Initiatives experience: Some methods to help students in grades 6 to memorize English vocabulary effectively

As a secondary school English teacher, through practical teaching for many years, I am very anxious, think and creatively explore A number of measures to help students in grades 6 to memorize vocabulary efficiency, in order contribute to overcoming these problems, help students increasingly enriching their vocabulary, supporting for the learning of language skills. I would like to send to my colleagues refer to this topic.

A Introductory

Today in the trend of international economic integration English become a very important means that we cannot ignore According to the forecast of analysts, at the end

of this decade 1/3 of the world population will participate in learning English This English learning need regional and global shows that the communication demand by english is more and more increasing to the economic and social development in national reach as well as for individuals in society

Can say that if we consider learning English as building, the vocabulary learning is laying foundations of the house have a solid foundation, the house can be built up English vocabulary learning, too The vocabulary of the students are rich, vivid and abundant, they can easily practice and develop the language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing in the specific situations The foundation of the secondary school level is 6th graders Therefore, they need building a solid "foundation" vocabulary in order to "build" the house of knowledge of the following grades

In recent years, the innovation teaching methods has brought into play many strength points, helps students to work more actively and positively in occupying knowledge However, with particular difficulties in rural areas in the conditions of economic, cultural information exchanges updatedly, a student at my school acquired English necessary vocabulary was hard ,so as to memorize and deeply understand and apply it flexibly in communication situations is more difficult Recite the Vietnamese meaning of the English word That led to a situation they would just memorize vocabulary immediately, do not understand how to use and the type of words so after a certain period of time, their vocabulary decreasing Increasingly, English will become fear for each student

As a secondary school English teacher, through practical teaching for many years,

I am very anxious, think and creatively explore "A number of measures to help students

in grades 6 to memorize vocabulary efficiency", in order contribute to overcoming these problems, help students increasingly enriching their vocabulary, supporting for the learning of language skills I would like to send to my colleagues refer to this topic

B.PROBLEM SOLVING

I Basis of reasoning.

In order to continue to perform effectively one of topic in the academic year 2014

-2015 "Building a friendly school, active students' and teachers whose role is a instructor and help students to comprehend the knowledge, are active in all activities to transform teachers' knowledge into their knowledge So how do students actively and positively occupy the knowledge of a subject with this new customs and culture? How do they understand the content of the lesson to apply effectively on the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing? To do that, we cannot deny the first role is that students should be equipped with a rich vocabulary

However, not everyone also has the way to learn vocabulary effectively contribute

to enrich their vocabulary In order to increase the effectiveness of learning vocabulary (namely memorize and use the vocabulary proficiently) Teachers should encourage students to apply the measures they have known and guide them to learn the new effective measures, easy to remember, save time

Firstly teachers need to have specific orientation in choosing the new necessary word to introduce students These words should be actively trained to help students initially has the impression, for learning by heart the word becomes easier to memorize at home In addition, teachers must continually take measures for checking the language to encourage and promote they use the words they have learned in the most effective way The test must be fieldwork, can imply these words that teachers guide students, even we learned in previous lessons

I Practical basis.

In fact, the teaching of English in the schools is going on with the innovation in methods of education, reforming the textbook, down load content curriculum in order to fit the awareness of students, so that students can access to content, modern knowledge The amount of English words in the the curriculum can also be used consistently with the development of society Besides, the majority of parents concerns and create basic conditions that are convenient for children to learn They are fully equipped with books and school supplies

But besides that they also encounter difficulties in learning English Most of the students live in the remote areas, there is no way to learn vocabulary effectively Their learning way is often reading many times the words just learned Thus, if the time is not

much, the level of learning by heart these words is very limited, especially students who have to enlist the spare time to help parents work home Especially for difficult words, if they are less likely trained when access to this words in another lessions, the students often do not know to resolve the situation in lesson lead to low scores Moreover, many students often forget the words that the teacher introduced at a later time if not practice again Many words has difficult constitution or pronounciation, Similar words can cause the confusion for students or ability to remember is not high Moreover, many parents interested students but not every parent knows about this particular subject, so checking, guiding the children at home met many difficulties

