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1Research questions
According to the purposes of this survey,
three questions are explored as follows.
(1)What English vocabulary teaching strategies
do the teachers often use in Hainan rural middle school?
(2)What is the current situation of English
vocabulary learning in Hainan rural middle school?
(3) What are problems on English vocabulary
teaching and English vocabulary learning in Hainan rural middle school?
3.2 Research Participants
In this research, in term of teacher, the
author chooses all of English teachers who teach English in Dingan Pinghe
Siyuan Middle School as the research participants. All of teachers teaching in
different grades, of which two teachers from Grade Seven, three teachers from
Grade Eight and three teachers from Grade Nine. Six English teachers are female
and only two English teachers are male. In term of students, the author takes
one hundred and fifty-five students in total as research participants, of which
all of students from Grade Eight. One hundred and fifty-five questionnaires are
given out to those students at that school. Because five questionnaires are
invalid questionnaires that the questionnaire returning rate reaches 97%.
Therefore, all of eight teachers stand for
the local teachers and the entire one hundred and fifty-five students from
Grade Eight stand for the local students in the aspect of the English
vocabulary teaching situation and English vocabulary learning situation. In a
degree, the research is representative and universality. Thus, the survey
mainly reflects the basic situation of English vocabulary teaching strategy in
Hainan rural middle schools.
3.3 Research Instruments
The author applies two research instruments
in this survey, which are the questionnaires and interview.
3.3.1Questionnaires
Base on previous studies on vocabulary
teaching, the surveys at home and the surveys abroad, the author designs two
questionnaires in the sight of the teachers and the students. The questionnaire
is divided into two parts, one part reflects the basic information of the participants
and another part is the questionnaire body.
Concerning the teacher questionnaire, it
includes basic teaching situation and the situation of English vocabulary
teaching strategy. There are some multiple-choice questions and subjective items
in teacher questionnaire. The design of questionnaire refers to the
questionnaire in "An
investigation into the current English vocabulary teaching at Senior High
School" written by Hong Ying in
2007. In the second part about vocabulary teaching strategy, it shows six
common vocabulary teaching strategies, of which be proposed by Hu Ningwen
(2009) on Vocational Technology in
Fujian. These six strategies are pronunciation-spelling strategy, word-formation
strategy, semantic strategy, context strategy, communication strategy and
dictionary strategy.
As for student questionnaire, there are ten
multiple-choices about the student’s learning attitude, cognitive factor and learning
experience in vocabulary learning. The design of student questionnaire base on
the theory of Robert Faith about the influence factors in learning and refer to
the survey in "A
survey on the English Vocabulary Teaching in Middle School and the Reform of college
English Vocabulary Teaching "by
Fan Zhenhui, Qin Junyan and Jiang Guihong. Therefore, in a degree, the
questionnaires show the basic situation of vocabulary teaching and learning in
Hainan rural middle school.