Khó khăn trong việc học từ vựng tiếng Anh của học sinh lớp 10 tại trường THPT Đông Sơn I

Luận văn thạc sĩ nghiên cứu vnu ulis difficulties in learning english vocabulary faced by the 10th from students at đông sơn 1, đánh giá hiện trạng, phân tích vấn đề, đề xuất biện

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DECLARATION

LIST OF CHARTS AND TABLES

1. CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1. Introduction

1.2. An overview of vocabulary

1.2.1. Definitions of vocabulary

1.2.2. The notion of word

1.2.3. Vocabulary item

1.3. Roles of vocabulary in second language learning

1.4. Aspects of knowing a word

1.4.1. Word form: pronunciation and spelling

1.4.2. Grammar

1.4.3. Collocation

1.4.4. Word meanings

1.4.5. Word-formation

1.5. Explicit and implicit vocabulary learning

2. CHAPTER 2: THE STUDY

2.1. The context of teaching and learning English at DSUSS

2.2. Restating the research question

2.3. Data collection instruments

2.4. Data collection procedure

2.5. Data analysis and discussion

2.5.1. Students’ level of English vocabulary

2.5.2. Students’ attitudes towards learning English vocabulary

2.5.3. Students’ difficulties in learning a new word

2.5.4. Students’ preference and attitudes towards ways of learning English vocabulary

2.5.5. Students’ preference, attitudes and expectation towards English vocabulary teaching method

3. CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS

3.1. Students’ difficulties in learning English vocabulary

3.1.1. Difficulties related to students themselves

3.1.2. Ineffective ways of learning vocabulary

3.1.3. Lack of motivation

3.1.4. Difficulties related to vocabulary itself

3.1.5. Difficulties related to teachers

3.1.5.1. Teachers’ attitude to students
3.1.5.2. Teacher’s teaching method
3.1.5.3. The poor application of teaching aids and reference materials
3.1.5.4. The challenging curriculum

