... to answer the four following research questions: What are the problems that thestudents encounter in their independent vocabulary learning? Howdoeslearningthe sub- memorystrategieshelpto ... toimprovestudents'vocabulary retention? How much thestudents obtain thememorystrategies learned in their independent learning? What are thestudents attitudes towards teaching and learning ... teaching vocabularyto her studentstoimprove their vocabularylearning In this thesis, the number of vocabulary employed in the treatment was taken from the book 600 Essential Words for the TOEIC...
... other students important to them or critical to their success in the course They concluded that whilst staff needed to more to encourage such interactions, the question nevertheless needed to ... Lee (2005) found that whilst 94% of the 102 MBA students they surveyed thought interacting with other students enhanced their learning experience, the extent to which they actually desired and engaged ... with others enriches their learning experience This raises the interesting question of whether there are students who are aware of missed learning experiences and are able to find them outside the...
... mother tongues Sometimes learners will be able to imitate the new sound, but if they cannot then the teacher needs to be able to give some hints which may help them to make the new sounds 1 .4. 3 ... It is the teacher's responsibility to develop thelearning process so the learner has the greatest chance to develop thelearningstrategies that are unique to each individual learner The teacher ... For learning outside the class, the teacher should guide students about working with the Internet, searching information and assign them tasks to Then, students know what they have to outside the...
... important in studentslearning 166 4. 14 571 Q45 In order for studentsto learn well, teachers have to give clear explanation about grammar 166 4. 34 666 Q46 In order to learn well, students need to spend ... Accordingly, the responses tothe scale questions were analysed to work out the mean values, and the ones tothe open-ended questions were synthesised to extract the frequency of thelearning activities ... (item #42 , M = 2.11) The unfavourable attitude of thestudents towards uncoordinated learning, to a large extent, led to their negative attitude tothe view that learning should take place in the...
... not using students first language to push them to speak the target language because this helps increase thestudents talking time and limits the interference of the mother tongue in the second ... because they are more familiar with the national curriculum, and the examinations to be taken; therefore, they are better able to equip their students with the necessary strategies and help them ... thestudents have positive attitudes towards the speaking skill and it will be beneficial to their English learning It is expected that the subjects will have positive attitudes towards the learning...
... …………………………………… 45 CHAPTER III: DISCUSSION………………………………………………………… .49 3.1 Teachers’ and students attitudes towards CLT…………………………………… .49 3.2 The influence of teachers’ attitudes on their classroom ... Significance of the study 1.8 Structure of the thesis PART II: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 The main characteristics of the Communicative ... Teachers’ and students attitudes towards CLT………………………………… 19 1.10 Summary………………………………………………………………………….22 CHAPTER II: STUDY…………………………………………………………………………… 23 2.1 The context of the study ………………………………………………………...
... time” However, for the statement 22, there are 43 .4% of them felt uncertain about the difficulty of the teacher in monitoring thestudents performance and in preventing them from using their mother ... activities were the good way to emerge and promote studentsto interact with each other, to explore their problem by themselves and then they could control their learning by themselves This is ... were used to analyze thestudents responses tothe questionnaire The result of thestudents questionnaires was then compared with that of the teachers‟ questionnaire so as to identify the „matches‟...
... of the thesis …………………………………………………………………… …3 PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT …………………………………………………………… .4 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW …………………………………………………… 4 1.1 Writing …………………………………………………………………………………… .4 1.1.1 ... …………………………………………………………… 4 1.1.2 The importance of writing ………………………………………………………… 1.1.3 Approaches to teaching writing …………………………………………………… 1.1.3.1 The product approach …………………………………………………………7 1.1.3.2 The process ... ……………………………………………… 14 1.2 .4 Disadvantages of Project-based Learning ………………………………………… 15 1.2.5 Process of Project-based Work …………………………………………………… 16 1.2.6 Project-based Approach and Other Approaches to Writing...
... project According tothestudents' report, the amount of time they spent was from to hours per week Of the total 25 students, they spent 86 hours a week or 3 .44 hours on average The study was conducted ... member had to write the essay individually at the same time Although in the questionnaire, space is provided for thestudentsto specify their strategies other than the ones listed in the questionnaire, ... up 48 % of the total students said that doing these writing projects was really time consuming They explained that the project took too much of their time either because they were able to reach...
... who is the secretary to write down the ideas from the group members and who is the speaker of the group to make presentation? The teachers should help them 44 know howto present or show their ... more subtopics According to most of thestudents responses, it was important for the teachers to provide thestudents more subtopics than general topics They explained that many topics the teachers ... students feel happy to work together in groups (Oxford, 1997) 2.5.3.3 The number of students teachers assign to a group The number of students in a group No of students % 0 4 4.8 35 42 .2 40 48 .2...
... All the interviewees said that they provided their students with vocabulary and grammar structures related tothe topics first and then they asked their studentsto work in pairs/ groups tothe ... strictly the speaking tasks in the textbook They guided and asked studentsto from the first task tothe last one They did not adapt the tasks or create the new ones During the lesson they asked students ... knowledge to present the topic If the topic is completely unfamiliar the students, they will find it difficult to engage with the task the teacher gives them as they have little knowledge to talk...
... preferences for the feedback they receive to give good responses to their students written work 2.2 The study 2.2.1 Methodology 2.2.1.1 The subjects The subjects involved in the study include 100 students ... feedback to her students When being asked about purpose of giving feedback, all of the teachers said that they wanted tohelpthestudentstoimprove their writing “I want my studentsto have ... that they never or almost never received any feedback from their teachers Chart 3: Students Opinions on Forms of Teachers‟ Feedback 100% 20 80% 18 46 46 60% 48 very helpful 44 40 % 44 a b not helpful...
... of thestudents showed their negative attitudes towards reading tasks because they all accessed that the tasks are generally too difficult for them to Question asked thestudentsto choose the ... 2: The findings showed that PYCI students had positive attitude towards both bottomup and top-down reading tasks They, however, put their positive attitude tothe bottom-up tasks more Thestudents ... findings of the study revealed that most of the participants showed their positive attitude towards both Bottomup and Top-down reading tasks; however, they put their positive attitude tothe Bottom-up...
... are their main learning tools The researcher chose these students as the participants of the study because all of them have been learning English since they were in grade or 4; however, their ... interview The survey questionnaire was delivered tostudentsto collect the data related tothe study This was also the main method used in the study Then, the interviews with some students took place ... of English to develop their students ability to speak English at USSH,VNU but also thestudentstoimprove their attitudes towards learning speaking skills The research questions The study is...
... of students towards learningto speak English and their classroom speaking practices Based on the findings, some suggestions were given tothe teachers tohelp them improve their students speaking ... Significance of the study The result of the study is believed tohelp teachers at NWRC understand more about thestudents attitudes towards learningto speak English and their expectations of the teachers’ ... evaluate their success in language learning as well as the effectiveness of their English course on the basis of how well they feel they have improved in their spoken language proficiency” However,...