Criteria for applying vocabularies in role play Meaning
Accuracy
for
the theme of
role play
Suitable
and
Accurate
for
Applying
Content
Pronunciation
Accuracy
for
Measuring
Spelling Ability
Percentages
50%
30%
20%
Significant of Study The study is significant since the field of teaching vocabulary has not a long history. The
results of this study will raise the English teachers’ awareness how different students can
learn through two types of different pedagogies. The significant difference will remind our
teachers when teaching vocabulary, the reciting or direct method can not be applied anymore
since students can only assess high-frequently appearing words. As to the new words,
students can not comprehend immediately in class without hard preparation. The results of
this study contribute to the curriculum designer and the policy makers of universities.
Research Setting of National Sun Yat-sen University The twenty-six students are Non-English majors in National Sun Yat-sen University,
Kaohsiung, located at the southern part of Taiwan Island. These adult language learners
around nineteen to twenty-three years old are freshmen from different colleges of National
Sun Yat-sen University, including majors of Chinese Literature, majors of Music, Computer
Science, Biology, Drama Performance,...etc. Most students had passed competitive joint
entrance examinations after graduation of senior high schools, so that they can study in the
top-level university of Taiwan.
In fact, the National Sun Yat-sen University is the best University in Kaohsiung, and its
reputation is within the top ten choices of University of Taiwan. For this class, in the whole
general course curriculum, they were defined as higher-intermediate level as well as the
second level comparing to the whole population of the freshmen, through a placement test
when just entering the school. The students’ first language was mostly Taiwanese, Hakka,
Mandarin and also very few students’ mother tongues were dialects of Mainland China, such
as dialect of Shanhai.
