VIETNAM NATIONAL URTVERSITY, HANOL UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES LE THI LAN APPLYING METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES IN LEARNING VOCABULARY FOR IN-SERVICE STUDENTS AT TIANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY: AN ACTION RESEARCH (Một nghiên cứu cải tiễn về việc áp dụng các thú thuật siêu nhận thức trong việc học từ vựng của sinh viên Tại chức trường. Đại học Ngoại Ngữ - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội) M. Minor Programme Thesis Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60 14 10 Cohort: MA 16 HANOI, 2010 'VIETNAM NATIGNAIT. UXTVERSITY, HANOL UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES LE ‘THI LAN APPLYING METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES IN LEARNING VOCABULARY FOR IN-SERVICE STUDENTS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY: AN ACTION RESEARCH (Một nghiên cứu cải tiễn về việc áp đụng các thủ thuật siêu nhận thức trong việc học từ vựng của sinh viên Tại chức trường Đại học Ngoại Ngữ - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội) M.
Minor Programme Thesis Field: English Teaching Methadology Code: 60 14 10 Cohort: MA 16 Supervisor: Phan Thi Van Quyén, MA HANOI, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS RETENTION AND USE OF THE THESIS. TABLE OF CONTENTS. LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES. Backgroundta the study.
Aims of the study. Scope of the study L4, Methods of the study. Organization of the study PART I: DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: Literature Review 4. Definition of vocabulary.
LL2, Vocabutary classifications LL2. The role of vocabulary learning.4 Factars gecine vocabilary learting. Individual and social factors. Vocabulary learning strategies (VL) .2, Vovatudary learning strategies D8.
Metacognitive learning strategies. grammatical knowledge is offen firstly focused. In other words, little attention has been given to vocabulary tcaching so far. In Vietnam, ‘handicapped? voeabulary is the torr that should be used to deseribe current situation of leaming, Students are just provided with words’ meanings rather than be explained the usage ot be trained how to lear effectively.
This a fact (hat in spile of the efforts in learning new vocabulary items such as using Nash cards, notebook, referring to bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, giving some synonyms and antonyms to decipher the meaning of wards, vocabulary is by far the most sivable and wonanageable component far language Tsarners, The amswer to the problem of vocabulary is applying vocabulary learning stralggies in their learning process to make them become independent and gain active positions in learning the vocabulary knowledge. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the issue of vocabulary strategy learning by applying metacognitive strategies. Tt aims at exploring what lics behind this phcnomenon and cxamines the effsctiveness of application, 2. Aims of the study The purpose of this study is to cxamine the cfifvets of metacognitive strategies on by students’ vocabulary acquisition, then help them to save the time and effort in ther vocatnlary leaning process.
The study aims at finding answers to the two questions + What arc the most and Icast ficquently used metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies by in-service English students? = How do motacognitiv strategies help studamts take progress in their voeabulary acquisition? L3. Scope of the study To investigale the vocabulary learning stratogics employed lo tear new words, the study focuses on in-service English students who do not have much time invested in learning and find out ways that could help improve their vocainlary learning ‘This study aims at training metacognitive learning strategies in vocabulary learning for in-service English students at Hanoi Universily of Languages aud International studies, Vietnam National University in Vinh Yen province. All learners have finished three years studying at college with English as a major. Currently, they are teachers-learners who are working as teachers of Linglish at different high schools in Vinh Yen and spending their weekend pursuing hig! qualification The course book is NEW ITEADWAY Intermediate level which is supposed to be completed aiter ten weeks, The focuses are on Vocabulary, Grammar and other skills are mostly studied at home by students.
The concept of metacognitive assessment is relatively new and complicated to approach although in recent decades there have been efforts to develop suitable measuring instruments. The repertoire of metacognitive skills has been shown to be among the factors explaining the differences between good and poor readers. Metacognitive assessment is not an ardition lo teaching and learning, bul il is inlegraled in the two, informing and guiding them. Metacognitive knowledge is tiequently refined into person, task, and strategy variables, or declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge (Brown, 1980), However, mnekacoysr lation which is tho focus of this study is togarded as the implementation of phaming, monitoring and evaluating, L4.
Meihads of the study An action rescarch wes spplicd to this current study with the leacher as a researcher, With an aim to support the research with varied and valid data, the quanbitative approach was used with two questionnaires and two written tests before and after doing the action rescarch. The first questionnaire was done before the traning te identify the students* employment of metacognitive strategies in their vocabulary learning, The second one was distributed immediately after the training to see how students changed their VLS application. The effect of the metacognilive stralegy instruction on studsnls’ language acquisition was accessed by the results of the pre- and post-vocabulary tests, The tests were designed with the purpose of exploring the effects of metacognitive strategies on students’ progress in vocalnlary-learning after training. Therefore, the data collected ftom the fesl-resulls was computed, analyzed, and reported.
grammatical knowledge is offen firstly focused. In other words, little attention has been given to vocabulary tcaching so far. In Vietnam, ‘handicapped? voeabulary is the torr that should be used to deseribe current situation of leaming, Students are just provided with words’ meanings rather than be explained the usage ot be trained how to lear effectively. This a fact (hat in spile of the efforts in learning new vocabulary items such as using Nash cards, notebook, referring to bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, giving some synonyms and antonyms to decipher the meaning of wards, vocabulary is by far the most sivable and wonanageable component far language Tsarners, The amswer to the problem of vocabulary is applying vocabulary learning stralggies in their learning process to make them become independent and gain active positions in learning the vocabulary knowledge.
