Uzbekistan state world languages university second english faculty

Questionnaire for students

1. 
   Repetition is the best way to remember words
   
2. 
   It is only necessary to remember one dictionary definition
   
3. 
   I can acquire a large vocabulary by memory of individual words
   
4. 
   I revise the new words I have learned
   
5. 
   I use the words that I have learned
   
6. 
   When I learned the word I pay close attention to its new usage and new meaning
   
7. 
   When I have learned the word, I will recall the meaning to help me understand the context
   
8. 
   I make use of my knowledge of the topic to guess the meaning of word
   
9. 
   Guess word's meaning from word classes, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, to discover the meaning of new vocabulary items
   
10. 
    I analyze the word structure (prefix, root and suffix) when guessing the meaning of the word)
    
11. 
    I have a vocabulary note book to list down new word
    
12. 
    I write down the English word and translation of the word in my language
    
13. 
    I only take note the meaning of the word
    
14. 
    I take note of the usages of the word (example sentences, part of speech, etc.)
    
15. 
    To remember a word, I repeat it aloud to myself
    
16. 
    To remember a word, I write it repeatedly memorized.
    
17. 
    I create a mental image of the new word to help me remember the word.
    
18. 
    To remember a word, I analyze the word by breaking it into different parts.
    

2. INTERVIEW WITH TEACHER

What reading strategies do you know?
Teacher: To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and visualizing-organizing.
There are also 3 reading strategies which are skimming, scanning, reading intensively
Can you tell me the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SYLLABUS AND CURRICULUM?
Teacher: If I am not mistaken, syllabus – for the students. Curriculum – for the teachers.
What are the stages of the lesson?
Teacher: They are Pre while and post activities
If I have to teach vocabulary for elementary level, what useful ways can you suggest?
Teacher: They should watch cartoons with English vocabulary.
What kind of difficulties did you notice in your students’ vocabulary learning?
Teacher: Kinds of difficulties faced by students in vocabulary learning were various:

1. 
   almost all of the students have difficulties in pronouncing words
   
2. 
   how to write and spell
   
3. 
   different grammatical form of a word known as inflections was one of the causes of students difficulties in learning vocabulary
   
4. 
   difficulties in choosing the appropriate word to express desired meaning
   
5. 
   confusion in using words, based on context
   
6. 
   confusion with idiomatic expressions
   

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