INVESTIGATION INTO THE MOTIVATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LEARNING VOCABULARY USING GAMES IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSON

Tóm tắt

Vietnamese students usually feel bored in vocabulary lessons and they
think of learning a list of new words with meanings in their language without any real
context practice. Working this way, after a short period of time, students may find out that
this does not satisfy them. With the aim to investigate into the students’motivation, a study
was conducted focusing on finding out the motivation of the 10th form students at Phan
Dang Luu High School when learning vocabulary in the pre-stages of a skills lesson with
the use of language games. Asimple questionnaire survey was used to get the information.
The main findings showed that the students’motivation was not very high. More attention
needs to be paid to the choice and organization of games in order to help increase their
motivation in learning vocabulary when using games. The findings would be useful to the
teachers of English concerned.