BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG ------------------------------- ISO 9001:2015 KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Nguyễn Thị Bích Ngọc Giảng viên hướng dẫn: Th.S Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Chi HẢI PHÒNG - 2019 i BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- A STUDY ON TECHNIQUES TO LEARN AND IMPROVE ENGLISH LEXICAL RESOURCE FOR THE THIRD - YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT HAI PHONG PRIVATE UNIVERSITY KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP ĐẠI HỌC HỆ CHÍNH QUY NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Nguyễn Thị Bích Ngọc Giảng viên hướng dẫn: Th.s Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Chi HẢI PHÒNG - 2019 ii BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG -------------------------------------- NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Sinh viên: Nguyễn Thị Bích Ngọc. Mã SV: 1412751024 Lớp: NA1802. Ngành: Ngôn Ngữ Anh Tên đề tài: A study on techniques to learn and improve English lexical resource for the third - year English majors at Hai Phong Private Universiry iii NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI 1. Nội dung và các yêu cầu cần giải quyết trong nhiệm vụ đề tài tốt nghiệp ( về lý luận, thực tiễn, các số liệu cần tính toán và các bản vẽ).
Các số liệu cần thiết để thiết kế, tính toán. Địa điểm thực tập tốt nghiệp. iv CÁN BỘ HƯỚNG DẪN ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Người hướng dẫn thứ nhất: Họ và tên: Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Chi Học hàm, học vị: Thạc sĩ Cơ quan công tác: Trường Đại học Dân Lập Hải Phòng Nội dung hướng dẫn: A study on techniques to learn and improve English lexical resource for the third - yeat English majors at Hai Phong Private University. Người hướng dẫn thứ hai: Họ và tên:.
Học hàm, học vị:. Nội dung hướng dẫn:. Đề tài tốt nghiệp được giao ngày … tháng …. Yêu cầu phải hoàn thành xong trước ngày ….
năm …… Đã nhận nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Đã giao nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Sinh viên Người hướng dẫn Nguyễn Thị Bích Ngọc Th.S Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Chi Hải Phòng, ngày. Hiệu trưởng GS.NGƯT Trần Hữu Nghị v ABSTRACT This graduation thesis studies on techniques to learn and improve English lexical resource for the third-year English majors at Hai Phong Private University. The thesis is divided into four parts. The first part is the overview of the study.
The second part presents literature review of lexical resource and learning lexical techniques. The third part shows the results of the research and the final part is some suggestions for the problems. The aim of this thesis is to determine common difficulties which students encounter in learning English lexis and come up with some solutions to them. The methodology in this research is quantitative methodology with two data collecting techniques: questionnaire and document analyzing.
vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS During the process of doing this graduation paper, I have received many necessary assistances, precious ideas and timely encouragements from my teachers, family and friends. This paper could not have been completed without the help, encouragement and support from a number of people who all deserve my sincerest gratitude and appreciation. I would like to express my gratitude to my advisor Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Chi who has generously given me invaluable assistance and guidance.
Besides, I would love to give my sincere thanks to English Department – Hai Phong Private University, especially to all the teachers for their lectures supporting this study. Simultaneously, I would also like to thank all students of K19 – third year English majors at Hai Phong Private University, who were willing to help me fulfill the survey questionnaire for my analysis and supported me throughout my studies. Last but not least, I am grateful to my family and friends who have given me much encouragement during the time I carry out and accomplish this Graduation thesis. Hai Phong, April 2019 Student Ngoc Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT.vii TABLE OF CONTENTS.
viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. x CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY.1 Rational of the study.2 Aims of the study.5 Scope of the study.7 Organization of the study. 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.1 The definition of vocabulary.2 The importance of vocabulary (lexical resource).2 Difficulties in learning vocabulary. Difficulties in learning English lexical resource among the third-year English majors of English department of HP Private University.2 Factors affecting student’s difficulties in learning English vocabulary (Lexical resource).3 Techniques to acquire lexical resource.
11 CHAPTER III: RESEARCH FINDINGS.1 Participants and the samples.1 The survey questionnaire.4 The results of questionnaire and data analysis .1 The reasons to learn English lexical resource.2 Difficulties in learning English vocabulary of third -year English majors in classes at HPU .2 Students’ real situations of learning English vocabulary at HPU .3 Suggested techniques to improve English vocabulary. 29 CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS. Summary of the study. Limitations of the study.
Suggestions for the further study. 40 ix LIST OF ABBREVIATION Etc Et cetera Vân vân Hai Phong Private Đại Học Dân Lập Hải HPU University Phòng Pp. Exempli gratia Ví dụ x CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY 1. Rational of the study In the tendency of integration of the global economic.
English has become the global language means for multinational and multicultural communication. With the rapid development and expansion of informatic technologies, it is the most widely spoken foreign language in the world. Nowadays, it plays a vital role in many fields in the life including business, tourism business, foreign trade, science, technology, education, entertainment and so on. In Vietnam, English is known as a key language tool to success in science technology and get in touch on an international level.
