TETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYEN HANH TUYET AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF VISUAL AIDS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY AT LE QUY DON GIFTED HIGH SCHOOL, DIEN BIEN NGHIÊN CUU THÁI ĐỘ CỦA GIÁO VIÊN VÀ HỌC SINH ĐÓI VỚI VIỆC SỬ DỤNG GIÁO CỤ TRỰC QUAN DE DAY VA HOC TU VUNG Ở TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYEN LE QUY DON — DIEN BIEN M. MINOR THESIS Field: | English Teaching Methodology Code: 601410 Hanoi, 2011 TETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYEN HANH TUYET AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF VISUAL AIDS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY AT LE QUY DON GIFTED HIGH SCHOOL, DIEN BIEN NGHIÊN CUU THÁI ĐỘ CỦA GIÁO VIÊN VÀ HỌC SINH ĐÓI VỚI VIỆC SỬ DỤNG GIÁO CỤ TRỰC QUAN DE DAY VA HOC TU VUNG Ở TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYEN LE QUY DON — DIEN BIEN M. MINOR THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 601410 Supervisor: Nguyễn Thị Vượng, M.A Hanoi, 2011 iii ABSTRACT This study aims al finding out the altitudes of the toachers and students at Le Quy Don gilled high school in Dicn Dien lowards the usc of visual aids in touching and leaning English vocabulary In the study, the quantitative and qualitative methods are employed. The instruments to collect data for the study arc survcy questionnaires and interview.
After gathering and analyzing the collected data, some major findings have been revealed. ‘the first finding is that most of the Icachers and students al LQD gifled ligh school in Diow Bicn have positive attitudes towards the use of visual aids in teaching and learning vocabulary. The seeond finding shows that most of the teachers tend to use different types of visual aids in teaching vooibulary. Neverthe slill restrict Uhemsclves to some visual types only.
Morcover, their ways of oxploiting visual aids to tcach vocabulary is limited. Thcy just mainly focus on using visual aids to present new words. ‘This means that the teachers have not made use of visual aids to their fullest potential to aid their students or arouse their inlcrest in Teaming vocabulary. The third finding is that both the teachers and stadents still encounter certain challenges when using visual aids in teaching and learmang vocabulary.
Tas hopeflf thal this study con be of some lelp to the teachers al. LOD gifted high school and the school itself about ther teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards the use of visual aid in teaching vacabutary or other teachers and schools interested in the subject matter. Aims of the study: The study aims at - Investigating the teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards the use of visual aids in teaching and learning vocabulary. - Exploring the extent to which visual aids have been used in vocabulary teaching and learning - Finding out the possible problems faced by the teachers and students in teaching and learning vocabulary through visual aids 3, Research questions: In order lo achieve the above-sialed goals, the study was carried out to seek answers to the following questions: 1.
What are the teachers” and students’ attitudes towards the use of visual aids in teaching and loarning vocabulary? 2. To whal extent have visual aids beon used in teaching and leaning vocabulary? 3. What are the problems faced by the teachers and students when teaching and learning vocabulary trough visual aids? 4, Scope of the study In fact, there are many different types of visuals that can be used to help the students bollcr loarn vocabulary. However, duc Ip the minar scope of this thesi s, the research only aims at several types of visual aids such as pictures, chalkboards, real objects, mime-facial expressions which are available in class or can be easily made and applied by the teachers.
‘The study has not dealt will stuslents of all tevels but just 11" form students who have been farnitiar with their teachers’ method of teaching voeabulary through visual aids sine they were in grade ten. Methods of the study In the study, dala was coltseted by two methods: survey and intorview. The survey consists of two questionnaies, one for the teachers and the other for the students. Besides, the researcher conducted informal interviews with the teachers in order to supplement the survey questionnaires 6.
