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.
Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ 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, 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 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 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ 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 students actively and positively occupy the knowledge of a subject with this new customs and culture? How they understand the content of the lesson to apply effectively on the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing? To 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 not know to resolve the situation in lesson lead to low scores Moreover, many Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ 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 not remember anymore, or not remember exactly In this grade students should have a certain vocabulary knowledge to 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: Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ -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 ( 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 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 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ 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 – B 1-5 Have, grade, class, floor First draft: Second draft: Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ Third draft: *Note to memorize words: - Whenever learning not learn more than words If the amount of words on that day more than words then divide it into 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: Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ - 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 S pace ( .) used to add new words to fill in the chart 2.3.2 System silhouette Example: Unit 2- C1, 2, The empty silhouette 2.3.3 Table words divided branch was used to fill new words to the system Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ TV Bed Stereo Bedroom Living room Clock Armchair lamp Telephone table Couch Soap towel shower Bathroom hou se Kitchen Table Chair - 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 – A; B Soccer To bed Video games To school Volleyball sports Home To go ✓ ✓ ✓ To play ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ At At seven o’clock At the weekend At christmas …………… In in the morning afternoon evening in August On On Monday/ … On Monday morning afternoon evening Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ in winter / summer / spring / night autumn On June 12th in 1988 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: Verb Noun Adjective Adverb Meaning Deepen Drive Lengthen Play Rain Sing Teach Widen Work Beauty Depth driver Length player Rain singer Teacher Width worker Beautiful Deep Beautifully Deeply Long Longly Rainy Wide Widely Xinh đẹp Sâu tài xế Sâu cầu thủ Mưa ca sỹ giáo viên Rộng rãi 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 / 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 happy ● Poetry about of the human's parts Cái mũi nose Cái đầu head Từ neck cổ Nhìn rõ nhờ eyes Đôi tai ears Từ hair mái tóc Dáng vóc body Ta legs Ta xách hands Khi ăn dùng teeth Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ 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 seasons Summer mùa hạ, mùa đông winter Spring xuân đến nở hoa Mùa thu mát mẻ từ fall Summer hot Winter cảm giác lại cold vô Spring cảm giác warm Fall cảm giác nghe cool ● Poetry about fun activities: Có nhiều hoạt động vui chơi Soccer bóng đá play chữ Xem phim watch TV Music nghe nhạc listen to Câu cá go fishing Còn go jogging ngày Volleyball gắn với play Thì biết chơi bóng chuyền Nhưng mà nhớ help your mom Nghĩa giúp mẹ đừng nên chơi nhiều ● Song (Based on music song "Both family love together") In the morning, I go to school In the afternoon, I play volleyball In the evening, I my homework I go to bed at 10.30 * The effect of this measure: - Students interested in learning vocabulary, especially those who prefer music or literature - Learning vocabulary becomes richer because students can learn words anytime, anywhere Some test vocabulary exercises Parallel with guiding measures of vocabulary learning for student , teachers need to have exercises to test the level of memoring words in oder to promote their learning 10 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ and take measures to support and improve their timely method Here are several types of exercises are often incorporated into the lesson: 3.1 Xếp từ có chủ điểm (Choose the suitable topic) - Teachers make a appropriate table words - Students arrange words according to appropriate topic EX: Soccer chicken cold milk head eggs oranges noodles nose wet rice mouth swimming tennis warm beef ears fish arms meat bananas hands apples carrots basketball soda hot potatoes dry coffee lemonade volleyball legs cool bread table-tennis Food & drink eggs Key: Food & drink -chicken; milk Eggs;oranges Noodles ;rice Beef ;fish Meat ;bananas apples ; carrots soda ;potaotes coffee ; lemonade bread Weather Cold Sports Badminton Body Sports Badminton swimming tennis basketball volleyball table-tennis Soccer Head Weather cold wet warm hot dry cool Body Head nose ears mouth arms hands legs 3.2 Tìm từ khoá (Find the key words) - Teachers make suggestions related to the keyword -Students think and find that keyword volleyball soccer 11 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ swimming tennis Key: Sports 3.3 Write a paragraph: - After a certain unit, the teacher can give exercises require students to write about just learned topics - These exercises can give students to at home - Some of the topics: + Write a paragraph about 80 words describing your home, based on words table that divided by group + Write a paragraph of about 100 words describing people in your family based on tree diagrams that you were stored in the notebook + Write a paragraph of about 100 words describing your school, based on graph silhouette + Writing about food, drinks that you and everyone in your family love (About 80 words) Results of the implementation Before the use of these measures in the process of teaching, quality memorize vocabulary of students is very low The lessons have to practice speaking or writing thematically have little results During the past school year, after applying the guidance of pupils measures such memorizing new words, I noticed many students remember a lot of vocabulary, though the word is not used in a long time The vocabulary of students increased significantly The weak students can use words to speak and write simple sentences The strong students can apply flexiblely vocabulary in sentences or more complex assignments Therefore, the study results are significantly improved Studying result of students in grade school year 2014-2015 achieved as follows: Class Total Good quite medium weak bad 6B 31 15,5% 35,5% 36% 10% 3% semester I semester B 31 18,5% 36,5% 38% 7% II Lessons Learned In the process of teaching, using measures of vocabulary learning truly effective, the teacher should 12 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ - Always close and open for students to grasp the situation of children learning at