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PART A. INTRODUCTION

1. Rationale for the Research

2. Aims of the Research

3. Scope of the Research

4. Signification of the Research

5. Design of the Research

PART B. DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER I. LITERATURE REVIEW

1. An overview of vocabulary

1.1. Definition of vocabulary

1.2. The Roles of Vocabulary in Language Learning and Teaching

2. An Overview of Young Learners

2.1. Definition of Young Learners

2.2. Nature of Young Learners

CHAPTER II. METHODOLOGY

1. Data collection methods

2. Data collection procedure

3. Data analysis methods

CHAPTER III. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

1. Summary of findings

2. Limitations of the study

3. Recommendations for further studies

Appendices

appendix 1. Questionnaire for the teachers

appendix 2. Questionnaire for the young learners

appendix 3. Interview questions for the teachers and the young learners

appendix 4. Interview for the teachers

appendix 5. Interview for the young learners (Vietnamese version)

appendix 6. Interview for the young learners (English version)

appendix 7. Data collected from the questionnaire for teachers

appendix 8. Data collected from the questionnaire for the young learners

appendix 9. Students' book

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES TRƯƠNG HƯƠNG LAN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE YOUNG LEARNERS THROUGH MIMING: A STUDY AT HI! LANGUAGE SCHOOL CENTER (NGHIÊN CỨU DẠY TỪ VỰNG CHO TRẺ EM THÔNG QUA ĐIỆU BỘ TẠI TRUNG TÂM TIẾNG ANH HI! LANGUAGE SCHOOL) Minor M. thesis Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 601410 Hanoi - 2012 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES TRƯƠNG HƯƠNG LAN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE YOUNG LEARNERS THROUGH MIMING: A STUDY AT HI! LANGUAGE SCHOOL CENTER (NGHIÊN CỨU DẠY TỪ VỰNG CHO TRẺ EM THÔNG QUA ĐIỆU BỘ TẠI TRUNG TÂM TIẾNG ANH HI! LANGUAGE SCHOOL) Minor M. thesis Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 601410 Supervisor: Phạm Thị Thanh Thủy, M. Hanoi - 2012 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 1 Reasons for using miming in teaching vocabulary to young learners Table 2 The benefits of using miming in teaching vocabulary for the teachers at Hi! Language School Center Table 3 When do the teachers use miming to teach a word? Table 4 The learners‟ understanding the word meaning through miming Table 5 Difficulties in applying miming in teaching vocabulary Figure 1 The teachers‟ keenness on miming in teaching vocabulary to the young learners Figure 2 Usefulness of miming in teaching vocabulary to the young learners Figure 3 Importance of using miming in teaching vocabulary to the young learners Figure 4 Necessity of using miming in teaching vocabulary to the young learners Figure 5 The young learners‟ interest in miming in learning vocabulary Figure 6 The young learners‟ attitudes towards usefulness of miming in learning vocabulary Figure 7 The young learners‟ interest in miming in comparison with that of some other techniques for teaching vocabulary Figure 8 The benefits of miming in the children‟s learning vocabulary Figure 9 Situation of using miming in teaching Figure 10 Situation of using miming in learning Figure 11 Frequency of using miming in teaching vocabulary Figure 12 Stages at which miming is often adopted Figure 13 Time for using miming in teaching vocabulary Figure 14 Word classes used in miming to teach vocabulary Figure 15 Class organizations when vocabulary is taught via miming Figure 16 Preparation for teaching vocabulary through miming Figure 17 Ways of checking the young learners‟ understanding of the vocabulary the teachers mime. Figure 18 The young learners‟ participation in the miming activities iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Figure 19 The teachers‟ using the other teaching aids in miming Figure 20 The teacher‟s combining miming with the other techniques Figure 21 The teachers‟ feeling pleased with the results from using miming in teaching vocabulary v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TERMS YL young learner YLs young learners TESOL teaching English as a second language HLSC Hi! Language School Center VNU Vietnam National University ULIS University of Languages and International Studies vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENT PAGE DECLARATION . iii LIST OF FIGURES TABLES AND FIGURES . iv LIST OF TERMS…………………………………………………………….vi PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale for the Research . Aims of the Research . Scope of the Research . Signification of the Research . Design of the Research. 3 PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. An Overview of Vocabulary . Definition of Vocabulary . The Roles of Vocabulary in Language Learning and Teaching . An Overview of Young Learners . Definition of Young Learners. Nature of Young Learners . An Overview of Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners . 8 vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Principles of Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners .1 Criteria for selection of vocabulary .2 What to teach? . Techniques of Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners .1 Techniques of presenting vocabulary .2 Techniques of checking and consolidating vocabulary . An overview of miming.1 Definition of Miming.2 The Roles of Miming in Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners . 14 CHAPTER II: METHODOLOGY 1. Data collection methods . Data collection procedure . Data analysis methods . 19 CHAPTER III: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 1. Summary of findings . 34 viii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Limitations of the study . Recommendations for further studies . I Appendix 1: Questionnaire for the teachers . I Appendix 2: Questionnaire for the young learners . VII Appendix 3: Interview questions for the teachers and the young learners . V Appendix 4: Interview for the teachers . XI Appendix 5: Interview for the young learners (Vietnamese version) . XIII Appendix6: Interview for the young learners (English version) . XIV Appendix 7: Data collected from the questionnaire for teachers . XV Appendix 8: Data collected from the questionnaire for the young learners . XXI Appendix9: Students‟ book . XXI ix LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Research Title: Teaching vocabulary to young learners through miming: A study at Hi! Language School Center 2. Rationale for the Research In Vietnam, English has become more and more essential in every part of life so far. The need of learning English comes from different purposes including communicating with foreigners, promoting to higher positions at work, exchanging cultures