The document discusses the effect of inadequate vocabulary on English communication among Grade 7 students at Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. It finds that students have insufficient vocabularies because they do not complete educational standards, do not read much, and do not pay attention to words. This results in ineffective communication as students cannot participate well in class, acquire word meanings, or express their thoughts and feelings. The study concludes vocabulary is central to learning but respondents have inadequate vocabularies. It recommends strategies like encouraging wide reading, teaching specific words and learning strategies, promoting interest in language, and teaching dictionary use to address the problem.
The document discusses the effect of inadequate vocabulary on English communication among Grade 7 students at Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. It finds that students have insufficient vocabularies because they do not complete educational standards, do not read much, and do not pay attention to words. This results in ineffective communication as students cannot participate well in class, acquire word meanings, or express their thoughts and feelings. The study concludes vocabulary is central to learning but respondents have inadequate vocabularies. It recommends strategies like encouraging wide reading, teaching specific words and learning strategies, promoting interest in language, and teaching dictionary use to address the problem.
The document discusses the effect of inadequate vocabulary on English communication among Grade 7 students at Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. It finds that students have insufficient vocabularies because they do not complete educational standards, do not read much, and do not pay attention to words. This results in ineffective communication as students cannot participate well in class, acquire word meanings, or express their thoughts and feelings. The study concludes vocabulary is central to learning but respondents have inadequate vocabularies. It recommends strategies like encouraging wide reading, teaching specific words and learning strategies, promoting interest in language, and teaching dictionary use to address the problem.
The document discusses the effect of inadequate vocabulary on English communication among Grade 7 students at Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. It finds that students have insufficient vocabularies because they do not complete educational standards, do not read much, and do not pay attention to words. This results in ineffective communication as students cannot participate well in class, acquire word meanings, or express their thoughts and feelings. The study concludes vocabulary is central to learning but respondents have inadequate vocabularies. It recommends strategies like encouraging wide reading, teaching specific words and learning strategies, promoting interest in language, and teaching dictionary use to address the problem.
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“THE EFFECT OF LACK OF VOCABULARY IN ENGLISH COMMUNICATION”
Southeastern College of Padada, Inc.
Padada, Davao del Sur
Submitted by Corbita, Lynie Aredidon, Almaris Gacita, Mara Clara L. Galia, Leah Joy Gumaran, Liwanag, Macasaet, Mahilum,
Submitted to Ms. Lady Lou I. Lepasana
October 16, 2019
The Effect of Inadequacy of Vocabulary Problem/Issue about Language: in English Communication
Specific location: Southeastern College of Padada Inc.
Affected Participants (Respondents): Grade 7
Introduction
Vocabulary is fundamental to English communication. One cannot understand
the context without knowing what most of the words mean. It helps to know how to use language, where to use each word and when to use it in a correct manner. As we can get to know how to frame sentences, how to use words in dialogues while speaking to others. It is intimately connected to effective listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and these skills in turn are necessary for doing well in school. Through the data we gathered the most common reasons that the students in Grade 7 High School of Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. our main respondent in our study has an insufficient vocabularies for most of the reasons are not completing the educational school standards, does not read much or has a reading problem and does pay attention to words. Thus, resulting to ineffective communication. The purpose of this study is to present the effect of inadequacy of vocabulary in English communication. And the strategies and exercises into Grade 7 students of Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. as a way to boost vocabulary learning communicative competence and to adopt suitable speaking skills in a certain situation in communication. It also examine the reasons behind the student’s poor communication skills and to come up with a solution to the problem. This research, we aimed to find out difficulties and problems in inadequacy of vocabulary in English Communication; to improve communication skills of students and to provide suggestions for improvement This study shall highlight and focus on the causes and the negative effects of such difficulties and problems of inadequacy of vocabularies and tries to find suitable solution in every cases.
The importance of the study as the title refers it investigates the problems of inadequacy of vocabulary that the students faced. It also offers recommendations for expanding the students vocabulary based on the results obtained from this study. That enable the students to develop a wide of range of skills including speaking, writing, reading and listening as well. It also help the students enhance their communication skills and enrich their vocabulary in order to communicate well precisely and proficiently.
II
This study, we researched the problems in inadequacy of vocabulary that face
to the Grade 7 students of Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. It aims to seek opinions on the extent to which inadequacy of vocabulary has influenced on performance in listening, reading comprehension and conversation classes and expressing ideas and feelings, especially in composition, and academic debate classes. To carry out the objectives of this research paper. The study of this research most of the individual showed that the majority of the students surveyed had the problem of short of vocabulary which in turn had a negative effect on their performance of language skills. According to Nyikos and Fansmastering (2010) vocabulary is one of the most challenging tasks that any learner faces while acquiring another language. We interviewed one of the Grade 7 student that has weak in expressive and oral vocabulary (refers to express themselves and the combination of listening and speaking vocabularies). He stated that, he has lack of confidence in expressing answers because he is weak in the use of words and afraid to be criticized and to be laughed by others. Thus, the effect of this, the learners can’t participate in the class well, and can’t acquire the meaning of words because of hesitation. Students will fall behind and lost, found it difficult to express their thoughts and feelings and has a negative impact on academic performance. According to Mckay and McKay (2012) argue that having enough vocabulary gives learners the ability to express themselves precisely and be explicit instead of vague. Another respondent from Grade 7 answered our survey with this question, “Why do some students have limited, inadequate vocabulary compared to other classmates?” She stated, “because of limited exposure to books, it leads to become a reluctant reader.” In this case of language learning, poorest readers have the weakest vocabulary. They need to educate with the strategies to help the learners acquiring the meaning of words. Learning vocabulary from the context is effective to poor readers. Lawrence et al (2010) suggests that vocabulary instruction in schools, the teaching team needs to select vocabulary words to teach, ensure that these words are repeated and that students are well-exposed to their usage, encourage students experiment with the use of these words and teach them word learning strategies. From the research, we know that vocabulary supports effective communication, reading development and increases comprehension. Students with low vocabulary tend to have low comprehension and students with high vocabulary tend to have high comprehension scores.
Conclusion
In this case, the findings revealed that participants in Grade 7 High School in Southeastern College of Padada, Inc. experienced slow vocabulary development and are less able to comprehend due to not paying attention to words. The study shows that vocabulary is central to English language teaching and learning. We can conclude that our respondents in Grade 7 have inadequate vocabulary and lack of vocabulary knowledge is an obstacle to learning. The study showed that vocabulary was significant in helping students understand the meaning of words. In this particular group of respondents, the researchers suggests that several strategies are especially valuable for students, including know the meaning of basic words, and providing sufficient review and reinforcement. Finally, we discuss challenges in designing effective vocabulary instruction for the students. Important issues are determining which words to teach, taking into account the large deficits in second‐language vocabulary of students, and working with the limited time that is typically available for direct instruction in vocabulary. SOLUTIONS FOR THE PROMLEM/ISSUE:
A. Encourage Wide Reading. Use “instructional” Read-Aloud events.
B. Teaching Specific Words to support understanding words and word- learning strategies that students can use every day. C. Promoting a keen awareness in a deep interest in language and to motivate and engage students in learning new word. D. Teach the effective, efficient, realistic use of dictionaries and other reference work. Reflection
