BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH-ANH Sinh viên: Đàm Thị Minh Tâm Giảng viên hướng dẫn: Th.s Đặng Thị Vân HẢI PHÒNG – 2023 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- A STUDY ON DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY THE 2ND YEAR STUDENTS AT HAI PHONG UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY WHEN READING NEWS IN ENGLISH KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP ĐẠI HỌC HỆ CHÍNH QUY NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Đàm Thị Minh Tâm Giảng viên hướng dẫn : Th.s Đặng Thị Vân HẢI PHÒNG – 2023 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG -------------------------------------- NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Sinh viên : Đàm Thị Minh Tâm Mã sinh viên : 1912771002 Lớp : NA2301A Chuyên ngành : Ngôn Ngữ Anh-Anh Tên đề tài : A study on difficulties encountered by the 2nd year students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology when reading news in English NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI 1. Nội dung và các yêu cầu cần giải quyết trong nhiệm vụ đề tài tốt nghiệp. Các số liệu cần thiết để thiết kế, tính toán. Địa điểm thực tập tốt nghiệp.
CÁN BỘ HƯỚNG DẪN ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Họ và tên : Th.s Đặng Thị Vân Cơ quan công tác : Trường Đại học Quản lý và Công nghệ Hải Phòng Nội dung hướng dẫn: A study on difficulties encountered by the 2nd year students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology when reading news in English 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 Giảng viên hướng dẫn Đàm Thị Minh Tâm Đặng Thị Vân Hải Phòng, ngày. tháng… năm… XÁC NHẬN CỦA KHOA 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: Th.s Đặng Thị Vân Đơn vị công tác: Trường Đại Học Quản lý và Công nghệ Hải Phòng Họ và tên sinh viên: Đàm Thị Minh Tâm Chuyên ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh-Anh Nội dung hướng dẫn: A study on difficulties encountered by the 2nd year students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology when reading news in English 1. Tinh thần thái độ của sinh viên trong quá trình làm đề tài tốt nghiệp …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… 2. 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…) ……………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………… 3.
Ý kiến của giảng viên hướng dẫn tốt nghiệp Được bảo vệ Không được bảo vệ Điểm hướng dẫn Hải Phòng, ngày 15 tháng 06 năm 2023 Giảng viên hướng dẫn (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên) ACKNOWLEDGEMNTS In the process of completing my graduation thesis, I would like to thank my teachers, friends, and family - who have always been by my side to encourage me and give me the most useful advice. First of all, I would like to thank all the teachers of Foreign Language Department of Hai Phong University of Management and Technology for their suggestions to my paper, and helped me through the last four year of school. Especially, I would like to express my sincere to Ms. Dang Thi Van, the supervisor of this graduation paper.
She also provided me with many useful resources as well as words of encouragement, detailed comments and helpful advice that helped me complete this research paper. Next, I would to thank all the second - year students at HPU who helped me complete the survey questionnaires. Last but not least, my sincere thanks would go to my family and friends, who have always encouraged and supported me during the time I completed this study. Hai Phong, June, 2023 Dam Thi Minh Tam i TABLES OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMNTS.
i TABLES OF CONTENT. ii PART I: INTRODUCTION. Aim of the study. Scope of the study.
Method of the study. Design of the study. 2 PART II: DEVELOPMENT. 3 CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW.
Theoretical background of reading. Definition of reading. Types of reading skills. Difficulties in learning the reading skills.
Theoretical background of News. Definition of News. Types of News. Difficulties in reading news in English.
16 CHAPTER II: METHODOLODY. Data collection procedure. 19 CHAPTER III: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION. Difficulties encountered by second-year students at HPU when reading news in English.
Some suggested solutions to solve difficulties when reading news in English by second-year students at HPU. 26 PART III: CONCLUSION. 28 I: Summary of the study. 28 II: Limitations of the study.
28 III: Suggestions for the further study. 33 iii PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Nowadays, people are very interested in television and newspapers because of the need to update news quickly as well as the change of science and technology. News and media are interested by many people, especially young people today.
The latest information from abroad is always updated continuously, and this is also one of the most interested topics for all of us. It helps us to update and capture important information about every issue, every aspect of life around us. Not only can we read domestic news, but we can also read news in English on foreign newspapers. Reading news in English can help students improve their overall English level and benefit them in the future lives.
