Microsoft Word Interactive Approaches for Vocabulary Te

Sample description 
The students were requested to take English courses and they have to achieve their 
proficiency to a certain required level in order to pass the criteria of graduation. For example, 

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they need to either pass the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) intermediate high level 
or pass the level of highest required English course, “English three-two level course.” From 
the observation of the researchers, most students would rather take all the required English 
general courses instead of trying participating the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) 
test. The reason might be that they had ever gone through the competitive and intricate joint 
entrance examination, so that they would not make themselves throw themselves into in the 
anxious testing environment again.
Data Collection 
Students were given two quizzes at the end of first and second sessions of training. In 
the first two weeks, students were trained through direct method, which teacher gave lecture 
for the reading content and translated the meaning for the students without guiding students 
interacted with each other. Students’ scores of memorizing words in the first part as well as 
the chapter one to chapter ten were measured through a simple quiz at the end of the training. 
Students were requested to answer the meanings to the fifteen written words on the 
blackboard. 
The data collection in the second session of training is more complicated. At the end of 
the study for chapter six to chapter ten, students were asked to do the role play based on the 
content of the texts. Students’ performances were video taped and their word applications 
were evaluated through the above criteria. For each student, two or three words were 
collected, transcribed into paper and analyzed. The final score of their quiz will depend on the 
accuracy level of their understanding for meaning, and the accuracy of pronunciation. The 
researcher of this study suggests that when the students can pronounce a word well, the better 
he/she should be able to spell the words.