4. DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURETHE PROCEDURES OF THE STUDY WERE DONE TH...

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2.4. Data collection procedure

The procedures of the study were done through the following steps:

Two intact classes were assigned to the experimental group which received the Explicit

Vocabulary Teaching and the control group receiving the Implicit Vocabulary Teaching.

The control group was instructed by the researcher’s colleague who has the same

considerable concern about how to teach ESP vocabulary effectively, and the experimental

group was instructed by the researcher. Before the treatment, all the participants received a

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vocabulary pre-test to evaluate their vocabulary knowledge before the training. During the

treatment, the experimental group received the Explicit Vocabulary Teaching, while the

control group was instructed under the Implicit Vocabulary Teaching.

In each unit, as usual, students in the control group would be provided with vocabulary

items through the usual method at VTVC, Implicit Vocabulary Teaching. The teacher

instructed them to finish the vocabulary tasks in the contexts.

For the students in experimental group, the same vocabulary items were taught, however

through an explicit approach. The experimental group received explicit instruction on

learning new words through some activities namely: Mind-mapping, English definitions,

Word lists, Guessing the meaning, Matching exercise, and Finding Vietnamese equivalents.

The ESP course for Cookery students lasts three months, teachers and students have to deal

with a twelve-unit course book. However, due to time constraint and other issues, the

research was just conducted in half a course, in one month and a half, so the experimental

students had this “treatment” during six units in this time. Each unit consisting 4 skills,

Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking, was taught within 10 periods of 45 minutes.

However, the research only focused on comparing the effect of two vocabulary teaching

methods (implicit and explicit) which were done through the reading passages in the

textbook.

On the last day of the research, both of the groups which were taught vocabulary in

different vocabulary approaches from different instructors for 6 weeks, were asked to take

an immediate vocabulary knowledge recall posttest consisting of the 40 English words

previously studied which then would be rated by a language teacher to measure their

learning outcomes. The result of the test was also saved for data analysis of the research.