home, creating emotional teachers and students through the teaching and learning activities Since then attract students of English love more - Prepare lesson carefully and thoroughly, to suit each student audience - Given the specific situation, understandable to inspire students to guess the correct word, contributing to inspire them to learn from - Do not confined corpus and vocabulary within the textbook Depending on the ability of students that teachers can expand the content of the corpus and vocabulary to the extent possible, encourage them to use vocabulary to practice the language - Teachers prepare teaching materials carefully, collecting more pictures from magazines or perhaps simple painting to deeply impress the students, to help them remember the words right in class - Regularly check their English vocabulary learning drafts notebook, timely motivate students to learn words hard 7.Guide for children to play some games (due to the monitor controls ) in checking old lesson hours to help them to learn new vocabulary review 8.Encourage them to buy more books and collect many simple English story to read so as to develop their vocabulary 9.Especially teachers need to seriously carry out professional activities, subjects about English of schools or clusters, unite the focus of the teaching's content and examination in order to close to the program and students Moreover, the teacher should always explore,create good ways , cultivate their teaching skills, improve their professional qualifications in order to bring useful lessons for the students to help them achieve high academic results further C.CONCLUSION These are methods of teaching with practical teaching myself, I found that in the teaching process, teachers try to apply the teaching methods flexibly to suit the content of and suit all pupils simultaneously combined with the pedagogical tricks and personal experiences to stimulate interest in their learning and help them achieve good result Because of the future of our children every teacher in general and myself in particular to bring out the spirit, responsibility, conscience and enthusiasm about work to assist and equip students with the knowledge to build, train them to become good citizens of the country, promote the capacity of their creative thinking, to meet the goals and requirements of today's education in the spirit of the movement, each teacher is a shining example of self-learning, self-practising and creativity Innovation in program content, teaching English to suit current trends in the world and in accordance with the conditions of our country is growing To contribute to the expansion, more enriching for students, I have drawn the experience, measures of 13 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ vocabulary learning is effective for them These are practical measures, consistent with the cognitive characteristics of students, consistent with the educational goals of the new era They can apply their knowledge in everyday life This is a practical method to improve the overall quality of learning for pupils D.RECOMMENDATIONS, PROPOSALS To improve the quality of teaching English efficiently : Schools need interest and meet the demand for facilities such as classrooms functions, connect to the Internet so that students can access to different channels of learning; school library should add reference books and short stories in English For the students, should actively participate in self-studing at home with the orientation and regular testing of teachers, combine with parents in order to promote the best performance for measures Because of the subject of receiving knowledge, after all, is the objects of students Above is my own effort has drawn some small experience to use in teaching Certainly some shortcomingsis are inevitable We wish receive the comments of leaders and colleagues so that the topics can be completed soon and more feasible I sincerely thank! ngày tháng năm 2015 14 [...]... teaching materials carefully, collecting more pictures from magazines or perhaps simple painting to deeply impress the students, to help them remember the words right in class 6 - 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Learned In the process of teaching, using measures of vocabulary learning truly effective, the teacher should 12 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp 6 häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ 1 - Always close and open for students to grasp the situation of children learning at home, creating emotional teachers and students through the teaching and learning activities Since then attract students of English. .. their teaching skills, improve their professional qualifications in order to bring useful lessons for the students to help them achieve high academic results further C.CONCLUSION These are methods of teaching with practical teaching myself, I found that in the teaching process, teachers try to apply the teaching methods flexibly to suit the content of and suit all pupils simultaneously combined with... experiences to stimulate interest in their learning and help them achieve good result Because of the future of our children every teacher in general and myself in particular to bring out the spirit, responsibility, conscience and enthusiasm about work to assist and equip students with the knowledge to build, train them to become good citizens of the country, promote the capacity of their creative thinking, to. .. measures in the process of teaching, quality memorize vocabulary of students is very low The lessons have to practice speaking or writing thematically have little results During the past school year, after applying the guidance of pupils measures such memorizing new words, I noticed many students remember a lot of vocabulary, though the word is not used in a long time The vocabulary of students increased... teaching English efficiently : Schools need interest and meet the demand for facilities such as classrooms functions, connect to the Internet so that students can access to different channels of learning; school library should add reference books and short stories in English For the students, should actively participate in self-studing at home with the orientation and regular testing of teachers, combine... to help them to learn new vocabulary review 8.Encourage them to buy more books and collect many simple English story to read so as to develop their vocabulary 9.Especially teachers need to seriously carry out professional activities, subjects about English of schools or clusters, unite the focus of the teaching's content and examination in order to close to the program and students Moreover, the teacher... (Find the key words) - Teachers make suggestions related to the keyword -Students think and find that keyword volleyball soccer 11 Mét sè biÖn ph¸p gióp häc sinh líp 6 häc thuéc tõ vông TiÕng Anh hiÖu qu¶ swimming tennis Key: Sports 3.3 Write a paragraph: - After a certain unit, the teacher can give exercises require students to write about just learned topics - These exercises can give students to ... 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. .. 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. .. 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