ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES

PROPOSAL TITLE
Factors Affecting students’ Vocabulary in English Classes:
The case Of Shanto primary School Grade Eight Student

By Eyeru Markos
• Chapter one
• 1. Background of the study
• “Without grammar very little can be conveyed but without
vocabulary nothing can be conveyed” (Henrikson,
( 2004).vocabulary has been playing a crucial part in
foreign language learning, and it of a great importance to
the language learning Students awareness of the
importance of vocabulary is apparently due to the fact
their overall language competence has much to do with
vocabulary. Vocabulary is the basic factor in
communication with other people.
• The four skill of language learning i.e. listening, speaking,
writing and reading are strongly influenced by vocabulary
knowledge some times, listing and writing task appears
difficult simply because of un similar words. For speaking
skill most texts or spoken English always contain a scale
or rating the vocabulary component.
• Vocabulary is one of the major problems confirming EFL
learners. Because of the weak vocabulary, they cannot
communicate their idea as clearly as they would like to and
they cannot grasp the idea transmitted to them, (MC
Carther, 1990) from the above explanation, one can
understand that for any language learning process
vocabulary play a key role
• . Thus what is more pressing for language learning
learners is the need to most vocabulary.
• 1.2. Statement of the problem
• In the world English language serves as a means of
communication and it is learned the schools, colleges and
university; similarly, in our country it also serves as a mentis of
communication and is learned starting from grade one. Students
who learn vocabulary in English face different problems. These
problems can be solved through learning and teaching process.
• May be responsible this problem. The researcher believes that
one major reasons the level of students proficiency in English is
lack of adequate knowledge vocabulary, lack of students paying
attention to confirm this vocabulary is an essential component for
the successful communication in the second language class
room, while grammar is important a lock of vocabulary may
result in complete failure to convey a message.
• The command of English that students need for effective
communication depends on knowledge of vocabulary. Lack
ofknowledgeof vocabularies hampers effective communication and
because of students may be unable to explain the subject matter
clearly.
• Research has also done in Ethiopia on the sector assenting students
writing skill in English lesson but much of research cannot done on
sector assenting students learning vocabulary in English in
Bethlehem primary school and there is limited knowledge on
problems of students learning vocabulary as English language
problem. Because it is tolerated by students/teachers.
• However the study has filled the knowledge gapes of the previous
studies and is investigated the prevailing situation on sector
assenting student's vocabulary learning in English lesson in shanto
primary school with particular reference to grade eight.
• 1.3 research questions
• what are the strategies of learning vocabulary?
• what are least frequently used strategies used in
vocabulary?
• what are the methods and the instructor use to teach the
meaning of new words?
• 1.3. Objective of the study
• 1.3.1. General objective of the study
• The main objective of the study is to investigate the major
factors that affect the student's vocabulary learning in
English lesson.
• 1.3.2. The specific objectives of the study
• The researcher of this study will try to achieve the
following specific objectives.
• To investigate how often different vocabulary learning
strategies will be used
• To assess the least frequently used vocabulary learning
strategies
• To see the possible techniques or method the instructor
use to teach the meaning of new words.
• 1.4. Significance of the study
• Today one of the most widely spoken languages in the
world is English. It is used as medium of communication in
many parts of the world. For this purpose attention is given
to the mastery of the language .By various sectors of the
world society. Hence, it is an important language that
students need to learn and practice one important area of
language development is vocabulary teaching and learning,
the former in particularly requires different method and
approaches. The siding of this research is hopped to:-
• Help teachers to be aware of the main problems that result
in the hindrance of vocabulary and to improve the ways of
the presenting new words
• Informeducational experts on the weak points and the strong points of
the learning vocabulary in primary school particularly Bethlehem primary
school. This may help the experts to get appropriate strategy to improve
the week points and to capitalize on the strong points.
• To sum up on the students part, this study will make Shanto school
students their personal vocabulary learning and thus asses the
objectiveness other, strategies. On the use as will help teachers better
understand student's approaches to vocabulary learning am! Become
better able to help students develop more effective vocabulary learning
strategies.
• 1.5 Delimitation of the study
• The study is mainly focus on the students of Shanto primary school with
particular reference to grade eight students. The researcher will conduct
this study on Factors Affecting students’ Vocabulary in English Classes.
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• Chapter Three
• 3. Methodology of the study
• This chapter is concerned with the methodology, instruments use to
get accurate data, the population of the study the sample and
sampling technique, source of data collection and method of data
analysis. Therefore qualitative and quantitative will be described.
• 3.1 Population of the study
• The researcher will conduct this study in Shanto primary school
grade eight students.
• The total number of grade eight students in the school concerned is
very large in contrast to the number of teachers. The number of
teachers in the school is easily manageable. Hence all teachers
and grade eight students are the target population.
• 3.2 Sampling method
• Since it is difficult to include all students in collecting data, the researcher will use
simple random sampling method since each and every population in the sample will
have an equal chance for study. The researcher of this study will take 50 students
from the total population which is 690. There are 14 sections each in containing 45 to
50 students; from 14 sections the researcher has take 5 classes. Because of lack of
finance and shortage of time from each class, the researcher will select 10 students,
and the total number of the students is 50. Students will be selected from each class
through random sampling. In order to fill out questionnaires, 8 teacher respondents
will be chosen and questionaries’ will be prepared in accordance. The researcher,
in addition, will prepare and distribute 50 copies of questionnaires to grade eight
students. It is understandable that the student population of Shanto is large.
• 3.3 Data collection techniques
• In this study, the data will be collected by using different data collection methods.
The researcher wiil use both primary and secondary data collection methods. In the
primary, data will be gathered through questionnaires and observation which askes
the students and teachers. In addition, for the sake of getting secondary data, review
of related literature is chiefly used different publications like, Books, hand books,
handouts and internet references.
• 3.3.1 Questionnaires
• Two different questionaries’ will be prepared; questionnaires for the
students and questionnaires for the teachers. The questionnaires for
students are designed to grade eight classes. There are the researcher
of this study tries to reflect the general points that will be discussed in
chapter two in the questionnaire. These questionnaires will be prepared
both as close and open ended questionnaires. The researcher believes
that the questionnaires are easy and understandable.
• 3.3.2 Observation
• To conduct this study, the researcher will observe four classes out of
the 14 classes at Shanto Primary School. The classes will be selected
randomly and each class will be observed twice. The main focuses of
the researcher in this classroom observation is to see how the teachers
teach vocabulary in grade eight classes.
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• 3.4 Methods of data analysis
• After the data collection from the population, the next step
is to employ descriptive statistics; to examine the finding
of the study. The next step is organizing the data and
doing an analysis of it.
• The data will be organized by using charts, tables and
percentages. The researcher will employ both qualitative
and quantitative methods of data analysis.
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