IMPROVING VOCABULARY FOR ESL LEARNERS THROUGH LISTENING TO BBC CHANNEL: AN EXPERIMENT AT A UNIVERSITY IN SOUTHEAST VIETNAM

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The primary goal of this study was to investigate how listening to English news on the BBC program impacts the vocabulary acquisition of students learning English as a foreign language at a university in central Vietnam. Sixty-nine students participated in the study: 35 were assigned to the experimental group, and 34 were assigned to the control group. Both groups completed a pre-test. Subsequently, the experimental group was instructed to regularly listen to English news to enhance their vocabulary. Additionally, participants completed tasks related to the English news they had heard. Pre- and post-test data were collected over ten weeks. A 10-statement questionnaire was developed to evaluate participants' attitudes towards applying BBC news in teaching vocabulary. The mean of the test results for the experimental group increased by 3.5, while the control group's increased by only 1.1. The research results showed that, compared to the control group, the experimental group's vocabulary growth was significantly higher. This showed that listening to BBC English news enhances students’ vocabulary.