The purpose of this study is to shed light on the issue of vocabulary strategy learning by applying metacognitive strategies. Tt aims at exploring what lics behind this phcnomenon and cxamines the effsctiveness of application, 2. Aims of the study The purpose of this study is to cxamine the cfifvets of metacognitive strategies on by students’ vocabulary acquisition, then help them to save the time and effort in ther vocatnlary leaning process. The study aims at finding answers to the two questions + What arc the most and Icast ficquently used metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies by in-service English students? = How do motacognitiv strategies help studamts take progress in their voeabulary acquisition? L3.
Scope of the study To investigale the vocabulary learning stratogics employed lo tear new words, the study focuses on in-service English students who do not have much time invested in learning and find out ways that could help improve their vocainlary learning ‘This study aims at training metacognitive learning strategies in vocabulary learning for in-service English students at Hanoi Universily of Languages aud International studies, Vietnam National University in Vinh Yen province. All learners have finished three years studying at college with English as a major. Currently, they are teachers-learners who are working as teachers of Linglish at different high schools in Vinh Yen and spending their weekend pursuing hig! qualification The course book is NEW ITEADWAY Intermediate level which is supposed to be completed aiter ten weeks, The focuses are on Vocabulary, Grammar and other skills are mostly studied at home by students. The concept of metacognitive assessment is relatively new and complicated to approach although in recent decades there have been efforts to develop suitable measuring instruments.
The repertoire of metacognitive skills has been shown to be among the factors explaining the differences between good and poor readers. Metacognitive assessment is not an ardition lo teaching and learning, bul il is inlegraled in the two, informing and guiding them. Metacognitive knowledge is tiequently refined into person, task, and strategy variables, or declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge (Brown, 1980), However, mnekacoysr lation which is tho focus of this study is togarded as the implementation of phaming, monitoring and evaluating, L4. Meihads of the study An action rescarch wes spplicd to this current study with the leacher as a researcher, With an aim to support the research with varied and valid data, the quanbitative approach was used with two questionnaires and two written tests before and after doing the action rescarch.
The first questionnaire was done before the traning te identify the students* employment of metacognitive strategies in their vocabulary learning, The second one was distributed immediately after the training to see how students changed their VLS application. The effect of the metacognilive stralegy instruction on studsnls’ language acquisition was accessed by the results of the pre- and post-vocabulary tests, The tests were designed with the purpose of exploring the effects of metacognitive strategies on students’ progress in vocalnlary-learning after training. Therefore, the data collected ftom the fesl-resulls was computed, analyzed, and reported. grammatical knowledge is offen firstly focused.
In other words, little attention has been given to vocabulary tcaching so far. In Vietnam, ‘handicapped? voeabulary is the torr that should be used to deseribe current situation of leaming, Students are just provided with words’ meanings rather than be explained the usage ot be trained how to lear effectively. This a fact (hat in spile of the efforts in learning new vocabulary items such as using Nash cards, notebook, referring to bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, giving some synonyms and antonyms to decipher the meaning of wards, vocabulary is by far the most sivable and wonanageable component far language Tsarners, The amswer to the problem of vocabulary is applying vocabulary learning stralggies in their learning process to make them become independent and gain active positions in learning the vocabulary knowledge. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the issue of vocabulary strategy learning by applying metacognitive strategies.
Tt aims at exploring what lics behind this phcnomenon and cxamines the effsctiveness of application, 2. Aims of the study The purpose of this study is to cxamine the cfifvets of metacognitive strategies on by students’ vocabulary acquisition, then help them to save the time and effort in ther vocatnlary leaning process. The study aims at finding answers to the two questions + What arc the most and Icast ficquently used metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies by in-service English students? = How do motacognitiv strategies help studamts take progress in their voeabulary acquisition? L3. Scope of the study To investigale the vocabulary learning stratogics employed lo tear new words, the study focuses on in-service English students who do not have much time invested in learning and find out ways that could help improve their vocainlary learning ‘This study aims at training metacognitive learning strategies in vocabulary learning for in-service English students at Hanoi Universily of Languages aud International studies, Vietnam National University in Vinh Yen province.
All learners have finished three years studying at college with English as a major. Currently, they are teachers-learners who are IILI. Implications for English teachers TL3. Recommendations for further stud; REFERENCES APPENDIX 1: PRE-TRAINING QUESTIONNAIRI APPENDIX 2: PRE-TRAINING QUESTIONNAIRE APPENDIX 3: PRE-TEST VOCABULARY.
APPENDIX 4: POST-TEST YOCARULARY. APPENDIX 5: PRE-TEST VOCABULARY ANSWERS KFY. Xv APPENDIX 6: POST-TEST VOCABULARY ANSWERS KEY. XVI LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table Table 1.
Intralexical factors that affect VL. Organization of the questionnaires. Pre-training and post-training questionnaire results. Frequency of use of planning, monitoring and evaluating 40 strategies.
The changes in some metacognitive strategies before and after VLS training 36 Table 3. The pre-test and post-test results.