An Assessment of Teaching Vocabulary Strategies Used by English Language Teachers in Agazi Secondary School: Grade Ten in Focus
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2024-07
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this study was to assess the vocabulary teaching strategies used by English language teachers of Agazi Secondary School in Adigrat woreda, eastern Tigray Regional State .In order to address the research questions, a descriptive research design was used. A total of 52 grade ten students were selected purposively and two English language teachers, similarly selected, were involved. Three data-gathering tools namely a questionnaire to the sample students, classroom observation and interview for the sample English language teachers were used to collect data for the study. Frequency and percentage were used to analyze the data gathered from the questionnaire whereas qualitative data analysis was used to analyze the data obtained from classroom observation and interview. Thus, the results from the data revealed that an attempt was made to use various vocabulary teaching strategies to teach words. The English language teachers used the following vocabulary teaching strategies in class; teaching vocabulary through translation, teaching words through context clues and role-playing. However, there were lots of vocabulary teaching strategies like; teaching words through collocation, morphological analysis of the words, loud reading, the etymology of the words, teaching words through association, teaching words through crossword puzzle, videos, word formation and word mapping techniques, using teaching aids, models and real objects, word part’s (affixation) analysis and dictionary were not used by the English language teachers of Agazi Secondary School. Therefore, it is recommended that English language teachers should use or apply different vocabulary teaching strategies in class to teach words in addition to the strategies used in the current grade ten English textbook. And, textbook writers should consider the vocabulary teaching strategies included while designing vocabulary lessons. Higher educational institutions should also help teachers by providing continuous trainings on teaching strategies for vocabularies.
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vocabulary teaching strategies