Design of the stuity: This studyis divided into threc main parts Part A: INTRODUCTION: In this part the zationale, the aims, the research questions, the soope, the methods and the design of the study are presented. Part B: DEVELPOMENT: This part. consists of three chapters: the “Literature Review”, “Methodology” and “Data Analysis and Discussion” Part C: CONCLUSION: ‘This part offers a summary of the study and some suggestions for firthr sludy. LISTS OF FIGURES AND TARLES List of figures Pages Figure |: Data collectzd from question 1 of the teachers’ questionnaire Figure 2: Teachars’ interest in using visnal aids lo [zach vacubulary Figure 3: Teachers’ evaluation of the visual aids in general Figure 4: Data collected from question 5 of the teachers’ questionnaire Figure 5: Data collected from question 9of the teachers’ questionnaire Figure 6: Data collected from question 12 of the teachers’ questionnaire Figure 7: Studenls’ interast in Icarning vocabulary through visusl aids Figure 8, Students’ evaluation on the usefuulness of visual aids in vocabulary teaching Figure 9: Data collected from question 3 of the students” questionnaire Figure 10: Students” preferences of the sources of te pielures Figure 11: Students’ preference of the sources of real objects Figure 12: Data collected from question 10 of the students’ questionnaire Figure 13: Teachers’ attitudes towards the importance of vocabulary in language teaching Figure 14: Data collected from question 2of the interview for the teachers List of tables Table 1: The teachers’ evaluation of the specific visual aids Table 2: The teachers’ freqnency of visual aids use in teaching vocabulary Table 3: The teachers’ ways of using of visual aids to teach vocabulary aud the frequency of the teachers using these ways to teach vocabulary ‘Table 4: ‘The types of visual aids and their impressions on the students Table $: The Leachers’ frequent sources of gelling visual aids Table 6: The teachers’ reasons for using visual aids in teaching vocabulary Table 7: ‘The challenges faced by Lenchers when using visual aids to teach vocabulary Table 8: Thestudents evaluation of visual aids in facilitating, dueir vocabulary learning Table 9: The students’ evaluation on their teachers’ frequency of using visual aids to vi teach vocabulary Table 10: ‘The reasons for the students’ interest in learning vacabulary through visual aids 31 Table 11 The reasons for the students’ de-motivation in leaning vocabulary 32 through visual aids Table 12: ‘The problems faced by the students when learning vacahulary through visual aids 33 Table 13.
Teachers’ favorite ways of teaching vocabulary 34 1. Wall pictures and wall g]raTÉS. Word flash cards. Picture fash cards.4, Benefits of using visual aids to teach Vooabulary.
Subjcels of the study. The teachers’ questionnaize. The sludonts* questionnaire 2. The interview for the teachers.
CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION. Resnlts frorn the su vay questiGnunaires 3. Results fiom the teachers’ survey questionnaire.2, Resulls from the students’ survey questionmaire 3.2, Results fiom the interviews for the teachers. Findings and discussion PART C: CONCLUSION.
che nhớ Hưng ha de 4.1, Summary of the sftuẩy,. Limitations and suggestions for farther study REFERENCES.ccccccesesssesseseesienssnssvssteerenseen sees VIII 1 PART A: INTRODUCTION 1, Rationale of the study Wilkin (1972: 110) states that “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed”. This means that io be a competent English communicalar, one nmst acquire a good knowledge of English grammar and bave a rich amount of English vocabulary as well. Vocabulary is an essential element of language.
Whether in speaking or writing, learners nezd vocabulary lo communicate and understand others. However, tor many students at Le Quy Don gifted high school in Dien Bien, learning vocabulary is really a hard job. As a result, many students often ask their teachers the same question about how they can learn vocabulary effectively. As a matter of fact, what students are wondering is also a big question that always bare in the teachers’ mind which urges them try to find a suitable solution fo better facilitate both the teachers’ and students’ vocabulary teaching and learning process.
The idea of’ using visual aids to better aid students learn vocabulary has been conducted at LQD gifted school by many teachers inoluding the researcher and all agree that visual aids are of gical use to aid both the tcachers ard their students in tcaching and learning vocabulary. Many students admit that they can remember new words more easily by both listening to their teachers and looking at the visuals. ‘They also get involved to the lesson more actively by guessing the words’ mmeaning tiuongh ihe visuals, deseribing the visuals, asking and answering questions related to the visuals, etc. Therefore, students gradually retain more words and can better communicate in the target language.
For teachers, many agree that they can reduce their talking time of explaining new words in stead of introducing words directly through different types of visual aids. From whal the teachers and students Ive mentioned aboul some of benefits of visual aids, the researcher can partly know about their attitudes towards the use of visual aids in teaching and learning vocabulary. This inspires the researcher to conduct the study enfitled “an investigation into Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards the Use of Visual Aids in Teaching and Learning Vocabulary at Te Quy Don Gifted High School, Dien Bien.” with hope of understanding more about not only the teachers’ and students’ attitude towards the use of visual aids tut also the overall problems faced by them in teaching and tearning vocabulary through visual aids. Hopefully, this study will be of some values to those who want to improve their vocabulary teaching, especially by means of visual aids.
vi teach vocabulary Table 10: ‘The reasons for the students’ interest in learning vacabulary through visual aids 31 Table 11 The reasons for the students’ de-motivation in leaning vocabulary 32 through visual aids Table 12: ‘The problems faced by the students when learning vacahulary through visual aids 33 Table 13.