It is undeniable that the importance of English has increased day by day in Vietnam. The number of English speakers has been on the rise for many years. Therefore, there has been an explosion in the need of teaching and learning English in Vietnam. However, to learn English as well as any new languages requires English learners to understand vocabulary meaning and use it well at first because vocabulary of a language is a minimum self-requirement of those who want to learn a foreign language such as English.
The reason is that “vocabulary is central to language and critical importance to the typical language learner. Wilkins (1974) stated that ‘‘there is not much value in being able to produce grammatical sentences if one has not got the vocabulary that is needed to convey what one wishes to say…while without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed”. Other scholars such as Richards (1980) and Krashen (1989) also indicated many reasons for devoting attention to vocabulary: “First, a large vocabulary is of course essential for mastery of a language. Second language acquirers know this; they carry dictionaries with them, not grammar books, and regularly report that the lack of vocabulary is a major problem’’, emphasizing that vocabulary plays an extremely essential role in language and the critical role of vocabulary learning in capturing a language as well.
In addition, the importance of vocabulary was also mentioned by Vermeer (1992): “Knowing words is the key to understanding and being understood. The bulk of learning a new language consists of learning new words. Grammatical knowledge of vocabulary does not make for great proficiency in a language”. It means that even someone has good grammar but it will be useless if they do not know many vocabularies.
Lack of lexical resource 1 knowledge will result in lack of meaningful communication, making learners have difficulties in study English, feeling reluctant to fluently. Without a sufficient understanding of words, English learner cannot communicate and express their own ideas or feeling both in spoken and written effectively. Therefore, improving vocabulary size is essential in any language classes, especially in student‘s learning English as their major at Hai Phong Private University. In conclusion, the learning vocabulary is obviously a very significant aspect in foreign language methodology and English methodology.
As an English major student, we should increase our vocabulary more and more. Having a large range of lexical resource make study English easily. It is also important to improve our skills in English. Despite the obvious importance of vocabulary, surely, there still remain some problems in learning English vocabulary, particularly at Hai Phong Private University (HPU), there is a fact that the third year English major at HPU have poor the a number of economic English vocabulary.
Surprisingly, students may be very good at doing grammatical exercises, but they find it hard to communicate well in English. Furthermore, students may own enough vocabulary but they are unable to put it to productive use and to form words and utterances in communication. In contrast, there is a fact that the economics term is an interesting and complex thing as well. Hence, many students have to face some difficult problems in sufficient awareness of both the vivid existence and meaning of economic terms and academic vocabulary.
That makes students become fed up with learning English vocabulary. Another reason is quite traditional and passive in both teaching and learning methods and similar activities day by day. For the obvious reasons above, it is an urgent need to take priority in English vocabulary learning. Therefore, I would like to suggest some appropriate and effective techniques of learning vocabulary to third year English major students at HPU with hope that the students acquire not only the meaning but also the active use of words for various purposes at first.
Secondly, applying vocabulary learning techniques in their learning process make them become independent and gain active positions in learning the vocabulary knowledge. Due to my English knowledge limitation and the frame of the graduation paper, the research ambition in this graduation paper is offering insightful techniques to 2 deal with this problem. For this reason, I would like to carry on this study with the title: “A study on techniques to learn and improve English lexical for the third year English major students at Hai Phong Private University. Aims of the study As an English department student, the main purpose of this study is to provide some suggested techniques in learning English vocabulary for the third year English major students to make students more interested in learning English vocabulary as well as mastering English vocabulary in the most effective way.
In order to gain this aim, the specific objectives of the study are: Firstly, the study focuses on the theory related to vocabulary, awareness of the importance of vocabulary and learning vocabulary techniques, as well as psychology features and characteristics of third year English major students. Secondly, the study explores the real situations and problems which students have to encounter in learning English vocabulary. Thirdly, the study investigates the student‘s attitudes toward learning vocabulary Finally, the main purpose of this study is to suggest some effective and productive techniques that can be applied and suited for third year English major students-HPU to improve and boost English vocabulary learning, enrich and strengthen their own vocabulary as well as attracts students’ interest as much as possible. Research participants My study research participant aims to third year English major students at HPU who are exposed and study English day by day.
As the first- year and second-year students, they have to study foundation skills such as basic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills to support the specialized center knowledge during the next years. Third year students at English Faculty have to study English for specific purposes in which they mainly learn specialized vocabulary such as economy, translation… Therefore, more than anyone, the interesting methods for this student to learn English vocabulary is extremely necessary to help them master English course after nearly four years at HPU. Research questions The study was an investigation of learning English vocabulary (lexical resource). It aimed to reveal the real situation of their vocabulary learning 3 techniques.