BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG ------------------------------- ISO 9001:2015 KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Bùi Thị Thu Giảng viên hướng dẫn: TS. Trần Thị Ngọc Liên HẢI PHÒNG – 2019 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- A STUDY ON EFFECTIVE READING STRATEGIES OF STUDENTS OF GRADE 6 AT PHU NINH SECONDARY SCHOOL KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP ĐẠI HỌC HỆ CHÍNH QUY NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Bùi Thị Thu Giảng viên hướng dẫn: TS. Trần Thị Ngọc Liên HẢI PHÒNG – 2019 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG - NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Sinh viên: Bùi Thị Thu Mã SV:1412751131 Lớp: NA1804 Ngành: Ngôn ngữ anh Tên đề tài: A study on effective reading strategies of students of grade 6 at Phu Ninh secondary school NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI 1. Nội dung và các yêu cầu cần giải quyết trong nhiệm vụ đề tài tốt nghiệp ( về lý luận, thực tiễn, các số liệu cần tính toán và các bản vẽ).
Các số liệu cần thiết để thiết kế, tính toán. Địa điểm thực tập tốt nghiệp. CÁN BỘ HƯỚNG DẪN ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Người hướng dẫn thứ nhất: Họ và tên:. Học hàm, học vị:.
Nội dung hướng dẫn:. Người hướng dẫn thứ hai: Họ và tên:. Học hàm, học vị:. Nội dung hướng dẫn:.
Đề tài tốt nghiệp được giao ngày tháng năm Yêu cầu phải hoàn thành xong trước ngày tháng năm Đã nhận nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Đã giao nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Sinh viên Người hướng dẫn Bùi Thị Thu TS. Trần Thị Ngọc Liên Hải Phòng, ngày. năm 2019 Hiệu trưởng GS.NGƯT Trần Hữu Nghị CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc PHIẾU NHẬN XÉT CỦA GIẢNG VIÊN HƯỚNG DẪN TỐT NGHIỆP Họ và tên giảng viên:. Họ và tên sinh viên:.
Nội dung hướng dẫn:. Tinh thần thái độ của sinh viên trong quá trình làm đề tài tốt nghiệp. Đánh giá chất lượng của đồ án/khóa luận (so với nội dung yêu cầu đã đề ra trong nhiệm vụ Đ.N trên các mặt lý luận, thực tiễn, tính toán số liệu…). Ý kiến của giảng viên hướng dẫn tốt nghiệp Được bảo vệ Không được bảo vệ Điểm hướng dẫn Hải Phòng, ngày … tháng … năm.
Giảng viên hướng dẫn (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên) QC20-B18 CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc PHIẾU NHẬN XÉT CỦA GIẢNG VIÊN CHẤM PHẢN BIỆN Họ và tên giảng viên:. Họ và tên sinh viên:. Đề tài tốt nghiệp:. Phần nhận xét của giáo viên chấm phản biện.
Những mặt còn hạn chế. Ý kiến của giảng viênchấm phản biện Được bảo vệ Không được bảo vệ Điểm hướng dẫn Hải Phòng, ngày … tháng … năm. Giảng viênchấm phản biện (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên QC20-B19 TABLE OF CONTENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. v LIST OF TABLE.
iii LIST OF CHART. iv CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION.1Rationale for the study .2 Aims of the study .3 Objectives of the study .5 Scope of the study.6 Significance of the study. 3 CHAPTER II: THEORECTICAL BACKGROUND .1 The nature of reading comprehension .1 What is reading? .2 Definition of reading comprehension .2 Types of reading .2 General reading strategies. Basic skills for reading comprehension.
11 CHAPTER III : METHOLOGY .1 Descriptions of the participants .2 Data collection instruments .3 Data collection procedures. 14 i CHAPTER IV: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Test results on reading comprehension. Pre-test results .2 Post-test result .3 Comparison of pre-test and post-test .1 Pre- questionnaire results.
Post-questionnaire results. 27 Chapter V: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION .2 Limitation of the study .3 Implications for further research. 50 ii LIST OF TABLE Table 1: Some micro-skills for reading comprehension. 8 Table 2: Reading skill 1.
9 Table 3: Reading skill 2. 10 Table 4: Reading skill 3. 10 Table 5: Reading skill 4. 10 Table 7: Pre-test scores of class 6 A.
15 Table 8: Post-test scores of class 6 A. 16 Table 9: Comparison of pre-test and post test. 17 Table 10: Feeling about reading comprehension. 19 Table 11 : Problems faced by reading lesson.
19 Table 12: How students deal with difficulties. 20 Table 13 : Reading skills to deal with reading difficulties. 20 Table 14 : Translate while reading. 21 Table 15: Thinking of student about reading strategies.
21 Table 16: Feeling about reading comprehension. 22 Table 18: How students deal with difficulties. 23 Table 19: Reading skill to deal with difficulties. 23 Table 20 : Translating while reading.
24 Table 21: Evaluation of students’ reading ability. 24 Table 22: the necessary of guessing strategy. 25 iii LIST OF CHART Chart 1: Pre- test score of class 6 A. 16 Chart 2:Post-test scores of class 6 A.
