1. Rationale of the study
Wilkin (1972: 110) states that “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without
vocabulary nothing can be conveyed”. This means that to be a competent English communicator,
one must acquire a good knowledge of English grammar and have a rich amount of English
vocabulary as well. Vocabulary is an essential element of language. Whether in speaking or
writing, learners need vocabulary to communicate and understand others.
However, for many students at Le Quy Don gifted high school in Dien Bien, learning
vocabulary is really a hard job. As a result, many students often ask their teachers the same
question about how they can learn vocabulary effectively. As a matter of fact, what students are
wondering is also a big question that always bare in the teachers’ mind which urges them try to
find a suitable solution to better facilitate both the teachers’ and students’ vocabulary teaching
and learning process.
The idea of using visual aids to better aid students learn vocabulary has been conducted at
LQD gifted school by many teachers including the researcher and all agree that visual aids are of
great use to aid both the teachers and their students in teaching and learning vocabulary. Many
students admit that they can remember new words more easily by both listening to their teachers
and looking at the visuals. They also get involved to the lesson more actively by guessing the
words’ meaning through the visuals, describing the visuals, asking and answering questions
related to the visuals, etc. Therefore, students gradually retain more words and can better
communicate in the target language. For teachers, many agree that they can reduce their talking
time of explaining new words in stead of introducing words directly through different types of
visual aids.
From what the teachers and students have mentioned about some of benefits of visual
aids, the researcher can partly know about their attitudes towards the use of visual aids in
teaching and learning vocabulary. This inspires the researcher to conduct the study entitled “An
Investigation into Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards the Use of Visual Aids in Teaching
and Learning Vocabulary at Le Quy Don Gifted High School, Dien Bien.” with hope of
understanding more about not only the teachers’ and students’ attitude towards the use of visual
aids but also the overall problems faced by them in teaching and learning vocabulary through
visual aids. Hopefully, this study will be of some values to those who want to improve their
vocabulary teaching, especially by means of visual aids.
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