How to motivate grade 6 students to learn english vocabulary effectively

TRƯỜNG THCS LÊ ĐÌNH KIÊNSÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM TÊN ĐỀ TÀI HOW TO MOTIVATE GRADE 6 STUDENTS TO LEARN ENGLISH VOCABULARY EFFECTIVELY Người thực hiện: Lưu Thị Tâm Chức vụ: Giáo viên Đơn vị c

TRƯỜNG THCS LÊ ĐÌNH KIÊN

SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM

TÊN ĐỀ TÀI HOW TO MOTIVATE GRADE 6 STUDENTS TO LEARN ENGLISH

VOCABULARY EFFECTIVELY

Người thực hiện: Lưu Thị Tâm Chức vụ: Giáo viên

Đơn vị công tác: Trường THCS Lê Đình Kiên

Yên Định – Thanh Hóa

SKKN thuộc lĩnh vực môn: Tiếng Anh

YÊN ĐỊNH NĂM HỌC 2020 – 2021

I INTRODUCTION

1 Rationale of the study

Nowadays, English is becoming more and more universal in the independentworld It is considered as a bridge that links people from different parts of theworld and helps expand international close relations Thanks to English, people cansit together and solve the serious problems happening daily Moreover, we canperceive much of the world’s progress in several fields such as science, technology,commercial, education, health, and etc Therefore, learning and teaching Englishhas become more and more important.Favorable and effective communicationrequires students to have some vocabulary, so learning vocabulary is indispensableindispensable in learning English

Recognize the importance of innovating teaching methods for jobs improvetheir quality and help them perfect their 4 important skills of listening, speaking,reading and writing They not only study grammar well but also apply it to practicecommunication skills with native speakers fluently, listen and exchangeinformation with them about real-life areas of life such as literature chemistry,hobbies, travel, learning The fact shows that in pilot textbook 6 there is a largenumber of new words and vocabulary on a variety of topics So learningvocabulary for children is still difficult, because most of them only memorizeparrots, only a few days later asked to become a new word immediately

I would also like to share some of my experience in teaching and learningvocabulary at school to be highly effective for the new 6th grade English subject atSecondary School

Learning and practicing foreign languages is highly effective when learnersexpress good communication The implementation of that communication depends

on many factors in the process of learning a foreign language that are perfectlistening, speaking, reading and writing skills So teachers and students have todetermine that understanding and using language in foreign languages is very

important, but vocabulary is much more important Also, the vocabulary used inthe sentence must match the context, so it requires students to have anunderstanding of the culture, customs and traditions of that country Thecommunicator will have many disadvantages when using the wrong words, thecontext can lead to unfortunate misunderstandings Conversely, communicatorswill succeed if they use the correct words, even words used in an ornate manner,elaborating in the right context and pleasing the listener.

So how do learners learn vocabulary well and flexibly apply those words totheir listening, speaking, reading and writing skills That is the problem of concernfor everyone who is teaching and learning foreign languages in general, English inparticular It is thanks to the tricks and flexibility of the teacher Realizing that this

issue is important, I chose the topic "How to motivate grade 6 students to learn

English vocabulary effectively.”

2 Aims of the study

With the successful research of the topic, experience initiatives will helpteachers have the following experiences:

- Understand the methods of teaching vocabulary to students

- Methods for teaching vocabulary to grade 6 students

- studying English teaching materials, vocabulary teaching techniques

- Training, teaching and testing

- Attend colleagues' exchange time and learn from experience

- Examining and evaluating the results of grasping students' lessons sothat they can make reasonable adjustments and supplements

- Instruct students to practice on their own to the skill of using Englishvocabulary in the next step

3 Object and scope of the study

The object of the study is the 6th grade students in junior high school

4 Methodology

4.1 Read the topic

To do this topic, I have researched and collected materials related to thetopic, learning from other teachers' experiences As a result, orienting the content

of the topic, understanding the research problem and solving the problem withrelatively accurate materials

c Conversation: Through discussions on difficult issues in English teachingmethods and new vocabulary teaching methods

d Testing: Through student quality testing, teachers make their ownassessments of the effectiveness of using some of the vocabulary teaching methodsand suggest more appropriate solutions

II - Development

1 Theoretical background:

In teaching and learning English, vocabulary is one of the three components

that make up the language knowledge system and acts as a means, condition forforming and developing communication skills In any language, the role ofvocabulary is also very important Can see a language is a collection of vocabulary

