VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES
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DƯƠNG THU TRANG
SUPPORTING YOUNG LEARNERS’ VOCABULARY THROUGH
PICTURES: AN ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH
(Hỗ trợ việc học từ vựng của học sinh bằng tranh ảnh)
M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS
Field: English Teaching Methodology
Code: 8140231.01
HANOI - 2019
VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES
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DƯƠNG THU TRANG
SUPPORTING YOUNG LEARNERS’ VOCABULARY THROUGH
PICTURES: AN ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH
(Hỗ trợ việc học từ vựng của học sinh bằng tranh ảnh)
M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS
Field: English Teaching Methodology
Code: 8140231.01
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Lê Văn Canh
HANOI - 2019
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DECLARATION
I hereby make an oath that this thesis is my own work and it has not been
submitted anywhere for any award.
Hanoi, July 2019
Dương Thu Trang
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to express my gratitude to all people who gave a hand with
giving me the chances to complete this thesis.
First of all, I would like to show my deep appriciation to my supervisor, Prof.
Lê Văn Canh for his worth advice, careful instruction and endless encouragement
during my time of conducting this thesis.
Secondly, it is my lecturers in the Faculty of Post – graduate Studies, the
University of Foreign Languages and International Studies that gave me various
beneficial lecturers motivating me to investigate my own teaching situation to reach
a more professional level.
Thirdly, I would like to send my thanks to all the teachers and students at the
chosen English center in hanoi for being willing to join my research for eight
weeks.
Finally, my family and friends are the people I would like to show my
genuine appriciation. Without their support and encouragement, I could not have
completed this thesis due to daily life routine.
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ABSTRACT
Vocabulary is one the most important elements in English acquisition.
Without words, human cannot express their ideas, feelings or thoughts. In the
chosen English center in Hanoi, teaching and learning is paid attention to with a
view to improve the students‟ English acquisition and one of the major concern here
is vocabulary teaching and learning through images of young learners. To explore
how images support young learners‟ vocabulary acquisition, the study was carried
out among forty 2th grade students for eight weeks with six units in their books.
They were divided equally into two groups and each one was taught in two different
ways of vocabulary teaching: one with traditional method – the translation method
while the other by using pictures. The classroom observations and tests were
instruments to collect the data for the research. After the treatment time, the results
showed that the experimental group gained higher scores by using pictures to learn
vocabulary and the classroom atmosphere was vey comfortable and ludic while the
control group obtained not as good results as the experimental one. It can be
inferred from the results that images make a greater dedication to enhancing not
only young learners‟ vocabulary acquisition but also their motivation in English
learning than not using them.