Difficulties encourtered by the 9th form students in learning English vocabulary at Chu Văn An secondary school

Difficulties encourtered by the 9th form students in learning English vocabulary at Chu Văn An secondary school Vocabulary plays a very important role in learning and teaching English. Vocabulary, however, is really a big challenge to every student, especially students at Chu Văn An secondary school.

MINOR THESIS

Difficulties encourtered by the 9 th form

students in learning English vocabulary at Chu

Văn An secondary school

By: Lê Thị Mai

Field: English Language Teaching Methodology Course: K21

Supervisor: Dương Thị Nụ, Ph

Part 3 Conclusion

Part 2 Development

Part 1

Introduction

Chapter 4 Findings and solutions

Chapter 2 Methodology

Chapter 1

Literature review

Chapter 3 Data analysis and

discussion

RATIONALE

AIMS OF THE STUDY

- Finding out the factors that cause difficulties for the

9th form students in learning English vocabulary at Chu Văn An secondary school

- Giving some suggestions to reduce students’

difficulties to help them study vocabulary more

effectively

1 What are the factors causing difficulties for the 9thform students’ learning of English vocabulary at Chu Văn An secondary school?

2 What solutions should be suggested to help the students learn English vocabulary better?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

- The study was carried out with the 9th form students at Chu Văn An secondary school, Thanh Hóa

- The findings and suggested solutions are also provide to improve the students’ English vocabulary learning at Chu Văn An secondary school

- An overview of vocabulary

- Vocabulary learning

- Factors affecting vocabulary learning

- Previous work review

PART B: DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

- Data collection instruments: Survey

questionnaire, informal interview and classroom- observation

Students’ level of English vocabulary

CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS DISCUSSION

Students’ attitudes towards learning new words

Students’ difficulties in learning new words

Students’ time for learning new words

Ways of learning new words

Options Number of

students PercentageWriting words in English many times 94 72,3% Reading words many times 11 8,5% Learning words through textual context 4 3,1% Learning words through listening 5 3,8% Learning words through word formation 8 6,2% Learning words through communication 0 0%

Teachers’ ways to present new words

Other factors External factors

Internal factors

CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND SOLUTIONS

INTERNAL FACTORS

- Lack of motivation

- Ineffective ways of learning vocabulary

- Age of the learners

- The English learning environment

EXTERNAL FACTORS

- Vocabulary learning task

- Lack of time

- Lack of teaching aids and reference materials

OTHER FACTORS

- Intralexical factors

- Encouraging students’ self- study

- Helping students realize that success in learning depends much on their own efforts.

Encouraging students’ self- study

- Helping students understand the nature of vocabulary learning process

- Playing an important role as a source of help to give them homework and feedback

- Learning vocabulary through communication

Providing students with different vocabulary learning strategies

- Learning vocabulary through listening

- Learning vocabulary by guessing from context

- Learning vocabulary through word formation

- Learning vocabulary by using bilingual dictionary

- Basing on characteristic of different groups of students to

use and change appropriate teaching techniques.

Improving various techniques in teaching vocabulary

- Using effectively visual aids, gestures, facial expressions…, especially word games to motivate students’ English learning

- Creating more exercises with different forms and levels of difficulty

PART C: CONCLUSION

- Recapitulation of the study

- Conclusions

- Limitations of the study

- Suggestions for further research