Nghiên cứu hoạt động học từ vựng trong lớp tại trường THCS Đông Sơn I, Thanh Hóa

Luận văn thạc sĩ VNU ULIS nghiên cứu hoạt động học từ vựng tại trường THCS Đông Sơn I, Thanh Hóa, góp phần vào lĩnh vực ngôn ngữ học.

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PART A: INTRODUCTION

A.1. Aims of the study

A.2. Scope of the study

A.3. Method of the study

A.4. Design of the study

1. CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1. Definition of vocabulary

1.2. Classification of vocabulary

1.2.1. According to the concept of morpheme

1.2.2. According to the meaning

1.2.3. According to the function of vocabulary items in a sentence

1.2.4. According to the sequence of use

1.2.5. According to the use of word: Active and Passive vocabulary

1.3. The importance of vocabulary in language teaching and learning

1.4. Aspects of word knowledge to be included in vocabulary teaching

1.5. The most commonly used techniques in vocabulary teaching

1.6. Techniques in presenting vocabulary

1.7. Techniques in practicing new words

1.8. Factors that affect vocabulary acquisition

1.9. Classroom vocabulary learning activities

2. CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

2.1. The context of the study

2.2. The text book

2.3. The teachers of English

2.4. The 10th form students

2.5. Instruments of data collection

2.6. Data collection and analysis

3. CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION

3.1. Data analysis from students’ questionnaires

3.2. Data analysis from teachers’ questionnaires

3.3. Summary of findings

3.4. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study

PART C: CONCLUSION

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Vietnam national university, Hanoi UNIVERSITY OF foreign languages AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES POST-graduate studies ***---*** BÙI THỊ THẢO AN INVESTIGATION INTO CLASSROOM VOCABULARY LEARNING ACTIVITIES AT DONG SON I SECONDARY SCHOOL IN THANH HOA NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ CÁC HOẠT ĐỘNG HỌC TỪ VỰNG TRÊN LỚP TẠI TRƯỜNG THPT ĐÔNG SƠN I, THANH HÓA M.A MINOR THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60.10 Ha Noi, 2010 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Vietnam national university, Hanoi UNIVERSITY OF foreign languages AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES POST-graduate studies ***---*** BÙI THỊ THẢO AN INVESTIGATION INTO CLASSROOM VOCABULARY LEARNING ACTIVITIES AT DONG SON I SECONDARY SCHOOL IN THANH HOA NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ CÁC HOẠT ĐỘNG HỌC TỪ VỰNG TRÊN LỚP TẠI TRƯỜNG THPT ĐÔNG SƠN I, THANH HÓA M.A MINOR THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60.10 Supervisor: Phan Thị Vân Quyên, M.A Ha Noi, 2010 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com iv TABLE OF CONTENTS PART A: INTRODUCTION . Aims of the study . Scope of the study . Method of the study . Design of the study . 4 Chapter I: Literature review . Definition of vocabulary . Classification of vocabulary . According to the concept of morpheme . According to the meaning . According to the function of vocabulary items in a sentence . According to the sequence of use .5 According to the use of word: Active and Passive vocabulary . The importance of vocabulary in language teaching and learning. Aspects of word knowledge to be included in vocabulary teaching . The most commonly used techniques in vocabulary teaching . Techniques in presenting vocabulary . Techniques in practicing new words . Factors that affect vocabulary acquisition . Classroom vocabulary learning activities . 13 Chapter II: Research methodology. The context of the study .1 The text book. The teachers of English. 17 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. The 10th form students . Instruments of data collection . Data collection and analysis . 27 Chapter III: Data analysis and discussion . Data analysis from students’ questionnaires . Data analysis from teachers’ questionnaires . Summary of findings . Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study . III LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 1 PART A INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Vocabulary plays an important role in learning a foreign language. It is one element that links the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing all together. In order to communicate well in a foreign language, students should acquire an adequate number of words and should know how to use them accurately. Even though students realize the importance of vocabulary when learning a language, most Vietnamese students learn vocabulary passively due to several reasons. First, they find the teacher's explanation for the new words‘ meaning, pronunciation, spelling or grammatical functions boring. In processing learning English in the class, language learners have nothing to do in a vocabulary learning section but to listen to their teacher. Second, students only think of vocabulary learning as learning the primary meaning of new words. Therefore, they ignore all other functions of the words. Third, students usually only learn new words in their textbooks or those given by teachers during classroom lessons. For example, learners find many new words in a text and then ask the teacher to explain their meanings and usages. Forth, many Vietnamese learners do not want to take risks in applying what they have learnt. Students may 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. As the result, the class is often quiet and inactive and the lessons appear to be uninteresting. Students just seat in silence, do the exercises, and wait for the correct answers from the teachers. They seem to get bored of having the same ways of learning every day. Therefore, classroom vocabulary learning activities help learners develop and use words in different contexts and make the lessons enjoyable. It can not be denied that, classroom vocabulary learning activities are a well come break from the usual routine of the language class. They help students to make and sustain the effort of learning; provide practice in the various skills, such as speaking, writing, listening and reading; encourage students to communicate. Besides, vocabulary-learning activities bring real world context into the classroom, and stimulate students‘ use of English in a flexible, meaningful and communicative way. That is the reason why I carry out this research entitled, “An investigation into classroom vocabulary learning activities at Dong Son I secondary school in Thanh Hoa” LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Aims of the study The study was designed to achieve the following goals: 1. To find out the English teachers and students‘ perception and attitude towards vocabulary and the current situation of vocabulary learning and teaching 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of the currently used classroom vocabulary learning activities at Dong Son I high school. To suggest how to use classroom vocabulary activities to improve vocabulary teaching and learning 3. Research questions In order to achieve the above-stated goals, the study was to seek answers to the following questions: 1. What are the English teachers and students’ perception and attitude towards vocabulary learning/teaching? 