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Declaration

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Table of contents

1. PART A: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Aims of the study

1.2. Scope of the study

1.3. Significance of the study

1.4. Design of the study

2. PART B: DEVELOPMENT

2.1. CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1.1. Teaching vocabulary in context

2.1.2. Definition of context

2.1.3. Context and vocabulary teaching & learning

2.1.4. Guessing and inferencing strategy

2.1.5. Advantages and disadvantages of context in vocabulary teaching and learning. Dialogues as a context for teaching vocabulary

2.1.6. Types of dialogue

2.1.7. Grammar-demonstration dialogue

2.1.8. Conversation-facilitation dialogue

2.1.9. Features of dialogue

2.1.10. Objective features and situational features

2.1.11. Stages of teaching dialogues

2.1.12. Production Stage

2.2. CHAPTER II: ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING CONTEXT AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY

2.2.1. Students and their background

2.2.2. Teachers and teaching methods

2.2.3. Material and facilities

2.2.4. Remarks on dialogues in the course book

2.3. CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY

2.3.1. Rationale for the use of an action research

2.3.2. Action research procedure

2.3.3. Background of the study

2.3.4. Data collection instruments

2.3.5. Data collection procedure

2.4. CHAPTER IV: DATA ANALYSIS

2.4.1. The result of the pre-test and post-test

2.4.2. The result of group interview

2.4.3. Students‟ opinions of the effect of using dialogues to learn vocabulary

2.4.4. Preference of activities and exercises related to dialogue

3. PART C: CONCLUSION

3.1. Limitation and suggestions for the further studies

REFERENCES

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2

APPENDIX 3

APPENDIX 4

APPENDIX 5

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VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY-HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES -----  ----- VŨ THU TRANG USING DIALOGUES TO TEACH VOCABULARY FOR THE SECOND-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY SỬ DỤNG ĐOẠN HỘI THOẠI ĐỂ DẠY TỪ VỰNG CHO SINH VIÊN KHÔNG CHUYÊN TIẾNG ANH NĂM THỨ HAI CỦA TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC CÔNG NGHIỆP HÀ NỘI M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field : English Teaching Methodology Code : 60. 10 Hanoi – 2013 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY-HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES -----  ----- VŨ THU TRANG USING DIALOGUES TO TEACH VOCABULARY FOR THE SECOND-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY SỬ DỤNG ĐOẠN HỘI THOẠI ĐỂ DẠY TỪ VỰNG CHO SINH VIÊN KHÔNG CHUYÊN TIẾNG ANH NĂM THỨ HAI CỦA TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC CÔNG NGHIỆP HÀ NỘI M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field : English Teaching Methodology Code : 60. 10 Supervisor : CẤN THỊ CHANG DUYÊN, MA Hanoi – 2013 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration i Acknowledgements ii Abstract iii Table of contents vi PART A: INTRODUCTION 1 1. Aims of the study 2 3. Scope of the study 3 6. Significance of the study 3 7. Design of the study 3 PART B: DEVELOPMENT 4 CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 4 1. Teaching vocabulary in context 4 1. Definition of context 4 1. Context and vocabulary teaching & learning 5 1. Guessing and inferencing strategy 6 1. Advantages and disadvantages of context in vocabulary teaching and 11 learning. Dialogues as a context for teaching vocabulary 12 2. Types of dialogue 12 2. Grammar-demonstration dialogue 13 2. Conversation-facilitation dialogue 13 iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Features of dialogue 14 2. Objective features and situational features 15 2. Stages of teaching dialogues 16 2. Production Stage 24 CHAPTER II: ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING CONTEXT 26 AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY 2. Students and their background 26 2. Teachers and teaching methods 27 2. Material and facilities 27 2. Remarks on dialogues in the course book 28 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY 29 3. Rationale for the use of an action research 29 3. Action research procedure 30 3. Background of the study 32 3. Data collection instruments 33 3. Data collection procedure 34 CHAPTER IV: DATA ANALYSIS 36 v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. The result of the pre-test and post-test 36 4. The result of group interview 37 4. Students‟ opinions of the effect of using dialogues to learn vocabulary 37 4. Preference of activities and exercises related to dialogue 37 PART C: CONCLUSION 38 1. Limitation and suggestions for the further studies 40 REFERENCES 42 APPENDIX 1 I APPENDIX 2 V APPENDIX 3 XI APPENDIX 4 XII APPENDIX 5 XIV vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. RATIONALE Hammer (1991) states “If language structure makes up the skeleton of language, then it is vocabulary that provides the vital organs and flesh”. It is clearly seen from this statement that vocabulary is central to language and is of great significance in language learning. In the past, the importance of vocabulary teaching and learning was generally neglected for a long time, yet in recent years, the nature of vocabulary and its role in learning and teaching has been an increasingly interesting topic of discussion for researches, teachers, curriculum designers, theorists and others involved in second language learning. Accordingly, numerous research studies related to this topic have been carried out. It comes to a conclusion based on the research findings that “Through research the scholars are finding that lexical problems frequently interfere with communication; communication breaks down when people do not use the right words ". This highlights the significance of vocabulary in classroom teaching, for without vocabulary it is hardly possible to communicate. When teaching the second-year students at Hanoi University of Industry, the writer finds out that vocabulary learning is a big problem to the students. For young learners, perhaps it is less difficult to learn vocabulary items for the first time than to consolidate and remember them. We often hear young learners complain that they keep learning and forgetting. When English language young learners are acquiring new vocabulary, they need concrete methods to collect, store, and retrieve words for retention and future use. Therefore, it is necessary to find out effective methods to help young learners retain new words in long-term memory. According to Oxford and Crookall (1988), learning words in context is an effective vocabulary learning strategy and a main approach to improve vocabulary knowledge. This has urged the researcher to carry out this action research. 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. AIMS OF THE STUDY The study is aimed at:  Examining the feasibility of using dialogues to teach vocabulary for the second- year non-English major students in Hanoi University of Industry.  