However, reading news in English is also very difficult for students, because their English level is still limited. Before conducting this survey, we collected opinions from several students from different classes about their reading of news in English, we found out that most of the students encountered different difficulties. For second-year students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology, although all students have been learning English for at least a few years, the students still often have difficulty reading news in English, since they still lack vocabulary, grammar, reading skills and poor background knowledge. Therefore, it is very important to identify students' difficulties.
For the above reasons, I decided to choose a research topic with the title: “A study on difficulties encountered by the 2nd year students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology when reading news in English. Aim of the study. The purpose of the study is to find out some difficulties encountered by second - year students in HPU when reading News in English. Give solutions to help students overcome their problems.
Research Questions To achieve the purpose of the study, the author focus on answering the following two research questions: 1. What are the difficulties of reading news in English for second-year students at HPU? 2. What is the solution for second-year students at HPU to overcome difficulties when reading news in English? 1. Scope of the study.
In this study, the author only focuses on second-year students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology to investigate the difficulties often encountered when reading news in English and from there give some suggestions to overcome the detected difficulties. The study participants included 24 second- year students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology. Method of the study. This study was carried out based on the basis of quantitative research method in which questionnaire was chose as the main research tool.
The questionnaire is designed to help the author evaluate more objectively. Each student was given a questionnaire with hope of finding out the difficulties they encountered when reading news in English. Analyze statistical data collected from survey questionnaires after being collected from second-year non-major students at Hai Phong University of Management and Technology. Design of the study.
This thesis consists of three main parts organized as follows: Part I: is the Introduction, which present the rationale, the research questions, the scope, the objective, the method, and the designs of the study. Part II: is the Development: includes three chapters. + Chapter 1: The researcher provides some of the concepts most relevant to the research topic. 2 + Chapter 2: General description of participants, data collection instruments, and data collection procedures.
+ Chapter 3: Analysis of the following results obtained by questionnaires by second-year students at HPU, and proposed solutions. Part III: is the Conclusions of the study: summarize the main findings and discussion, the limitations and recommendations for further study. PART II: DEVELOPMENT 3 CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW I. Theoretical background of reading I.
Definition of reading. For those learning foreign languages in general and learning English in particular, reading skills are especially important. Reading not only expands knowledge about culture - society but it also provides knowledge about language, besides it also supports other skills such as writing, speaking and listening. There are many shares about the concept of reading by linguists and educators: According to William, E.
(1990: 2) that “reading is a process whereby one looks at and understands what has been written”. In his definition, in the process of reading, two activities take place at the same time: seeing and understanding. Therefore, the reader must "convert" the meaning of a word according to the context that the author wants to convey. Smith (1985: 102) further shared that “reading is understanding the author's thought ".
This also means that the reader needs to know the author's thoughts, not the author's words or words in the text. Reading is process of receiving meaning through decoding signs (letters, signs). If the reader only understands the words printed in the text but does not understand the thoughts of the author, then their reading becomes useless. Because the meaning of a word often revolves around, depends heavily on the context in which it occurs, and the reader cannot understand the word in isolation.
According to Burt, Peyton & Adams (2003) pointed out in their overall study “Reading is basically the process of getting information from written language” (p. It means that, when someone reads any text, decipher the written words on the page, and decide their meanings and their relationships. Their also think about what their are reading, how it connect to other things their have read before and 4 to things their already know. Other readers will develop different interpretations of the meaning of a text.
In addition Kalayo and Fauzan (2007: 114) states that “Reading is an activity with purpose”. Reading helps persons to collect information or basic knowledge available and it can be used to censure the ideas of writer in texts. Then, readers will be easy to choice the texts. In summary, the perspectives of researchers give different definitions of "Reading ".
In my opinion, for those who learn any language, regardless of skill, it is very important. But in terms of reading skills, it directly affects the language learners' writing, knowledge, understanding, and vocabulary. It can be concluded that "Reading" is a process of gathering the necessary information in the text as efficiently as possible. In the process of reading, the reader plays an important role that requires high concentration, a positive attitude, and should not be too passive in the reading process to obtain the necessary information and knowledge.
Therefore, in order to understand “What is reading”, inferring from the above definitions, it can be concluded that reading is a positive skill for receiving information, in which the reader is extremely important in analyzing the text to perform the communication functions. The reading process is the sequential model in the reasoning process of absorbing, understanding, assess, and recollection what is written in a text. The process of reading a text is divided into three stages: pre-reading, while- reading and post-reading.