17 Chart 3: Comparison of pre-test and post-test. 18 iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to give my sincere thanks those who have taken part in my research and those who have given their support and encouragement during the time I have conducted this study. First of all, I would like express my special thanks to my supervisor Dr.Tran Thi Ngoc Lien for her careful reading, critical and useful comments and continental guidance and patience throughout my thesis. Her contribution plays an important role in the completion of my study.
Without her guidance I wouldn’t have successfully completed my study. Secondly, I wish to thank the whole English department staff of Hai Phong Private University for their useful lectures and advices. Lastly, I also would like to thank my family and friends for their encouragement and precious time during my study. v CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION This chapter contains seven parts: I Rationale for the study, II Aims of the study, III Object of the study, IV Research questions, V Scope of the study, VI Significance of the study, VII Design of the study.2 Rationale for the study Reading is a fundamental skill in language learning and is one of the pillars of the act of reading in the four basic skills.
It contributes an important role in second language acquisition. Good language learners are usually good reader, who well understand that the productive skills like writing and speaking are supported by the receptive ones namely reading and listening as inputs drive outputs in this cognitive process .This is the opinion shared by researchers who propose that “reading is a basic and complementary skill in language learning. 216) or an indispensable language skill which even guarantees “a person’s future opportunities for success and prosperity [.] and offer every person the opportunity to become a skilled reader,[. 6) It is, however, not always simple to become good readers due to numerous difficulties encounter by learners and among them the hardest obstacle is lack off vocabulary knowledge.
Some of the expert agree that text comprehension requires “rather extensive knowledge of vocabulary and grammar” (Celce- Murcia, & Mcintosh, 1991, p.198), and reading and vocabulary have a “strong” (Paribakht and Wesche, 1999) or “bilateral” relation (Hayati, 2005, p.61) in which one supports the other. In other words, a good reader in foreign language should first master the language vocabulary. They need to read more extensively for effective communication and for greater knowledge of vocabulary as according to Hu & Nassaji (2014) “reading is strong means of vocabulary acquisition for foreign language learners” or as Luckner & Cooke (2010) propose “vocabulary is essential for communicating, reading, thinking, and learning.” In fact, it can be easily seen that second language learners are not confident in their reading without a dictionary because their vocabulary learned in the class and from textbook are obviously no enough for the English reading nowadays. Dictionary may provide readers the meaning of word however, but thoroughly understanding the context requires knowledge of most of the other 1 words in the passage.
A study of limited proficiency among middle school learners of English confirmed that less proficient learners do not benefit from dictionary use (Albus, Bielinski, Thurlow, & Liu, 2001). Therefore, learners and apply many other reading strategies to find out the word meaning. A study of limited proficiency among middle school learners of English confirmed that less proficient learners do not benefit from dictionary use (Albus, Bielinski, Thurlow, & Liu, 2001). So there should be an alternative that can help activate the learners’ prior knowledge of vocabulary and their creative thinking and the one which proves to be appropriate in this context is “guessing words meaning” from context because it is an important strategy for dealing with low frequency vocabulary in written texts.
Thus using text content to guess the word and the passage meaning is one of an necessary strategies for learner to start with reading comprehension. For Vietnamese learners of English in general and for young student at Phu Ninh secondary school in particular, reading is in some ways challenging due to the lack of socio-cultural, factual, and contextual knowledge of the target language. Especially, when these student are living in the deep country side where almost nothing concern about English. Beside, grade six is also the first time they had to deal with reading comprehension.
Therefore, one of the challenges of reading classes has been how to develop students’ strategies for dealing with unknown words in the reading text before they could deal with the whole text content. In a reading lesson of Phu Ninh secondary school, teachers often give students a list of words on the table with Vietnamese meanings. After copying all the words into their notebooks they will use those words to exploit the reading text. Sometimes teachers also asked students to look up all unfamiliar words on dictionaries before coming to class.
However, teacher did not provide them any basic reading skill to use. Student could do well with some first basic reading text: however reading text level slowly become more complicated. So, hardly did learners show improvements in comprehension scores when using a dictionary. Thus, reading strategies are needed to deal with the difficulties, starting with some basic skill such as skimming, scanning, guessing the meaning of words to understand to context first.
Reflecting on this problem with poor vocabulary and unfamiliar with reading strategies I decided to conduct this study project. By investigating the effective 2 reading strategies on student’s improvement ability, this study wishes to give teachers and students at Phu Ninh secondary school an opportunity to access more closely to those skills. I hope they can develop positive attitude and motivation towards reading habits for students and make them feel confident in their reading.3 Aims of the study The main aims of this research are to find out effective reading strategies for students of grade six and how to improve reading skills.4 Objectives of the study The main goals of this research are to find out the difficulties the grade six student encounters in their reading lesson and to work out effective reading strategies. Provide suggestions for grade six students to improve their reading skills.5 Research questions The study answers the following questions: What are the difficulties? What are the common reading strategies? What are the effective reading strategies? How to apply reading skill? 1.6 Scope of the study The students of grade six of Phu Ninh secondary school are chosen because after primary school grade six is the first grade that student start with reading comprehension and in which place English was not important.
Moreover, this study only concentrates on effective reading strategies.