It is not possible to understand the language without understanding the vocabulary,

or through the vocabulary units But that does not mean that only understandingthe individual vocabulary units, independently of each other but can only masterthe language through dialectical relationship between vocabulary units Thus,learning vocabulary and practicing vocabulary usage skills are the leading factor in

the transmission and acquisition of a language in general and English in particular.Because vocabulary is a linguistic unit, it is expressed in two forms: verbal andwritten If you want to use that language, you must master the form of verbalexpression of words and words But due to the relationship of vocabulary withother elements in the language (grammar, phonetics, intonation .) or incommunication situations Without a necessary vocabulary, learners cannot usesentence structures and linguistic functions in communication However, theperspectives of teaching and learning vocabulary in English are constantlychanging, leading to a lot of changes in vocabulary teaching and learning methods.Therefore, how to choose teaching methods to promote students' activeness, self-awareness, initiative, creative thinking, self-improvement skills, practical skills,and passion for learning practice and the will to rise up for students is somethingthat all English teachers care about.

2 Actual situation

In English, there are many reference materials that help teachers innovateteaching methods Especially every year, the education and training departmentorganizes professional training courses Helping English teachers to approach anduse new methods effectively

However, due to the fact that teaching and learning English, teachers stillface many difficulties such as:

- Students are not fully aware of the importance of learning vocabulary butonly focus on studying grammar or sentence structure

- Students lack vocabulary, lazy to learn vocabulary, gradually lose basicvocabulary so it directly affects the acquisition of four skills: listening, speaking,reading and writing

- Most of the children are still passive in thinking, the ability to judge themeaning of words is limited

- The children have not yet associated with images in thinking about thesecond language So they are passive when using vocabulary to form completesentences.

Through experience of teaching period: English 6 Section 17 (Unit 3 Acloser look 1) and I have surveyed students in grade 6 (6 minutes) with thefollowing question content: Find the words that indicate the part above Humanbody (Networks) The results are as follows:

Lớp Vocabulary test results when no measures have been applied

Number

of

students

From the above results and through teaching experience, I myself havealways pondered: How students have vocabulary, thereby improving the quality ofteaching English I have found some solutions and the results are quite satisfactory

3 Solutions

3.1 Implementation measures:

In order to have an attractive and attractive teaching period for students,promoting students' active activities, it requires teachers to invest a lot of time,effort, using teaching methods and techniques modern From lesson design topreparation of teaching equipment such as pictures, visual equipment

To teach a vocabulary effectively, it is necessary to ensure the followingsteps:

- Prepare for teachers:

+ Search for documents, images related to the topic, to design lessons Useteaching methods and techniques to promote students' learning activities

+ Regularly making simple visual aids to create excitement in lessons

+ Assign learning tasks, prepare lessons for students before learning newlessons

+ Prepare lesson thoroughly, in detail before going to class

- Prepare for students:

+ Prepare homework before class

+ Find new words at home

+ Practice pronunciation often

+ Attention in class listening to lectures, energetic statements to buildlessons, positive, self-discipline in group and pair activities

+ Collecting many documents, pictures related to lectures with teachers.+ Actively make visual aids when the teacher asks

- Students must be the central character in the lesson Give students the right

to take initiative and develop questions to promote students' intellect Frequentlyuse your new vocabulary So teachers have to think of many game activities ingroups, in pairs so students can participate in better lesson design Depending onthe requirements of each skill, there are appropriate tricks for each lesson Fullyexploit the activities and apply them flexibly but not confined to the framework

3.3 Some principles to teach new words:

- Choose new words by topic: Teachers should choose 5-8 new words toteach, these words must be active vocabulary, which means that the students willuse frequently in class to practice basic skills, especially in practicing speakingand writing skills

- These words need to have a high frequency meaning they appearfrequently in the article

- These terms need to be acquired in the learning process of students atpresent and in the future.

- Avoid boring students, monotonous lessons, teachers do not let studentsrepeat words many times Because does not bring effective learning

3.4 Steps for presenting new vocabulary

1 Use a suitable technique to elect or show the meaning of the newvocabulary

2 Model the pronunciation clearly (twice)

3 Ask students to repeat the word chorally and individually

4 Correct students’ pronunciation

5 Write the words on the board and students 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 ,collocation, frequency etc…

8 Give students a written record

Flash cardVisual aids

ExampleTranslation

3.5- Electing techniques for teaching vocabulary

The picture of body parts (Unit 3 My friends)

The picture of emotions (Unit 3: My friends)

The pictures of places.

