Investigating Teachers' Practice of Training Students Vocabulary Learning Strategies at Jeldu Preparatory School Grade 11 Students in Focu

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate teachers' practice of training students vocabulary learning strategies at Jeldut preparatory school Grade 11 students. The study was conducted by using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The researcher used three data gathering instruments to conduct this research. These were questionnaire for students, interview for teachers and observation checklists for both participants of teachers and students. The selected sample students were asked and responded to the questionnaire prepared for them as a major data gathering tool. The teachers were interviewed to give access data. In addition, classroom observation was also employed to gather additional data. Based on this, the finding of this study indicated that more often the English language teachers were not using various strategies during teaching to increase their students' vocabulary. In addition, the students of the mentioned school were ensured that they had shortage of vocabulary to communicate English in appropriate way. The major causes for this were: first, no better practicing students new vocabularies by their English language teachers, second ,less attention and lack of interest that the learners had for vocabulary development ,third, shortage of time for teachers to practice and give corrections and feedback to the students' homework and class work exercise were among them.