HUNG YEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES --------------------------------------- GRADUATION PAPER FIELD: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS A STUDY ON DIFFCULTIES AND SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILL FOR THE SECOND- YEAR STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT HUNG YEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION (NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ NHỮNG KHÓ KHĂN VÀ GIẢI PHÁP CẢI THIỆN KĨ NĂNG VIẾT CHO SINH VIÊN NĂM THỨ HAI NGÀNH CÔNG NGHỆ THÔNG TIN TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM KĨ THUẬT HƯNG YÊN ) Supervisor: Hoang Thi Hoa Student: Nguyen Thi Hanh Student number: 11316021 Hung Yen – 06, 2021 HUNG YEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES --------------------------------------- GRADUATION PAPER FIELD: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS A STUDY ON DIFFCULTIES AND SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILL FOR THE SECOND- YEAR STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT HUNG YEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION (NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ NHỮNG KHÓ KHĂN VÀ GIẢI PHÁP CẢI THIỆN KĨ NĂNG VIẾT CHO SINH VIÊN NĂM THỨ HAI NGÀNH CÔNG NGHỆ THÔNG TIN TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM KĨ THUẬT HƯNG YÊN) Student: Nguyen Thi Hanh Student number: 11316021 Supervisor: Hoang Thi Hoa (Ký tên) Hung Yen – 06, 2021 i DECLARATION I certify that the thesis entitled “A study on difficulties and solutions to improve writing skill for the second- year students at the Faculty of Information Technology at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education.” This graduation paper is the result of my own research and the substance of this thesis has not been submitted for a degree to any other university or institution. Hung Yen, May 2021 Signature Nguyen Thi Hanh ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To complete this graduation paper, I am deeply indebted to many people for their valuable advices and suggestions. This paper could not have been done without the help, encouragement and support from my teacher, my family and my friends. First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Mrs.
Hoang Thi Hoa– who has always been most willing to give me support. His continual encouragement, careful reading, patient guidance made my job more enjoyable and easier. My sincere thanks also send to the lectures at Faculty of Foreign Languages at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education for their useful lessons during four years studying here. Special words of thank also give to all my informants for their willing participation in the study.
I greatly appreciate their generosity with their time and efforts in filling in the questionnaire, without them this paper could not have been done. Finally, I wish to give my deepest thanks to my family, my friends who I have never enough words to express my great gratitude for their encouragement and inspiration. iii ABSTRACT As English is the international language, learning English is more and more necessary. In the process of learning language, learners are supposed to master four skills, namely listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Among these four skills, writing is considered as the most important one. The thesis will study the subjective and objective difficulties of the students in learning the writing skill. Then, it would like to find out the reasons for those problems and the solutions for both teachers and students in teaching and learning the writing skill. Therefore, I applied the qualitative and quantitative methods to do the research.
So the collecting data instruments like questionnaires, interviews were used to do the study. The results of the research will point out the difficulties that students meet when they learn the writing skill. More importantly, the study helps me find out the causes of those difficulties so that I can work out the right solutions to the problems. I hope that the study will make a great contribution to solve the difficulties of the students and help them succeed in learning writing skill.
iv TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS. iv LIST OF CHARTS. vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
viii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. Rationale of the study. Aims of the study. Research question of the study.
Scope of the study. Method of the study. Design of the study. 3 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.
Overview of writing. Definitions of writing. The importance of writing. Definitions of writing letter.
Types of writing letter. Factors causing the difficulties in learning the writing skill. 7 CHAPTER 3: THE STUDY. The participants of the study.
Data collection instruments. The survey questionnaires. The survey questionnaires. The interview for students.
Main findings and discussions. Summary of the study. Limitations of the study. Suggestions for further studies.
34 APPENDIX 1: SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENTS. I APPENDIX 2: SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR TEACHERS. V APPENDIX 3: INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR STUDENTS. IX vi LIST OF TABLES Table 1.
The percentage of student’s understanding in lessons when studying writing in class. The student’s opinion on the difficulties of the learning writing skill (unit: percentage). 15 Table 3 The teacher’s opinion on the difficulties of the learning writing skill (unit: percentage). 16 Table 4 – The teacher’s opinion on the difficulties of the learning writing skill (unit: percentage).
17 Table 5 The opinion of the teachers and the students about the activities students like most in writing English lessons in class (unit: percentage). 20 Table 6 - The student’s assessment of some pre – writing activities (unit: %). 21 Table 7 - The teacher’s assessment of some pre – writing activities (unit: %). 22 Table 8 - The student’s assessment of some pre – writing activities (unit: %).