Railway station Art gallery

Palace Cathedral

Memorial Square

b Realia

The use of realia , or real-life objects in the ESL classroom can make a huge

difference in student learning It engages them and motivates them to learn It’s fun

and sets a more natural learning environment Some realia you may use to introducenew vocabulary includes:

- Use real things (teacher brings dictionary, caculator, lucky money, sun cream,scissors, plaster,backpack , flash-lamp or group of following different topic such as

- Clothes

- Toy planes, trains, cars, animals, furniture, etc…

- Family photos

-Holiday items (pumpkin, Easter eggs, Halloween or Christmas decorations)

- Plastic fruits and vegetables

shout whisper

d Translation

- Teacher ask students to translate from English to Vietnamese or exchange from Vietnamese into English

+ Translate from English to Vietnamese

E.g: Teacher: A “ destination” What does this mean in English?

Student: “ It means that “ điểm đến” in English

- T ask Ss to translate some words from English to Vietnamese such asdictionary, compass, villa, stilt house, chest of drawer, ceiling fan, creative, neck,cheek, statue, railway station, memorial, temple, art gallery, palace, cathedral,square, suburb etc

+ Translate from Vietnamese into English

- Teacher: How do you say “Điểm đến” in English?

Ex : A destination

- T ask Ss to translate some words from Vietnamese into English such as tốt

bụng, thông minh, chiếc ô, làm vườn, trượt tuyết, bóng bầu dục, quan trọng, cầnthiết, nổi tiếng, điều ước, khóa cửa, đồ uống có ga, gian lận, đồ đạc, nhà sàn, căn

hộ, dao, kéo, gương, etc

Family

Transportations

Food and drink

h The result, the effect brings

With what I share as above and apply in teaching has brought meunexpected results In the 2018-2019 school year, I was in charge of teaching grade

6, I applied innovative methods in teaching attractive new words into the lectureand brought them interesting lessons During the teaching period, I found that thestudents are more hardworking, interested in learning vocabulary and also learningbetter The results achieved after the tests of specific vocabulary knowledge are asfollows:

Number of

students

Vocabulary test results when no measures have been applied

Vocabulary test results after applying the measures

I found the lessons more exciting and lively Students already memorize newwords right in the classroom What is more important is that their vocabularyincreases significantly

In short, the innovation of teaching methods has brought great resultscompared to traditional teaching, especially with English

Finally I want to say that with design experience "Some solutions toimprove the effectiveness of teaching English vocabulary for grade 6.” I share thathope to be of some help to my colleagues

e Scope and effects of the solution

This project is not only applied for students of Secondary School but alsofor other learners of English as a second language

The traditional way of teaching with a teacher-centered teaching methodshows that students are not interested in learning, and the effectiveness is not high.The innovation of student-centered teaching methods has made them moreinterested in learning, more active students, more effective teaching hours, leading

to higher test results In addition, the preparation of vocabulary lessons also helpsstudents actively participate in pair and group activities to promote attention andenthusiasm when practicing listening and speaking English during class hours ofthe students in the classroom, creating more lively hours and attracting morestudents' attention, meeting the "two increases, two decreases" that have a realeffect in improving the quality of education and perfecting student's personality,contributing to comprehensive student development education

III CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

1 Conclusion

Vocabulary plays an important role in the language system Withoutadequate vocabulary, people cannot use words as a means of communication Thecorrect teaching of English vocabulary for junior high school students givesstudents the means to communicate for comprehensive development The richer astudent's vocabulary is, the greater its ability to use it, the more accurate it will beand the more clearly it will communicate

The success of word teaching depends primarily on the atmosphere of thenecessary verbal communication that teachers create in the classroom, and it isimportant for students to adapt to that communication In addition, teachers musthave a method so that all students can memorize vocabulary effectively, providingthem with a variety of learning strategies and stimuli It is possible to use visual,sound and, most importantly, engaging students; There they not only hear, see, butalso perform the movements Finally, teachers need to be realistic about their goalsand expectations of what students can personally encounter and the time they need

to practice, memorize and study Always learning to innovate, making studentssurprised about the ability to renew their teaching style is a great success of