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 : Vũ Thái Dương Giảng viên hướng dẫn : Ths. Phan Thị Mai Hương HẢI PHÒNG 07– 2021 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- AN INVESTIGATION INTO DIFFICULTIES SECONDARY STUDENTS ENCOUNTER IN UNDERSTANDING PHRASAL VERBS KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP HỆ CHÍNH QUY NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH - ANH Sinh viên : Vũ Thái Dương Giảng viên hướng dẫn : Ths. Phan Thị Mai Hương HẢI PHÒNG 07 – 2021 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG -------------------------------------- NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Sinh viên: Vũ Thái Dương Mã SV: 1512751039 Lớp : NA1901A Ngành : Ngôn ngữ Anh - Anh Tên đề tài: An investigation into difficulites secondary students encounter in understanding phrasal verbs. NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI 1.
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Giảng viên hướng dẫn (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên) QC20-B10 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 viên chấm phản biện Được bảo vệ Không được bảo vệ Điểm phản biện Hải Phòng, ngày … tháng … năm. Giảng viên chấm phản biện (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên) QC20-B10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the process of carrying out my research, I had received a great deal of experiences, guidances and encouragements from my lecturers as well as my friends. First of all, I would like to express the deepest gratitude to my family, my friends as well as all of employees at Hai Phong Technology and Management University who have offered me the health, the energy, the support, the opportunity, and the knowledge in finishing this study.
Besides, I have the great appreciation for my supervisors Mrs. Phan Thi Mai Huong for her enormous helps and instructions in preparing and finishing this study. My grateful thanks devoted to all other lecturers of Hai Phong Technology and Management as well. Eventually, to be honest, I assume that this study is no definitely perfect.
Therefore, any comments and suggestions are indeed welcome for the improvement of this study. I hope this study will be helpful for me and all the readers as well as the great motivation for next researches. Hai Phong, July 3rd, 2021 Vũ Thái Dương ABSTRACT This research was created to investigate the difficulties encountered by secondary school students in understanding the English phrasal verbs. The researcher carried out this research at the secondary school Nguyen Ba Ngoc in Hai Phong city.
The objects of study were the secondary students in academic year 2021/2022. To collect the information, the test and interview were presented to a group of nine grade students that consisted of ten people. This investigation indicated that most of the students (6 students) obtained D (failed) and E (insufficient) score, a student obtained C (average) and two students got B (good score), but only one student obtained A (excellent). It proved that the proficiency of students in using phrasal verbs was fairly low.
The result of test indicated that the secondary students lack the awareness of English style and have the tendency to avoid learning and using phrasal verb. Additionally, the influence of mother also causes a huge challenge to secondary students. Accordingly, the secondary need to pay more attention to study phrasal verb. Besides, the result of the interview also showed that the semantic confusion and syntactic error or meaning confusion and word order error became two difficult aspects encountered by students in learning and understanding phrasal verbs.
In addition, the result of research pointed that English teachers at Nguyen Ba Ngoc secondary school also have to take account of and to beware of teaching phrasal verbs to the students. TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1 1. Aim of research 2 1. Significance of research 2 1.
Design of research 3 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW 4 2. Definitions of phrasal verb 4 2. Typical feature of phrasal verb 5 2. Types of phrasal verb 6 2.
Intransitive phrasal verbs 7 2. Inseparable phrasal verbs 8 2. Differences between phrasal Verb and prepositional verbs 8 2. Common difficulties of Students in Understanding phrasal verb 9 2.
Avoidance of phrasal verb 9 2. English style deficiency 10 2. Lack of collocational awareness 13 2. Influence of the first language 14 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY 16 3.
The steps to conduct this research 16 3. Participant of survey 16 3. Data collection method 16 3. Aim of test questions 17 3.
Aim of interview questions 18 CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION 20 4. Non-Numerical Analysis 21 4. Discussion 24 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 26 5. Suggestion 27 REFERENCE 49 APPENDICE 50 Appendix 1: Interview Transcript 50 Appendix 2: Instrument (Test) 57 Appendix 3 – Test Answer Sheet of Student 61 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.
