Hai phong private university Foreign languages department ------*****------ ISO 9001 - 2008 Graduation paper How to teach countable and uncountable nouns to the first year non- English majors of Hai Phong Private University By: Lª ThÞ Ngêi Class: na903 Supervisor: NguyÔn ThÞ HuyÒn, ma Hai phong, 2009 1 Bé gi¸o dôc vµ ®µo t¹o Tr-êng ®¹i hoc d©n lËp h¶i phßng NhiÖm vô ®Ò tµi tèt nghiÖp Sinh viªn:. 2 NhiÖm vô ®Ò tµi 1, Néi dung vµ c¸c yªu cÇu cÇn gi¶i quyÕt tronh nhiÖm vô ®Ò tµi tèt nghiÖp ( VÒ lý luËn, thùc tiÔn, c¸c sè liÖu cÇn tÝnh to¸n vµ c¸c b¶n vÏ). 2, C¸c sè liÖu cÇn thiÕt ®Ó thiÕt kÕ, tÝnh to¸n. 3 C¸n bé h-íng dÉn ®Ò tµi tèt nghiÖp Ng-êi h-íng dÉn thø nhÊt: Hä vµ tªn:.
Néi dung h-íng dÉn:. Ng-êi h-íng dÉn thø hai:. Néi dung h-íng dÉn:. §Ò tµi tèt nghiÖp ®-îc giao ngµy.
Yªu cÇu hoµn thµnh tr-íc ngµy. §· nhËn nhiÖm vô §.N §· giao nhiÖm vô §.N Sinh viªn C¸n bé h-íng dÉn §.N H¶i Phßng, ngµy. HiÖu tr-ëng 4 PhiÕu nhËn xÐt tãm t¾t cña c¸n bé h-íng dÉn 1. Tinh thÇn th¸i ®é cña sinh viªn trong qu¸ tr×nh lµm ®Ò tµi tèt nghiÖp.
§¸nh gi¸ chÊt l-îng §.N ( so víi néi dung yªu cÇu ®· ®Ò ra trong nhiÖm vô §.N trªn c¸c mÆt lý luËn , thùc tiÔn, tÝnh to¸n gi¸ trÞ sö dông, chÊt l-îng c¸c b¶n vÏ). Cho ®iÓm cña c¸n bé h-íng dÉn: ( §iÓm ghi b»ng sè vµ ch÷). H¶i Phßng, ngµy. C¸n bé h-íng dÉn chÝnh (Hä tªn vµ ch÷ ký) 5 NhËn xÐt vµ ®¸nh gi¸ cña c¸n bé chÊm ph¶n biÖn ®Ò tµi tèt nghiÖp 1.
§¸nh gi¸ chÊt l-îng ®Ò tµi tèt nghiÖp vÒ c¸c mÆt thu nhËp vµ ph©n tÝch sè ban ®Çu, c¬ së lý luËn chän ph-¬ng ¸n tèi -u, c¸ch tÝnh to¸n chÊt l-îng thuyÕt minh vµ b¶n vÏ, gi¸ trÞ lý luËn vµ thùc tiÔn ®Ò tµi. Cho ®iÓm cña c¸n bé ph¶n biÖn ( §iÓm ghi b»ng sè vµ ch÷). Ng-êi chÊm ph¶n biÖn 6 Table of contents Acknowledgement. Part one : introduction 1) Rationale.1 2) Aims of the study.2 3) Scope of the study.3 4) Methods of the study.3 5) Designs of the study.3 Part two : development.
Chapter one : Theoretical background I. 1) What is noun ?.2 Types of nouns.7 2) How to identify countable and uncountable nouns.1 What is countable noun?.1 Categories of countable nouns.2 Using articles with countable nouns.3 Using the singular form of the verb with a singular countable noun.2 What is uncountable noun?.1 Categories of uncountable nouns.12 d) Non-plurals with ―s‖.2 Using articles with uncountable nouns.12 3) Noun which can be either countable or uncountable nouns.1 Differences in meaning.2 Referring to objects or material.3 Referring to something specific.4 Nouns endings ―- ing‖.5 Selected uncountable nouns and their countable equivalents.6 Normally uncountable nouns used as countable nouns.17 II) Techniques in teaching countable and uncountable nouns.18 1) Lecture and discussion methods.18 2) Pair and group work.19 3) Games and simulations.20 Chapter II : The study on learning and teaching English at Hai Phong private university I.22 4) Teaching and learning condition.23 5) The design and focus of the English the book “Reward”.24 II Survey questionnaires.25 1) Method of survey.25 8 2) Objectives of survey.1 The surveyed students ‘general attitudes toward English. Current situation of studying techniques an English countable and uncountable nouns lesson. Students‘ expectations about a new teaching method.33 4) Findings and discussion of findings.37 Chapter three : Some suggested techniques in teaching countable and uncountable nouns for the first year non- English majors I.
Suggest activities for teaching.39 1 Teaching through visual aids.39 2 Teaching by pictures.1 Example application for teaching by picture.1 Explaining the difference about meaning.2 Explaining the partitives.45 3 Teaching through games.3 Guess the word.5 Get rid of it.7 Cross out the words.1 Extract nouns from sentences.2 Extract nouns from paragraphs.59 Part III : conclusion.61 References Appendix 10 HAI PHONG, JUNE 2009 Acknowledgements In the process of implementing my research paper, I have received a lot of help , encouragement and experiences from teachers and friends. Especially , my graduation subject now is completed successfully thanks to all teachers‘ support in Hai Phong Private University (HPU ). First of all , I would like to express my sincere thank to my supervisor Mrs. Nguyen Thi Huyen, M.A who has generously given me invaluable assistance and guidance.