with the English speaking countries, or simply entertaining, and so on. That the parents send their children of early age to the international schools or English centers is a popular trend currently. The reason for this might be because they want their children to get a basis of English and chances of communicating with the foreigners when they are very young. At Hi! Language School Center (HLSC), this trend is seen clearly. The children start learning English at the youngest age of six. Unlike the classes for adults which often focus on many different aspects of language such as grammar, phonetics…, the classes for children put emphasis on providing them with vocabulary. The fact is that vocabulary plays an important role in teaching and learning language, the basis for the language learners to move up the higher level of English. However, for such young children, it is difficult to use verbal techniques to teach them the meaning of the words. Moreover, their concentration on the teachers‟ speaking in the class is often interrupted easily. Especially, all the teachers teaching the young learners here are native English speakers and know few Vietnamese words. How can those teachers deal with the challenges above? Of those techniques in classrooms such as role-play, miming, singing songs, storytelling, games… miming is the technique which the teachers use quite frequently. Many researches show that it is easy and effective to introduce and consolidate the vocabulary and increase the children‟s motivation. It is a help for the teachers to get the shy learners into the class activity. Does miming affect teaching and learning vocabulary in the same way at HLSC? What do the teachers and learners there think about miming? What do they apply miming in teaching 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com vocabulary? How do they apply it? Do any difficulties exist? All the questions above urge the author to the study “Teaching vocabulary to the young learners through miming: A study at Hi! Language School Center. Aims of the Research This study aims at: - providing English language teachers a specific understanding about miming as well as when and how miming can be applied in context. - investigating the Hi! Language School Center teachers and the young learners‟ attitudes towards miming in teaching and learning English vocabulary. - figuring out the current situation of teaching vocabulary through miming to young learners at Hi! Language School Center; and - finding out the difficulties in teaching vocabulary to young learners through miming to young learners at Hi! Language School Center 4. Research Questions The following questions were made to achieve the aims above: Research question 1: What are the attitudes of the teachers and the young learners (aged from 6 to 8) at Hi! Language School Center towards miming in teaching and learning English vocabulary? Research question 2: What is the current situation of teaching vocabulary to the young learners (aged from 6 to 8) at Hi! Language School Center? Research question 3: What are the difficulties the teachers at Hi! Language School Center often cope with when teaching vocabulary through miming to the young learners (aged from 6 to 8)? 5. Scope of the Research This study puts emphasis on using miming in teaching and learning vocabulary at HLSC. The age range of young learners at Hi! Language School Center varies from five to twelve. However, due to the limited time and small scale of the research, the author only investigated the participants‟ age range between six and eight. Only thirty-eight children from three classes and six foreign teachers took part in the study. 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Signification of the Research Many issues are looked into in this study: the attitude of the teachers and the young learners, the current situation of miming in teaching at HLSC as well as some difficulties when the teachers adopt it. Therefore, the author hopes this research will be able to improve the teaching and learning quality of the young learners in terms of vocabulary at the center of Hi! Language School. It could also be the recommendations for the enhancing primary English education in Vietnam and the other parts of the world. Design of the Research There are three main parts in this study, namely Introduction, Development and Conclusion. The introduction begins with the rationale, aims, research questions, scopes, signification, and the design of the study. In the part of Development, chapter I, Literature Review, presents the theory background on which the study based including overview of vocabulary, overview of young learners, overview of teaching vocabulary to young learners, and overview of miming. The second chapter provides the methodology including settings, participants, data collection methods, data collection procedure, data analysis methods. The findings and discussion is the next chapter which deals with three research questions. The last part includes the summary of the findings, implications, limitations and recommendations for further studies. 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. An overview of vocabulary 1.1 Definition of vocabulary “Like so many other things that are basic and elemental in our lives, we take them for granted and we are apt to be surprised to find how hard it is to say what exactly a word is” (Quirk, 1974:128). Those words show the importance as well as the difficulty of linguists in giving the precise definitions for vocabulary. However, some different definitions of vocabulary have been found. Some linguists define vocabulary as separate words. According to Lyons, “a word may be defined as the union of a particular grammatical employment” (1974:200). Moreover, Hunt and David Beglar in “Current Research and Practice in teaching Vocabulary” (2000) emphasized that a word includes the base form and its inflections and derivatives. Nation (1990:3) stated that “Knowing a word involves not only knowing its meaning(s) but also its forms and its usage”. These notions, though differ in expressions, share the same idea that a single word may consist of different aspects. Besides, vocabulary is also defined as lexical chunks. Vocabulary, from Ur‟s viewpoint (1996:60), is “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 multiword idioms”. Dowling (2003) mentioned words as Lexis. Therefore, seeing words that come in phrases, groups or words that combine together, which then means looking at areas of vocabulary as fixed, and semi- phrases, idioms, and collocations. In brief, it can be concluded that vocabulary, whether it is an individual word or more than one word items, refers to all the words that a language possesses.

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