Rationale Phrasal verb or two-word verb is a phrase that consists of a verb with preposition or adverb or both and have the multiple meaning. In addition, phrasal verbs are one of the elements of informal English which have figurative and literal meaning that cause a great deal of difficulties for student to understand and use all of its meanings if students are not knowledgeable about them. In order to overcome these difficulties, the English learners in particular and Vietnam students in specific have to pay more serious attention to study the phrasal verb. Nevertheless, most of them usually ignore the advantages of these phrasal verbs in language learning and avoid using them in spoken or written discourse.
I take the hook off the mouth of fish. I remove the hook from the mouth of fish. Two above sentences have the same meaning, but the one uses phrasal verb while the other one does not. The English learners usually have tendency to produce the second sentence than the first one, because using and understanding phrasal verb is considered to be a big challenge for them and the one-word verb is preferred.
It proved that the student encounters a great deal of difficulties in understanding phrasal verb. Because of those difficulties of phrasal verb, its popularity in English national and international test, it is necessary that the researchers should figure out the problems of student and find out the best learning method to help student overcome those difficulties. Additionally, teachers should come up with more effective methods of teaching phrasal verbs in order to help students. Not only for the foreign learners, but these problems of phrasal verb also happened to some Viet Nam students who learned English as the foreign language, especially is the students in Nguyen Ba Ngoc secondary school.
Therefore, this investigation is carried out to figure out the difficulties faced by students in understanding the English phrasal verbs and to give some important and helpful suggestions to solve their difficulties in understanding the phrasal verbs. Research question - What difficulties do the secondary school students often encounter in understanding English phrasal verbs? - How to help students overcome those difficulties in order to master phrasal verb? 1. Aim of research - My research focuses specially on investigation into the difficulties encountered by the secondary school students in learning English phrasal verbs and find the best resolutions of their problems. Method of the research In order to look for the answers to the research questions, the researcher collected data from the interview and test questionnaires.
First of all, for the test, the researcher selected the toughest questions regarding phrasal verb in English test papers of students and English teaching material of teachers in Nguyen Ba Ngoc secondary school to create the English test consisting of 40 questions. This test also is considered thoroughly by the teachers to ensure that it is suitable with the English level of secondary school student. Secondly, for the interview, the questions selected by researcher should be fairly simple so that students can answer them. This also helps researcher obtain the result as originally expected.
Significance of research The researcher expects that the teachers, students as well as the other researchers can take full advantage of the results of this investigation. For teacher The teachers can know the student’s level of proficiency and problems of student in master phrasal verb, so they can organize the more appropriate teaching materials and method For student The students can take advantage of the results of this investigation to improve their proficiency in using phrasal verbs and enrich their English vocabulary. Now that the tough English tests usually is inserted the questions concerning using phrasal verb. With the proficiency in using the phrasal verbs, the student not only can get better score in English examinations but they also can supplement them in daily conversation.
They can also enhance their speaking, 2 listening, reading and writing skill by using a lot of phrasal verbs. With more than one expression, they are be able to express one opinion in a lot of different ways. For other researchers The result of the study can be considered as useful material to carry out the additional researches on phrasal verbs since this research. Design of research This research is divided into five parts: Chapter I: Introduction This chapter presents an overview of study such as rationale, the aims, questions, structure, method and significance of study.
Chapter II: Literature review This chapter provides the general concepts, typical features, the classification and the importance of phrasal verb and indicates the difficulties of students in understanding phrasal verb. Chapter III: Methodology This chapter demonstrates research methodology Chapter IV: Research finding and discussion This chapter handles with research results and discussion Chapter V: Conclusion and suggestion This chapter summarizes all the obtained results from research and includes the conclusions and suggestion for students, teachers and other researchers. 3 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Definitions of phrasal verb In modern English, it is very usual to place prepositions or adverbs after certain verbs so as to obtain a variety of meaning.
For instances: Take + off = remove something or leave from ground to fly e.g: I take the hook off the mouth of fish Give + up = abandon (a habit or attempt) or stop trying to do something because of difficulty e.