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IJELC ISSN: 2360-7831 |
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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 8(2), pp. 45-53, March, 2020 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2020.030
Review paper
Assessing EFL Teachers' Vocabulary Teaching Strategies Vis-À-Vis Their Students' Preferences: The Case of Shewarobit General Secondary and Preparatory School Grade Eleven Students
1Desta Behailu Kinfe and 2Haile Kassahun
1(MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, TEFL) 2Bewuket (PhD, Associate professor in teaching English as a Foreign Language, TEFL), Debre Markos University, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature.
Accepted 16 March 2020
The purpose of this study was to assess EFL teachers’ vocabulary teaching strategies vis-à-vis their students' preferences at Shewarobit Preparatory School. A descriptive research design with mixed approach of data gathering and analysis were used. Three English languages teachers were included for observation and interview by using comprehensive sampling technique. To gather quantitative data, questionnaires consisting of two parts were used. Questionnaire was administered to 78 randomly selected students. The data from students’ questionnaire were analyzed quantitatively in descriptive statistics using percentage and mean value. On the other hand data from classroom observations and teachers’ interview were analyzed qualitatively by thematic analysis. Findings of the study revealed that EFL teachers teach vocabulary in EFL classes but they did not employ different vocabulary teaching strategies. English language teachers mainly gave emphasis on definition and synonym vocabulary teaching strategies than other kinds of strategies in their vocabulary teaching. Students prefer to learn vocabulary frequently with definition and synonym strategies than other kinds of strategies. The finding of this research showed that there was a strong correlation between the practice of EFL teachers’ vocabulary teaching strategies and students’ preference. Since foreign language learning is mainly the result of acquiring sufficient amount of targeted language vocabulary, EFL teachers should always practice different strategies while they teach vocabulary to their students.
Key Words: Communicative Language Teaching, English as a Foreign Language, Vocabulary Self- Collection Strategy and Vocabulary Teaching Strategy
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