Measuring the effectiveness of this vocabulary teaching technique on students‟ vocabulary acquisition. Hopefully, based on the results of the study, the research aims to offer English teachers some suggestions for the better use of dialogues in their classes. RESEARCH QUESTION The research was to seek answers to the following question: 1. What is the students’ attitude toward learning vocabulary through dialogues? 2. “To what extent does using dialogues to teach vocabulary affect students’ vocabulary acquisition?” 4. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY To obtain the aims mentioned above, an action research is chosen for the study. In this action research, pre-test and post-test are designed and used as data collection instruments. The pre-test was exploited to gain the overview about student‟s vocabulary level before the study. The post-test was administered to the students after four weeks in which dialogues were applied to help students learn vocabulary to measure the impact or effectiveness of this technique on students‟ vocabulary acquisition. Collected scores were then processed and analyzed by T-test Paired Sample. In addition, a group interview was conducts to get more in-depth data. 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. SCOPE OF THE STUDY It is impossible to cover every aspect of language theory and practice in this study. Therefore, the study focuses on using dialogues to teach vocabulary for the second-year non-English major students in Hanoi University of Industry. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY The results of this action research will help the author to improve her approaches to vocabulary teaching. Those results can also be helpful to other teachers in the university or in other universities which have the same problems (vocabulary teaching & learning) with the university where this research was conducted. DESIGN OF THE STUDY The research includes three main parts: Part A, Part B and Part C. Part A: Introduction presents the rationale, the aims of the study, the research question, the method of the study, the scope of the study, the significance of the study and the design of the study. Part B: Development consists of four chapters:  Chapter 1: literature review  Chapter 2: English teaching and learning context at Hanoi University of Industry  Chapter 3: methodology  Chapter 4: data analysis and discussion Part C: Conclusion provides summary of major findings, implication, as well as presents limitation and suggestion for further study. 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Teaching vocabulary in context 1. Definition of context Context is an important concept. Therefore, there have been many different definitions about context. The word “context” comes from Latin words “co”, which means “together” and “text”, which means words, sentences. Thus we can define that “context is the circumstance in which the word is used”. In other words, it is the relationship between a word and other words around it. In the light of linguistics, David Nunan (1993:7) points out in his book that “context refers to the situation giving rise to the discourse and within which the discourse is embedded”. Another as noted by Nguyen Hoa (2000: 39), “context seems to be the minimal stretch of language that helps to understand what is written and spoken”. In the light of human communication, Hymes (1974) views contexts as a limiter of the range of possible interpretations, and, on the other hand, a supporter of the intended interpretation. Context can be seen as information and in turn, information is that which reduces uncertainly. In this study, context is defined as a particular linguistic environment where a particular word is used and interpreted semantically and pragmatically. In other words, in linguistics, context carries tremendous importance in disambiguation of meanings as well as in understanding the actual meaning of words. Consequently, if learners cannot contextualize new words, the words are of little value and if meaning is not contextualized, it will be not easy for learners to memorize in addition to use new words 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. As a result, using context to teach vocabulary is considered as one of effective vocabulary teaching technique. Context and vocabulary teaching & learning Learning vocabulary is an important factor in fluent second language (L2) speech. Researchers have tried to find effective ways of teaching L2 vocabulary to L2 learners. Different methods like glosses, mnemonic devices, and morphological and syntactic analyses are some examples of the attempts of second language teaching researchers to find practical ways of teaching L2 vocabulary (Min, 2008). From among all the proposed methods, contextualization has received special attention. Webb (2007) points to the fact that different aspects of a word like its semantic relationships, syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations, and even its collocational behavior can be learned through context. It is believed that context can have a positive effect on vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners. Researchers like Engelbert and Theuerkauf (1999) refer to the positive effect of context on vocabulary learning reported in the literature. Corrigan (2007) too claims that seeing vocabulary items in the context provides learners with information about the characteristic features of that word and the linguistic context in which that specific word occurs. Gardner (2007) argues that many words in English have multiple meanings which are context-dependent. When one tries to teach those words isolated from context, they lose their meanings and become vague. In the work namely “The book of Learning and Forgetting”, Frank Smith asserts “Teaching one word at a time out of context is the worst way of teaching vocabulary, with rapid forgetting almost guaranteed.” In his opinion, people assimilate new words from context the first time they read them, “provided that gist of the material being read is both interesting and comprehensible. Within five more encounters, the word and its conventional meaning are usually firmly established in the mind of the reader.” 5 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com One principle of effective vocabulary learning is to provide multiple exposures to a word‟s meaning. This is gre at improvement in vocabulary when students encounter vocabulary words often (National Reading Panel. As stated by Stahl(2005), students probably have to see a word more than once to put it firmly in their long-term memories. In other words, it is essential that vocabulary instruction provide students with opportunities to encounter words repeatedly and in more than one context. Teaching vocabulary in context is probably the most useful technique, because it gets students to work out the meaning of words for themselves. Kruse (1979) made some suggestions for teaching vocabulary in context: 1. Word elements such as prefixes, suffixes and roots: recognizing component parts of words, words families is of great value because it is one of the most significant vocabulary skills the students may need. It also decreases the number of new words they will encounter and increases their control of the English lexicon. Pictures, diagrams, charts: students may relate the illustration with the item that is difficult to understand.

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