23 Table 9 – The teacher’s opinions about the effective methods to improve writing skill (unit: %). 25 vii LIST OF CHARTS Chart 1 - The importance of writing skill (unit: percentage). 10 Chart 2 - The assessment on difficulty of writing skill (unit: percentage). 11 Chart 3 - The teacher’s opinion about the student’s interest in writing skills (unit: percentage).
12 Chart 4 - The teacher’s and the student’s opinion on the trouble of learning writing skill of students. 14 Chart 5 - The teacher’s and the student’s opinion about the frequency of student’s practicing writing skill. 19 viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1. UTEHY: Hung Yen University of Technology and Education 2.
FIT: Faculty of Information Technology 3. MA: Master of Arts 4.1: The name of the second year Information Technology major students at Faculty of Information Technology, Hung Yen University of Technology and Education in campus 2, Pho Noi 5.1: The name of the final year English major students at Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hung Yen University of Technology and Education in campus 2, Pho Noi 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study Nowadays, learning foreign languages is more and more popular. It is considering as the bridge connecting countries in many fields in society such as: communication, economy, technology, etc.
If we become the master of foreign languages, we can communicate well with people over the world, achieve mutual understandings and broaden economic cooperation, etc. So learning English is not strange with everyone because it is the most popular. In addition, English is considered a compulsory subject in almost high schools that also is a compulsory examination subject in the high school and lower secondary graduation together with math and literature subject. According to Wikipedia, it is estimated that more than 50 countries round the world use English as an official language.
So, if we use English fluently, we will have a good job with high salary. In learning English, there are four main skills, including listening, reading, speaking and writing. A fact pointed out that people learning English concentrate on speaking skill and others more than writing skill. Because of four language skills, writing is considered a complex skill that most learners find difficult to study well.
That is because in language teaching, it is a productive and taught skill, Moreover, they think that writing skill is not important and necessary for your jobs in the future. However, it is not true. Writing skill is a solid foundation for the development of the language. Having a good writing skill, we will be confident enough to communicate with others.
Due to the importance of productive skill, the course for the students at UTEHY pays much attention to writing. At UTEHY, writing letter is conducted for the second – year Information Technology students because it is one of the fundamental and basic writing skills. Writing letter is the background for students to learn other writing skills in the next terms. However, most of the second – year Information Technology major students at UTEHY often make many mistakes of vocabulary.
Grammar, organization as well as idea expressions. Therefore, in order to help the second – year Information Technology major students have a good foundation for writing skill, difficulties and solutions are given in this thesis. These can create more chances for students to perfect English skills. That is the reason why 2 I have decided to conduct a research entitled “A study on difficulties and solutions to improve writing skill for the second- year students at the Faculty of Information Technology at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education” with the purpose of finding difficulties and suggesting for the second year Information Technology major students some useful solutions to overcome difficulties as well as improve their writing letter writing skills.
Aims of the study The study is aimed at: - To find out the second Information Technology major students’ attitudes in learning writing letter writing skill at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education. - To study difficulties in learning letter writing skill of the second year Information Technology major students at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education. - To suggest solutions for improve learning writing letter writing skill of the second year Information Technology major students at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education. Research question of the study My study will follow three main questions: - What are the second-year Information Technology major student’s attitudes in learning letter writing skill at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education? - What are common difficulties that the second year Information Technology major students have to encounter in learning writing letter writing skill at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education? - What are effective solutions for second year Information Technology major students at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education to improve their writing letter writing skill? 1.
Scope of the study Due to the limitation of time and distance, the study applied for the second year Information Technology major students in campus 2 at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education with the aim of finding out common difficulties and giving some effectives solutions to improve their letter writing skill. Besides, the second year Information Technology major students in FIT, at UTEHY study short essay writing skills. However, in order to have a good essay, they have good 3 letter writing skill because the letter is the composition of the essay. In addition, the fact that the second year Information Technology major students still have difficulties in writing letter.
Therefore, I decided to do research on difficulties and solutions to improve writing letter writing skills for second year Information Technology major students. Method of the study In order to collect data for researching, the author uses both quantitative and qualitative methods including questionnaires for students and lecturers, interview question for students only. The questionnaire and interviewer questions were designed basing on the main aims of the study. After getting the results, the researcher uses the tables and charts to show the collected data.
Through above methods the researcher understood and analyzed clearly currents’ attitudes and gave them the effective solutions.