2. How effective are the currently used classroom vocabulary learning activities at Dong Son I High School? 4. Scope of the study There are, of course, many ways to motivate the students to learn English effectively. However, in this minor thesis, I would focus my research on the effectiveness of classroom vocabulary learning activities at Dong Son I secondary school in Thanh Hoa. The reason is that my students are too passive to learn vocabulary. They need to participate more actively in learning activities. I hope that through some classroom vocabulary activities, I will find the most effective learning activities to improve students‘ vocabulary learning. My students have chance to use the words productively. Methods of the study To gain the aims given in section 2, the study uses quantitative research approach. In order to gain the most successful results, data will be collected through questionnaires (one questionnaire for students, and the other for teachers of English at high school). Collected data, then, will be processed and analyzed. Besides, the study is also carried out through informal interview with some students and teachers at Dong Son I secondary school. Additionally, the writer‘s own experience in designing classroom vocabulary learning activities and the analysis of current textbook and vocabulary teaching methods applied to teaching English for the 10th form students at Dong Son I secondary school in Thanh Hoa will contribute much to the evaluation of the effectiveness of these activities. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Design of the study The thesis is composed of three parts. Part A is the introduction, which presents the rationale, aims as well as the scope, method, and the design of the study. Part B is the development of the study, divided into three chapters. Chapter I is for literature review, which provides the theoretical background of the study. The focus of this chapter is the definition, classification, the importance of vocabulary; aspects of word knowledge to be included in vocabulary teaching; techniques in vocabulary teaching; factors that affect vocabulary acquisition and classroom vocabulary learning activities. Chapter II includes the description of the participants and the data collection instruments and the methods employed to analyze these data. Chapter III presents the detailed analyses of the data collected from the survey questionnaires for the teachers and the students and the discussion of the findings. Lastly, part C is the conclusion of the study, the limitation of the research and recommendations for the teaching and learning activities at Dong Son I secondary school in Thanh Hoa. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 4 PART B DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Definition of vocabulary The term ―word‖ appears to be a simple concept but in fact, it is extremely difficult to define. Some linguists define words in terms of semantics or phonology, etc. For instance, Palmer noted that a word is marked, if not by ―spaces‖ or ―pauses‖, at least by some features of the sound system of the language (e. stress and juncture in English). And yet, in rapid spoken English, we sometimes can hardly find stress and juncture, we might say ―whatchangonna do?‖ for what in writing would appear ―what are you going to do?‖ Is ―whatcha‖ one word or three and ―gonna‖ one or two? So, let us, for the time being, accept the following definition which seems to be the most satisfactory: ―A word is a dialectical unity of form and content, independent unit of language to form a sentence by itself, for example ―book, bookish, unlucky, go, eat, lexicology, white-wash, kiss-me- quick‖ and so forth. Vocabulary can be defined, roughly, as the words we teach in the foreign language. According to Harmer, if language structures make up the skeleton of a language, then it is its vocabulary that provides the vital organs and the flesh. A word is a unit of language that native speakers can identify, “words are the block from which sentences are made”. Knowing a word means being able to do thing with it: to recognize it in connected speech or in print, to access its meaning, to pronounce it and to be able to do these things within a fraction of a second. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ―vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of the specific language‖. Meanwhile, Hoang simply defined vocabulary as ―words of a specific language‖ (Hoang, et al. In a more detailed definition, Lewis (1993: 89) states vocabulary ―…may be individual words, or full sentences- institutionalized utterances- that convey fixed social or pragmatic meaning within a given community.‖ In short, vocabulary is the total number of all the words that a language possesses, including single words, two or three-word items expressing a single idea and multi-word idioms of which meaning can not be deduced from the analysis of the component words but only understood in the sentences; or in contexts, etc. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Classification of vocabulary In general, vocabulary can be classified in various ways according to different criteria. Below are the most common ways of classifying vocabulary. According to the concept of morpheme. Based on this criterion, McCathy divides words in to three kinds (1990: 5). Simple word A simple word has only one root morpheme. For example: book, man, happy, eat… Derived word A derived word has a root morpheme and one or more than one affixational morphemes. For example: bookish, booked, unhappy eater… Compound word A compound word has at least two roots with or without affixational morphemes. For example: book worm, man-made, lotus-eater… 2. According to the meaning There are two main kinds of meanings in a word, lexical meaning and grammatical meaning. Vocabulary, therefore, can be divided into notional words and functional words. (Read, 2000:18) Notional words Notional words, whose meanings are lexical, form a great mass of the speaker‘s vocabulary. They name objects, actions, qualities and have meanings in themselves. They are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and so on. Functional words Functional words, whose meanings are grammatical, only have their meanings in relation to other words with which they are used. They are particles, articles, prepositions, etc. According to the function of vocabulary items in a sentence Performing different functions in a sentence, English vocabulary can be divided into different items as parts of speech. They are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and pronouns. Each part of speech has its own position complying with certain grammatical rules and relating to others. According to the sequence of use This criterion refers to the frequency of occurrence of words.

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