In addition, teaching English in schools also take place in an environment of communication between teachers and students is limited Teaching in a large group (usually unit class has about 30-40 students), the level of awareness in many different levels, the support vehicles of teaching are not very uniform, affecting the students's acquisition of knowledge

After a few test about the vocabulary has been learned show that the level of student's remembering vocabulary is very limited Most of them only remember recently learned words, the words before, they either do not remember anymore, or do not remember exactly

In this grade students should have a certain vocabulary knowledge to do the groundwork for the next study levels But only with the innovation in teaching methods and textbook content knowledge of teachers is not enough They need guiding specific, appropriate and effective measures to obtain the necessary knowledge for themselves

II. Performance measures.

To learn vocabulary effectively depends largely on the preparation of students and teachers, contributing to the first impression for those words Depending on the characteristics of each class Each subject, content and knowledge capacity of lessons that teachers can choose to teach the most appropriate words for each lesson

Preparing vocabulary:

● For teachers:

- Whenever introducing any new words that, to impress and attract the attention

of students, the teachers need to invest time searching for documents, images related to the topic, while constantly updated information to support daily lectures

- Regularly make simple, visual teaching aids to inspire in the lesson

- Prepare carefully, detailedly before class

- Select words appropriately for teaching

● For students:

- Students collect documents and pictures related to the lecture along teachers

- Find new words at home, preview the meaning, kind and the pronunciation of the word

- Regularly practice pronunciation

- Actively, voluntarily practice in pairs, groups teachers when request; attentively enthusiaticly utterance opinions, build lessons

● Principles of teaching new words:

Steps for presenting new vocabulary

1-Use a suitable technique to elecit or show the meaning of the new vocabulary 2-Model the pronunciation clearly ( 3 times )

3-Ask students to repeat the word chorrally and individually

4- Correct students’ s pronunciation

5-Write the words on the board and students’ s copy down on their notebooks

6 Check that students clearly understanding the meaning and pronunciation

7- Draw students’ attention to aspect of vocabulary such as part of speech, callocation, frequency etc…

8-Give students a written record

(May be teacher checks that students write well in their vocabulary notebooks )

Eleciting techniques for teaching vocabulary

2.Measures to learn vocabulary

After they have been acquiring new language through each lesson, students have been practiced a lot with that vocabulary in class through each specific context But to remember these words it depends so much on time in the student's home school Most

of them spend time learning vocabulary at home But not all children have also been learning how to save time most effectively

2.1 Write new words learned many times.

Beginning of the school year, teachers request each student to prepare the necessary books, especially they need to have an English draft notebook and a notebook to store other words In English class, students are often introduced 5-8 words On that day the children need to spend time memorizing the words right If they learn within that day, only about 5-10 minutes that they remember words If the more they leave to the next session, the harder they work and the more forgettable

Way of learning: Write the English vocabulary on the page vertically Write type

of words and meaning of the word Vietnamese side Please read through few turns and then if there are any letters that form this English words Use a thick cardboard cover entire the English words section ; from Vietnamese words meaning to write English After writing out a turn of the English word, to cover the English and Vietnamese words part before, only the English just finished writing From the English there, write its Vietnamese meaning So on until memorize all that Vietnamese meaning, type and writing of the English word

* Example with some vocabulary in Unit 4 – B 1-5.

Have, grade, class, floor

First draft:

Second draft:

Third draft:

*Note to memorize words:

- Whenever learning do not learn more than 8 words If the amount of words on that day more than 8 words then divide it into 2 times to lean

- Learning words both mentally read the word in English

- Must choose quiet study space, most easily focus If a fixed time everyday learning

is noisy, will remembering words will be neglected, more difficult to memorize

- After memorizing these vocabulary, need to empty some white paper The next day

or after a unit or lesson, turn the page and write all the words in accordance with the operations as presented This helps students to practice, review the level of words's mind

If you have forgotten which words or not remember much, please write again as the newly learned words

* The effect of this measure:

- Students can save time studying vocabulary.

