did not occur or were of frequency in other fields (Nation and Chung 2004), Main characteristics of vocabulary in business context Itis necessary to specify that the characteristics of specialized English, including medical Fnglish, tecturical Drglish, bustnsss Dnglish, ele Hes in its lexicon, Nguyen Phuoe Vinh (2011) researches the main characteristies of Business English, Business English covers many subjects and professions, therefore; the meaning of a word is usually related to one/more than one subject such as accounting, finance, banking, markeling, cle. Thes foltowing parts will focus on the morphological and semantic characteristics of financial, accounting, and banking English vocabulary (Vink, 2011). Morphologically he mentions: Simple words: financial, accoumting, and banking English has simple words such as “asscf, ‘bear’, ‘capital’, ‘debit’, ‘camings’, ‘fraud’,cte., and most words are composite in that they have a recognizable internal structure PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW LL. Vocabulary in second language Icarning and teaching LLL.
Definitions of vocabulary There have been different definitions of vocabulary, Ur (1996) defined vocabulary as “the words we teach in the foreign language. lowever, a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word: a compound of lwo or three words or multi- word idioms”. A similar definition fiom Richards and Platt (1992) is that vocabulary is “a set of lexemes, including words, compound words and idioms”. Read (2000) believes that vocabulary is considered as an inventory of individual words, with their associated, meanings.
From different detinitons of vocabulary, it indicates that vocabulary is “the total number of words in a language” (Homby, 1995) 11. The status of vocabulary in language teaching and learning Vocabulary teaching and learning has changed dramatically in the last two decades, Me Carthy (1990) pomled oul thal the bigges! componenl, of any language course is vocabulary. The fact is that no matter how well the student Jeams grammar, no matter how successfully the sounds of second language (L2) are mastered, without words to express a wide range of meanings, communication in an L2 just cannot happen inany mcaringful way. Since the mid-1980s there has been a renewed interest in the role of vocabulary in scoond language Icarning, There have been studics on the nature of the bilingual lexicon, vocabulary acquisition, lexical storage, lexical remeval, and the use of vocabulary by second language leamers.
Vocabulary is an essential component of language. “Vocabulary is central to language” and “words are of critical importance to the typical language learner. Nowadays, vocabulary is considered an imporlant aspect of teaching and learning a foreign tanguage.