Without her help, this paper will not successfully done. Besides, my sincere thank is also extended to all the teachers in Department of Foreign language for their lectures supporting this study, Simultaneously, my thank to all the students who help me fulfill the survey question. Last but not least , I am grateful to my family and friends who have given me much encouragement during the time I carried out this paper Students Ngoi Le Thi Ngoi 11 Part one : introduction 6) Rationale English is a global language used by millions of people all over the world. Obviously, English connects people, shortens the distance and makes every body closer and closer.
In modern society , it is considered as an indispensable language in the process of communicating with various kinds of people from different courtesies. Mastering English is the best way for us to have a great deal of opportunities to reach the success in life. As a matter of fact , it is not easy to study well a foreign language like English. Almost students have difficulties in studying vocabulary at first.
In fact, studying vocabulary well is one of the key which helps learners step by step discover this interesting language. To the beginners, vocabulary is the most important role in integrating four basic skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. In order to use English as an effective tool in communication, students have to equip an quite enough knowledge about vocabulary, including meaning, form, word form and grammar. A lack of vocabulary development affects students' reading comprehension and their writing skills, influencing future success and career choices.
Vocabulary learning particularly affects the success of English learners; Studying English nouns as the foreign language comes lot of difficulties for the learners. The store of various vocabulary is really complicated, some of them are easy but some are so difficult to understand and memorize. Especially, students have difficulty in studying English countable and uncountable nouns. For one thing, the determination of what nouns are countable and what nouns are non-countable is by no means universal.
For instance, although somebody can advise us several times, we can't say they give us advises, although that would translate quite nicely into several other 12 languages. We would say, in English, that they give us advice. In some languages, it makes sense to sit in a restaurant with a friend and ask for waters (and get two glasses of water) — something that would sound quite peculiar in English. There fore, teaching countable and uncountable nouns for learner requires a special teaching action and teaching methods completely different from those for.
Here the object I want to focus is the 1st non- English majors In my opinion the most important aspect of countable and uncountable nouns teaching for advanced learners is to foster learner independence so that learners will be able to deal with new lexis and expand their vocabulary beyond the end of the course. Therefore guided discovery, contextual guesswork and using dictionaries should be the main ways to deal with discovering meaning. Due to my English knowledge limitation and the frame of the graduation paper, I make a sketchy presentation on some effective methods of studying countable and uncountable nouns with hope that this can help the 1st year non- English majors in Hai Phong Private University. In the future time, they will study English for special purpose which requires lots of vocabulary.
From the above reasons, I would like to choose the research paper entitled : ― how to teach countable and uncountable nouns to the 1st year non- English majors of Hai Phong Private University‖ to help the mentioned students as well as others enrich their English countable and uncountable nouns. 7) Aims of the study The main goal of my research paper is to provide some suggested techniques in teaching countable and uncountable nouns for the first year non- English majors to make students more interested in the lesson as well as to master learnt knowledge of that lesson in an effective way. In order to gain that aim, the specific objects of the study are: 13 To study the theory of countable and uncountable nouns, its usage and some techniques for teachers to apply. To get known about the reality of teaching and learning English at Hai Phong Private University with specific facts and figures.
To provide some suggested techniques in teaching countable and uncountable nouns for the first year non-English majors. Basing on those findings, the study also includes suggested applications for teaching. 8) Scope of the study In fact, there are lots of various techniques to study English countable and uncountable nouns. It requires much of time and effort.
However, due to the limitation of time, resources and knowledge of mine, this study can only focus on study some effective techniques in studying English countable and uncountable nouns for the 1st year non- English majors in Hai Phong Private University. 9) Methods of the study To complete this graduation paper, a series of methods have been applied: Collected references, books and websites related to teaching English and documents were analyzed in details to form the theoretical back ground this paper. A survey questionnaire is conducted for the first year students and teachers of English at Hai Phong Private University, the information from which has invaluable. Suggestions experience from my supervisor Mrs.Nguyen Thi Huyen, MA, other teachers and my understanding at Hai Phong Private University and gained experience in training course.
10) Designs of the study The study is divided into three mains: Part one is INTRODUCTION that indicates the rationale for choose this topic, pointing out the aim, the scope as well as the methods of the study. Part two named THE STUDY, which consists of three chapters: 14 - Chapter1: ― Theoretical background‖ focuses on the way teaching English grammar and techniques to teach. - Chapter 2; ―The study on learning and teaching English at Hai Phong Private University‖ refers to the survey questionnaire and analyzed findings of questionnaire‘s results. - Chapter3: ―Some suggested techniques in teaching countable and uncountable nouns for the first year non-English majors‖ that contains some techniques to teach countable and uncountable nouns through pictures and some more suggested activities.
Part three is CONCLUSION in which all the issued mentioned above are summarized. Briefly, part 1 has referred to rationale , aims, scopes, method and designs of the research paper. In the part 2, the study will focus on the literature review , the study on learning English of the 1 st years non- English majors in Hai Phong Private University and some suggested techniques to teach countable and uncountable nouns. 15 Part two : development.
Chapter one : Theoretical background I. 1) What is a noun? 1. There are many definitions about noun: By Christine Lehman, eHow Editor, a noun is a part of speech that can be either a person, a place or a thing. Nouns are perhaps the easiest part of speech to pick out.
Thus, they are one of the first parts of speech taught to elementary school children. Schoolhouse Rock, known for its catchy yet educational songs, has one devoted to identifying nouns. Another definition of noun is provided by A University Grammar of English by Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum, Longman Group: ( Essex, England. 1993) : ― a noun tells us what someone or something is called.