g.Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Main Findings of the Study
Along with the steady growth of junior high school EFL teaching practice ingeneral, junior high school EFL word teaching practice has made remarkable progress.So far, however, there are still some problems in the use of word teaching methods byjunior high school EFL teachers. Meanwhile, with the continual advance of junior highschool EFL teaching research, the study of junior high school EFL word teaching hasalso made considerable achievements. Up to now, however, the study of the use ofword teaching methods by junior high school EFL teachers has not been adequate.
In such a setting of teaching practice and research, therefore, the present study hasintended to, with 60 junior high school EFL teachers from three high schools in Chinaas participants, on the basis of relevant foreign language teaching theories and methods,and through a methodology integrating questionnaire survey, interview, and classroomobservation, explore the use of word teaching methods by junior high school EFLteachers in terms of the frequency of the use of different methods, the relationship ofthe choice of different methods to the teachers’ years of teaching, and the effects ofdifferent methods on word learning tasks. To be specific, this study aims to address thefollowing questions:
(1) What is the frequency of the use of different word teaching methods by juniorhigh school EFL teachers?
(2) What is the relationship between the choice of different word teaching methods and the teachers’ years of teaching?
(3) What are the effects of different word teaching methods on word learning tasks?
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