- The level of remembering the vocabulary is very high because it is inculcated each time written on paper

- Every time you learn like that, students may learn by heart English, Vietnamese meaning, the type and pronunciation of the word

- After each unit or each topic, students can review a lot words in the same time scientificly

2.2 Write the word on a small piece of paper.

Another quite effective method of learning English words is that students write it, Vietnamese meaning and its usage on a piece of small paper and pin it to somewhere in your house or study corner that is the most visible to repeat every passing it

Example:

* The effect of this measure:

- Students can learn the words on any time, anywhere

- In addition to the Vietnamese meaning, English writing, students can understand the use of the word through a few examples with realistic context for life

- For some words show things around family life, students can paste their piece of paper to the side of things there Thus, when exposed to that things children also recall the English word

2.3 Learning words with diagrams

After memorizing the vocabulary of a topic, students should arrange words systematically in a notebook This means that all words have a relationship with each other in terms of the semantics needs to be sorted into groups according to a certain topic

In this way, when referring to a certain words of the words system which were saved then they may remember words that are related There are many ways to organize and students can also themselves create a more convenient way based on the following:

2.3.1 A tree diagram – Biểu đồ hình cây.

Space ( ) used to add new words to fill in the chart

2.3.2 System silhouette.

Example: Unit 2- C1, 2, 3

The empty silhouette was used to fill new words to the system.

2.3.3 Table words divided branch.

Bedroom

hou se

Living room

TV

lamp

Telephone

shower

- The blank space is used to add words to the system in the other classes

The effect of this measure:

- Students may remember logically, systematicly and scientificly the terms in a certain topic Memorizing new words will inspire more and become easier for you

- Through the word tables, students can form thinking about a certain topic They will have no difficulty in writing assignments such as: Write a paragraph describing the home, school, his family

- The topic, the point is compiled in textbooks in the grade were compiled block style spiral When store new words in this way, they will be easy to add the word in same subject in the higher education sector, very handy for apply vocabulary in activities skills, especially in speaking and writing

 - When you remember one word of the system from above, they also easy to think

of other words related Therefore, remembering word are deeper and richer

2.3.4 Table words combined together:

Example : Unit 5 – A; B

Soccer To bed Video games To school Volleybal

At seven o’clock

At the weekend

At christmas

………

- in the morning afternoon evening

- in August

- in winter / summer / spring / autumn

- in 1988

- On Monday/ …

- On Monday morning afternoon evening night

- On June 12th

The effect of this measure:

- Students can distinguish the use of the words easy to confuse.

- Combination of the new words with grammar knowledge

2.3.5 Table words according to the categories:

Beauty Beautiful Beautifully Xinh đẹp Deepen Depth Deep Deeply Sâu

Drive driver tài xế

Lengthen Length Long Longly Sâu

Play player cầu thủ

Rain Rain Rainy Mưa

Sing singer ca sỹ

Teach Teacher giáo viên

Widen Width Wide Widely Rộng rãi

Work worker công nhân

- - Students can expand their vocabulary more and more abundant in the family words

- If store words according to this table, the student will be easier in solving exercises choose the correct form of the words in brackets

2.4 Sáng tác thơ / bài hát (compose a poem / a song)

● - Teachers compose the words in the same topic in a poem or song

● - Students practice in extracurricular hours or at home:

● Poetry of adjectives:

Tall cao short ngắn long dài Big to small nhỏ thin gầy khoẻ strong

Dày full yếu weak tròn round

Beautiful đẹp vui nào happy

● Poetry about of the human's parts

Cái mũi thì nose Cái đầu là head

Từ neck cái cổ Nhìn rõ nhờ eyes Đôi tai là ears

Từ hair mái tóc Dáng vóc body

Ta đi bằng legs

Ta xách bằng hands Khi ăn dùng teeth

Full lips môi dày

Từ face khuôn mặt Gánh nặng shoulders

Fingers cầm bút.

● Poetry about the season and feeling in that season:

One year có 4 seasons Summer mùa hạ, mùa đông winter Spring xuân đến nở hoa

Mùa thu mát mẻ đó là từ fall

Summer hot lắm ai ơi Winter cảm giác lại cold vô cùng Spring cảm giác thì warm Fall thì cảm giác nghe cool cực kỳ.

● Poetry about fun activities:

Có nhiều hoạt động vui chơi

Soccer bóng đá play chữ gì

Xem phim thì watch TV

Music nghe nhạc listen to đi cùng

Câu cá thì go fishing Còn ai đi bộ go jogging cả ngày

Volleyball gắn với play

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