3.2. For the teachers

3.2.1. Improving awareness of teachers’ roles

3.2.2. Improving vocabulary teaching method

3.2.3. Improving students’ self-study

3.3. For the students

3.4. For the administrators at DSUSS

3.5. Limitations of the study

3.6. Suggestions for further research

REFERENCES

APPENDIX 1: SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE

APPENDIX 2: SURVEY INTERVIEW

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ***************** LÊ THỊ MINH DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FACED BY THE 10TH FORM STUDENTS AT ĐÔNG SƠN I UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL (Những khó khăn trong việc học từ vựng Tiếng Anh của học sinh lớp 10 tại trường THPT Đông Sơn I) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Language Teaching Methodology Code: 60 14 10 HANOI – 2013 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ***************** LÊ THỊ MINH DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FACED BY THE 10TH FORM STUDENTS AT ĐÔNG SƠN I UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL (Những khó khăn trong việc học từ vựng Tiếng Anh của học sinh lớp 10 tại trường THPT Đông Sơn I) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Language Teaching Methodology Code: 60 14 10 Supervisor: Lâm Thị Phúc Hân, M. HANOI – 2013 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABBREVIATIONS L1: mother tongue L2: second language DSUSS: Dong Son I upper secondary school Q: questionnaire item I: question in interview iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF CHARTS AND TABLES Charts: Chart 1: Students’ level of English vocabulary Chart 2: Students’ attitudes towards vocabulary learning in English acquisition Chart 3: Students’ attitudes towards learning new words Chart 4: Students’ difficulties in learning new words Chart 5: Students’ evaluation of their ways of learning new words Chart 6: Students’ attitudes towards teacher’s role in their English vocabulary acquisition Chart 7: Teachers’ ways to present new words Chart 8: Effective ways of new words presentation to students Chart 9: Students’ evaluation towards teachers’ teaching method Tables: Table 1: Students’ time for learning new words Table 2: Students’ ways of learning new words Table 3: Students’ expectation to ways of learning new words Table 4: Students’ preference towards teachers’ activities in vocabulary lesson Table 5: Students’ expectation towards teachers’ activities in vocabulary lesson v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DECLARATION …………………………………….………………………… iv LIST OF CHARTS AND TABLES ……………………………………. Rationale for the study ………………………………………. Aims of the study ……………………………………………………. Scope of the study …………………………………………………. Methods of the study …………………………………………………. Organization of the study ……………………………………………. 5 CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW ………………………………. An overview of vocabulary…. Definitions of vocabulary …………………. The notion of word …………………………………………… 5 1. Roles of vocabulary in foreign language learning …………… 6 1. Aspects of knowing a word …………………………………. Explicit and implicit vocabulary learning ……………………. Difficulties in vocabulary learning . 12 CHAPTER II: THE STUDY ……………………………………………. The context of teaching and learning English at DSUSS ………. 13 vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Restating the research question ………. Data collection instruments ……………………………. Data collection procedure ………………………………. Data analysis and discussion ………………………………………. Students’ level of English vocabulary …………………………. Students’ attitudes towards learning English vocabulary ……. Students’ difficulties in learning a new word …………………. Students’ preference and attitudes towards ways of learning English vocabulary ……………………………. Students’ preference, attitudes and expectation towards English vocabulary teaching method ……………………. 26 CHAPTER III: FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS …………………. Students’ difficulties in learning English vocabulary ……………. Difficulties related to students themselves ……………………. Ineffective ways of learning vocabulary ………………. Lack of motivation …………………………………. Difficulties related to vocabulary itself ……………………. Difficulties related to teachers ………………………………… 30 3. Teachers’ attitude to students …………………………. Teacher’s teaching method ……………………………… 30 3. The poor application of teaching aids and reference 31 materials vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. The challenging curriculum ……………………………. For the teachers ………………………………………………. Improving awareness of teachers’ roles ………………… 31 3. Improving vocabulary teaching method ………………… 32 3. Improving students’ self-study ………………………. For the students …. For the administrators at DSUSS . Limitations of the study ………………………………………………. Suggestions for further research ……………………………………… 42 REFERENCES ……………………………………………………….I APPENDIX 1: SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE APPENDIX 2: SURVEY INTERVIEW viii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale for the study As far as we know, English is a common language in international communication. In Vietnam, with the reformation of the economy and society, as well as the implementation of the open - door policy, English has been used more and more widely. English also becomes a compulsory subject in education curriculum. It is known that, in learning a foreign language in general, and English in particular, the knowledge and mastery of vocabulary play an extremely important role. McCarthy (1990) states that “No matter how well the student learns grammar, no matter how successfully the sounds of L2 are mastered, without words to express a wide range of meanings, communication in an L2 just cannot happen in any meaningful way.” By having rich vocabulary, students can improve their listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities; not only in the way they comprehend but also in the way they produce language. In reality, in Viet Nam, vocabulary lessons are not paid enough attention in order to help students learn new words more interestedly and effectively. As a result, most of them have formed a habit of only learning new words found in their text books or through teacher’s sources. They normally learn vocabulary by such methods as listing new words on a notebook and learning them by heart, writing new words repeatedly down on papers, reading new words out loud several times, and so forth. These above seem not to be very effective and interesting ways for vocabulary acquisition. Moreover, students only think of vocabulary learning as knowing the primary meaning of new words, they ignore all other functions of the words. Many of them may also recognize a word in a written or spoken form and think that they already "know the word", but they may not be able to use that word properly in different contexts or pronounce it correctly. Many students, after learning English for many years, they can only read and understand short and simple texts and hardly communicate in English. 