It can be understood that vocabulary is a key point in learning English. As a teacher of English for high school students, I am highly aware of vocabulary acquisition function for my students. They are from rural district with quite low level of English. In addition, they have obstacles with words when they are learning English because of lacking vocabulary. Therefore, they could face with a number of difficulties learning vocabulary effectively. As a teacher, I want to find out a solution to this problem in my class. It results a need for more supplementary activities to enhance students’ vocabulary retention. Aiming to achieve my goals, I prefer action research with helps me in finding out the effectiveness of supplementary activities on my students, and their attitudes towards those activities. That using digital flashcards and paper flashcards is expected to support students’ vocabulary retention. Observation and questionnaire are research tools which help me to carry out my study. Due to the limitattion of the study, the participants includes 45 students in the practitioner’s class, quite a small number. After an eight-week study, the practitioner gets some positive feedback of the students, and the students’ output is a little better; their desire to the adjustment is an encouragement. By applying some supplementary activities to enhance students’ vocabulary retention, she hopes to help and suggest some effective vocabulary learning and teaching activities. Therefore, she does expect that her findings would be the hints for further investigation in vocabulary retention as well. Although the study time is not quite long, she would carefully review and think of later study.
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It can be understood that vocabulary is a key point in learning English. As a teacher of English for high school students, I am highly aware of vocabulary acquisition function for my students. They are from rural district with quite low level of English. In addition, they have obstacles with words when they are learning English because of lacking vocabulary. Therefore, they could face with a number of difficulties learning vocabulary effectively. As a teacher, I want to find out a solution to this problem in my class. It results a need for more supplementary activities to enhance students’ vocabulary retention. Aiming to achieve my goals, I prefer action research with helps me in finding out the effectiveness of supplementary activities on my students, and their attitudes towards those activities. That using digital flashcards and paper flashcards is expected to support students’ vocabulary retention. Observation and questionnaire are research tools which help me to carry out my study. Due to the limitattion of the study, the participants includes 45 students in the practitioner’s class, quite a small number. After an eight-week study, the practitioner gets some positive feedback of the students, and the students’ output is a little better; their desire to the adjustment is an encouragement. By applying some supplementary activities to enhance students’ vocabulary retention, she hopes to help and suggest some effective vocabulary learning and teaching activities. Therefore, she does expect that her findings would be the hints for further investigation in vocabulary retention as well. Although the study time is not quite long, she would carefully review and think of later study.
