Teaching vocabulary explictly to first - year students at Yen Bai medical college

Teaching vocabulary explictly to first - year
students at Yen Bai medical college
Dạy từ vựng cho sinh viên năm thứ nhất bằng
cách cho nghĩa trực tiếp tại trường Cao đẳng Y
tế Yên Bái

Bùi Thị Kim Cúc

University of Languages and International Studies
M.A. Thesis. English Teaching Methodology; Mã số : 60 14 10
Supervisor : M.A. Vũ Mai Trang
Năm bảo vệ: 2012

Abstract. This present study aims at finding out the perceptions of explicit vocabulary
teaching held by a group of three teachers of English working at Yen Bai Medical
College and examining how they teach vocabulary explicitly. The research methods
used in this study included interviews, classroom observations and lessons analyses.
The findings of the research showed that all the respondents have clear perceptions of
the explicit vocabulary teaching and realized its suitability for first-year students of low
English proficiency at YBMC. In classroom practice, they selected some useful and
high-frequency words to teach, however, they focused on the meaning, form of words
but not word use in context. Their explicit vocabulary techniques seemed quite limited
and were not interesting enough to motivate students in vocabulary lessons. However,
these techniques were rather relevant to the conditions of their teaching context. The
study also suggests some pedagogical implications to help teachers understand more
about explicit vocabulary teaching and implement explicit vocabulary techniques more
effectively and successfully.
Keywords. Tiếng Anh; Từ vựng; Phương pháp giảng dạy
Content.
There are three main parts in my thesis as follows:
Part A is the Introduction presenting the rationale, aims, objectives, research

questions, scope, methods and design of the study.
Part B, the Development, includes three chapters:
Chapter 1 is the Literature Review. In this chapter, a basic theoretical background for
the study is created by reviewing the relevant issues related to English vocabulary,
vocabulary teaching and learning focusing on explicit and implicit approaches.
Chapter 2 entitled Methodology is composed of some smaller parts: a description of
the current situation of English teaching and learning at YBMC, the participants, the
instruments and the procedures of data collection as well as data analysis employed to
reach the aims of the research.
Chapter 3 is the Results and Discussions which presents, analyzes and discusses the
findings that the researcher found out from the data collected by means of interviews,
class observations and lessons analyses.
Part C, the Conclusion gives the summary of the study, states some limitations of the
study, draws pedagogical implications of explicit vocabulary teaching and offers
suggestions for further studies as well.
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