Mariano Marcos State University

College of Teacher Education

EED 101 – Language Research

RESEARCH MATRIX TEMPLATE

(Selecting a Topic and Defining the Research Problem)

SECTION ___BSE English 3A___ TEAM NO. __7__

TEAM MEMBERS:
Bassi, Elijah Gabriel C. Ravina, Reynald C.
Caraang, Angeline Flomar, Diane Rose
Dancel, Apple Joy

GENERAL PROBLEM SPECIFIC PROBLEM RESEARCH OBJECTIVES RESEARCH QUESTIONS

We continue to build our vocabulary Vocabulary remains as one of the 1. To determine the students’ 1. What are the
throughout our lives, and according to difficult knowledge areas to gauge. level of vocabulary students’ level of vocabulary?
Steven Stahl (2005), “Vocabulary Hence, this study probes on the English 2. To identify the self-initiated 2. What are the self-
knowledge is a knowledge; the major Pre-service Teachers’ level of strategies of the students in terms of initiated strategies of the
knowledge of a word not only vocabulary knowledge and from this, their vocabulary improvement students to improve their
suggests a definition but also implies identify the self-initiated strategies through a table categorizing their vocabulary?
how that word fits into the world”. they make use for their vocabulary levels of proficiency: High, Neutral,
This skill is a prerequisite for English improvement. Developing
major Pre-service teachers. However, 3. To identify the reasons behind 3. What are the reasons
as Barnard (2001) and Quinn (2000) the implementation of the strategies. behind the implementation of
provide evidence on the low level of Reasons are also categorized into these self-initiated strategies
vocabulary knowledge among Asian three levels: High, Neutral, that students make to improve
university students. Developing their vocabulary?