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com As a teacher of English, I have dealt with many questions relating to vocabulary learning which are raised by my students or among my colleagues. For example, what are the effective ways of learning vocabulary? How to retain a new word in the mind? Therefore, I conducted a study to find out the main difficulties in learning vocabulary faced by the 10th form students at Dong Son I upper secondary school (DSUSS). Then I would like to give some suggestions to help students learn English vocabulary more effectively. Aims of the study The study aims to find out the difficulties faced by the 10th form students at DSUSS when they learn English vocabulary. Then some suggestions will be given to help students learn English vocabulary more effectively. Research questions This research was carried out to find out the answers to the following research questions: - What are the difficulties in learning English vocabulary faced by the 10th form students at DSUSS? - What are the suggestions that help the students learn English vocabulary better? 4. Scope of the study The study was designed to find out the difficulties in learning English vocabulary faced by the 10th form students at DSUSS . In the context of teaching and learning English at DSUSS, English vocabulary mentioned here mean the new words in the English textbook Tieng Anh 10 that students are taught or learn by themselves. The target population is the 10th form students. They have experienced from 4 to 7 years of learning English, but their English knowledge is not very good. The findings of the study would be much beneficial to both teachers who are considering whether to improve their students’ vocabulary and students who wants to overcome the difficulties and boredom in learning vocabulary. 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Methods of the study In order to achieve the purpose of the study, both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. A survey questionnaire and an informal interview were implemented with 120 10th form students who were chosen randomly. The questionnaire consists of 18 questions grouped into 2 main parts, that is background information which helps to seek for information concerning students’ background and the reality of learning English vocabulary which serves for gathering information of students’ attitudes to vocabulary learning, the ways the students learn English vocabulary, some difficulties they face when learning English vocabulary, the ways they are taught English vocabulary and their expectation towards English vocabulary teaching method. The informal interview with 30 students was conducted basing on the students’ answers in the survey questionnaire. Organization of the study The thesis is composed of three main parts: Part A - Introduction. In this part the rationale, the aims, the research questions, the scope, the method, and the organization of the study are presented. Part B - Development This part is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1: Literature Review This chapter presents the theoretical background for the study. It focuses on some concepts in the second language vocabulary learning and some difficulties in second language vocabulary learning. Chapter 2: The study This is the main part of the study. It describes the context of the study, the participants, the data collection methods and data analysis procedure. 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Chapter 3: Findings and Suggestions This chapter presents some main findings in the study, the relevant discussion and some teaching and learning implications. Part C - Conclusion This part summarizes the study, states the concluding remarks, the limitation of the research and offers suggestions for further research. 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Introduction This chapter provides a brief review of the theoretical knowledge relevant to the study including An overview of vocabulary; Vocabulary learning; What can cause difficulties in vocabulary learning. An overview of vocabulary 1. Definitions of vocabulary Different linguistics defined vocabulary in different ways. Penny Ur (1996:60) defined vocabulary as “the words we teach in the foreign language. However, a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word: a compound of two or three words or multi-word idioms”. Richards and Platt (1992: 400) also noted that vocabulary is “a set of lexemes, including words, compound words and idioms”. These statements indicate that vocabulary is “the total number of words in a language” (Hornby, 1995:1331). The notion of “word” Vocabulary mastery begins with a word. So what is a word? Michael McCarthy (1990) defined words as “free-standing items of language that have meaning. For example: the word eating is free-standing in itself, and that within it has another potentially free-standing element eat, independently meaningful from the second element -ing. Pyles and Algeo (1970:96) said “when most of us think about language, we think first about words. It is true that the vocabulary is the focus of language. It is in words that sounds and meanings inter-lock to allow us to communicate with one another, and it is words that we arrange together to make sentences, conversations and discourse of all kinds”. 5 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Vocabulary item As in Penny Ur’s definition of vocabulary, a new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word. For example, post office and mother-in-law, which are made up of two or three words but express a single idea. Another term to call for vocabulary is “chunks” as stated by Schmitt, N & McCarthy, M (1997): “Some of the vocabulary people know is originally learned as parts of multi-word chunks, often as phrases, idioms, or proverbs”. A useful convention is to cover all such cases by talking about vocabulary “items” rather than “words”. Roles of vocabulary in second language learning The prominent role of vocabulary knowledge in second language learning has been increasingly recognized. According to Bogaards, P.

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