Vocabulary Class

Enhancing the power of vocabulary of students in Grades 7 -B

MR/Ilma college, kotuwegoda, Matara.

A.A.MOHAMEDWASEEL 2007/ SC/E/ M/05

Attestation I A.A Mohamed waseel teaching at MR / Ilma College, Matara as an intern have done a project under the concept of “enhancing the power of the vocabulary of grade 7-B students. I am honest enough to say that this project has been done under the direction of our supervising lecturers Mr. Siripala Gamage and Mrs. Ekanayaka and our school principal and the staff. I earnestly and honestly state that I have done the project with the pure purpose of fulfilling the requirement of the student and to completion of the 3 years Diploma in teaching .i am very proud to declare that all the details given in this report are true and not an extract from any other resources. I submit this project to my supervising lecturer Mr. Siripala Gamage. For inspection and improvement and annotations.

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President of Nilwala National College of Education,Mr.Dharmasena Rillagodage

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Vice presidents and the lecturers of Nilwala National College of Education

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Internship supervisors,  Mr. Siripala Gamage.  Mrs.Ekanayaka

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The principal,

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The vice principals and the teachers of the school,

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The students of grade 7-B,

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My internship colleagues,

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Parents of the students,

for the kind co-operation, the guidance & the support they rendered on my project. My special thanks also go to my friends who helped me in numerous ways.

Finally, would like to thank the non-academic staff of MR/Ilma College for giving their helping hand to finish my project successfully

Contents

1. Declaration of the Project

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2. Project Proposal

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3. 1st Chapter

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4.1 Introducing the problem 4.2 Objectives 4.3 Time Frame 4. 2nd Chapter

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5.1 Implementation of the project 5.2 Collecting Data 5.3 Problems Aroused 5.4 Minimizing the problems 5. Conclusions and Suggestions

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6. Annexes

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Declaration of the Project

I here by declare that this individual project report on Student - Assist ‘Enhancing the power of vocabulary of students in Grades 7 -B’ implemented by the intern of Nilwala National College of Education, A.A.Mohamed waseel, is an independent project report and is not an extract from any other source.

…………………………….. Signature of the internee

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Introducing the Problem I was appointed to MR/Ilma College, Matara as an internee on 05th of January in 2009.It is a Muslim school in southern province. I teach Science for Grades 7-B and 8-C and as for my minor subject I do Information technology for Grade 11-C. Soon after I attached to the school I got response for grade 7-B and 8-C. both two classes are English medium classes and Grade 7-B was brought up as an English medium class from Grade 1. For an English medium student there are two major responses rather than a student learning in his mother tongue. The first one is he /she should be able to understand the language first and the other one is understanding the lesson taught. Therefore it is rather clear if any one want to study in English medium he / she should be fairly good in the language first. During the first week I starting my teaching I found that the students are lack of vocabulary power. So I decided to implement the project.

Objectives 

Constructing a fairly good knowledge in vocabulary.

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Enhancing the ability of writing English words correctly.

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Making English an interesting subject for the students.

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Giving a helping hand for the students to carry on their studies in

English medium stream.

Time Frame

1. Identifying the problem

2. Discussing about the problem with the principal 3. Collecting data 4. Arranging a time to hold the class 5. started to perform 6. Evaluating the progress of students 7. Arranging the project report

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Activity

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Implementation of the Project Soon after arriving to this school, I noticed that the students in the class 7-B which I teach Science are lack of vocabulary. So I thought for improving their ability in vocabulary through a special method. Firstly I discussed the problem with the principal. He agreed with me at once and gave permission to implement the project. After that I discussed the problem with the language teachers. They gave me a good support and gave suggestions on how to perform that proposal successfully. Through that I was able to collect necessary information about the students. My first action in implementing the project was instructing the students to maintain 120 pages exercise book to write down the new words they come across in everyday lessons. And they should arrange their words in the order. And next day they should find the meaning from dictionaries or asking from parents or their siblings. Every day I check the knowledge of the vocabulary by asking a student randomly. So I got the support from students in large level. Because they all paid an interest on learning the new words. I performed this activity in the same period when I do science for them. Before starting the lesson or after the lesson I implement the project everyday. This was rather success one. Because whenever they face new words as soon as they record the word in the vocabulary book. Then they are searching the word on the dictionary or next day asking to me. From this activity I decide to hold a weekend class to assess their vocabulary. It was easy to evaluate the all students than individual evaluation. Then I got the permission to hold a weekend vocabulary test to the students. After got the permission to keep the weekend test I preferred the Friday. Then I informed the students about the test.

Data collection I collected necessary information from the principal, vice principal, staff, students and non academic staff. Resources used Human Resource

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principal Language teachers My internship colleagues Non-academic staff Parents

Physical Resources English exam report registers Grade 7 - B class room

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The Problems aroused when preparing

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Some of the students had some evening classes on Fridays so that it was

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Most of the parents are uneducated.

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Students are not move friendly with one another.

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Some of the students are very low level in language proficiency.

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Some of the students do not have a dictionary at home.

How I handled the problems.

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At first I allocated Fridays for the evaluation and some of the

students having evening classes so as they could not be attended for the test. Then I keep the same test in the relief periods in school time.

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Some of the students do not have a dictionary at home (about

4students) so there are no way to replace. So I found an abandoned dictionary at school and submitted to keep the dictionary in school and they should use the dictionary in school time.

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Some students are rather below up to the level so they are the

obstacles of the progress. Therefore I gave some extra works so that they can carry out at his homes.

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Students were not talking in a friendly manner among them. And

always they complained about others seated next to them. This attitude led another problem. That was if a student unable to find the meaning of a word other one is not helping to that student. So he/she is desperate to find the meaning of the word. So I get two students paired together and told to face the test together. This was successful.

Conclusions

I got a lot of experiences by doing this project, on enhancing the power of vocabulary. And also I got how to cope up with the problems aroused, and how to handle them while implementing this type of a task. I was easily able to decide concept of the project because all the students are seemed to have same problem and that are desperate. Those students in the classes in which I teach Science are lack of English vocabulary power. Finally I gratitude my thanks to the principal to provide necessary information through the teachers in the English medium section of the school whenever needed. I identified him as a good principal, who is able to get the maximum support from the teachers of the school through his patience. It encouraged me to finish up my task successfully. That is a great example for not only my teaching career but also for my life