VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOT UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST — GRADUATE STUDIES DANG THUY HANG ASTUDY ON THE TEACHERS’ TEACHING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING THE READING SKILLS OF FRESHMEN AT HANOT COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 HANOT, 2014 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOT UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES DANG THUY HANG ASTUDY ON THE TEACHERS’ TEACHING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING ‘THE READING SKILLS OF FRESHMEN AT LLANOL COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS (Nghiên cứu các fhủ thuật dạy học của giáo viên nhằm nâng cao kỹ năng đọc cho sinh viên năm thứ nhất tại trưởng Cao đẳng Kinh tế Công nghiệp Hà Nội) MLA MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Cade: 601401 11 Supervisor: Dr. Tran Thị Thu Hiền HANOI, 2014 DECLARATION I, Dang Thuy Hang, hereby certify that this minor thesis emitled “4 study on the teachers’ teaching techniques for improving the reading skills of freshmen at Hanoi College of Industrial Economics” is the result of my own research in the fulfillment. of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts al Faculty of Post. Graduate Studies - University of Languages and International Studies — Victnam National University, Hanoi.
Hanoi, April 2014 Signature Đặng Thủy Hằng, FABLE OF CONTENTS. a Acknowledg it Abstract - ¬ 1List of abbreviations. - cocci viii List of tables and figures PART A: INTRODUCTION. Rationale of the study.
2, Aims of the study. 4, Scope of the study 5, Methodology. Significance of the study. 7, Structure of the study PART B: DEVELOPMENT.
Chapter 1: LITERATURE REVIEW. An overview of the nature of reading skills 6. The importance of reading in foreign language teaching and learning. Teaching reading skÏlls.
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Factors affecting teaching and learning reading LBL, The reading tent. cccec cece cites icine cence ct neses ssn Ld 41. co dành HHnh như wh 1. co de ta nà nh nh nh nano 16 Chapter 2: THE STUDY.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, CLT: Communicative language teaching EEL: English as foreign language ESL: English as second language ESP: English for specific purposes HCIE: Hanoi College of Industrial Economics NCLRC: National Capital Language Resource Center NHWP: New headway pre-inlermediale OU: Open University Ss: Students Ts: Teachers ULIs, VNUH: University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, CLT: Communicative language teaching EEL: English as foreign language ESL: English as second language ESP: English for specific purposes HCIE: Hanoi College of Industrial Economics NCLRC: National Capital Language Resource Center NHWP: New headway pre-inlermediale OU: Open University Ss: Students Ts: Teachers ULIs, VNUH: University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi ABSTRACT This study investigates the real situation of teaching and learning reading skills at HCIE for freshmen and providing some suggested reading teaching techniques for the teachers to help teachers and students teach and leam reading skills more effectively. To attain these objectives, three kinds of instruments are applied such as survey queslionnaire, observation and semi- interview. Ten English leachers and one hundred students are selected to be participants of the survey. Necessary data are gathered using questionnaires for both studems and teachers.
Contributing to these data, observation is used to get useful information al CKX12.8 where is expenmenied some effective teacher’s teaching techniques. In addition, five teachers are randomly chosen to give their opinions about their real teaching experience, difficulty and solutions. From the findings, the study depicts that while students are passive and demotivated in learning, the teachers’ techniques are dominated by traditional approach which are not effective enough to improve students’ reading skills. Basing on the rescarch’s results, some recommendations for the students, the teachers and the authorities are stated.
In conclusion, this study's findings contributes a better understanding of teaching and learning reading techniques in general and teachers” reading, techniques in particular; however, some debatable points are avoidable in this thesis. Teachers and teaching methods.3, Students and their background English hnơwlelge.3, Data cullection procedure. The survey questionnaires. 2 The class observation .3, The semi-interview.
To the students. To the teachers. Te the authorities. 2, Limitations and Suggestions for further studics.
Teachers and teaching methods.3, Students and their background English hnơwlelge.3, Data cullection procedure. The survey questionnaires. 2 The class observation .3, The semi-interview. To the students.
To the teachers. Te the authorities. 2, Limitations and Suggestions for further studics. FABLE OF CONTENTS.
a Acknowledg it Abstract - ¬ 1List of abbreviations. - cocci viii List of tables and figures PART A: INTRODUCTION. Rationale of the study. 2, Aims of the study.
4, Scope of the study 5, Methodology. Significance of the study. 7, Structure of the study PART B: DEVELOPMENT. Chapter 1: LITERATURE REVIEW.
An overview of the nature of reading skills 6. The importance of reading in foreign language teaching and learning. Teaching reading skÏlls. -- -- ‹s cv nen ghe C, 1.
The objectives and goals of teaching readin 7 122. The reading teaching? learuing approacl§. Techniques for teaching reading. Factors affecting teaching and learning reading LBL, The reading tent.
cccec cece cites icine cence ct neses ssn Ld 41. co dành HHnh như wh 1. co de ta nà nh nh nh nano 16 Chapter 2: THE STUDY. ABSTRACT This study investigates the real situation of teaching and learning reading skills at HCIE for freshmen and providing some suggested reading teaching techniques for the teachers to help teachers and students teach and leam reading skills more effectively.
To attain these objectives, three kinds of instruments are applied such as survey queslionnaire, observation and semi- interview. Ten English leachers and one hundred students are selected to be participants of the survey. Necessary data are gathered using questionnaires for both studems and teachers. Contributing to these data, observation is used to get useful information al CKX12.8 where is expenmenied some effective teacher’s teaching techniques.
In addition, five teachers are randomly chosen to give their opinions about their real teaching experience, difficulty and solutions. From the findings, the study depicts that while students are passive and demotivated in learning, the teachers’ techniques are dominated by traditional approach which are not effective enough to improve students’ reading skills. Basing on the rescarch’s results, some recommendations for the students, the teachers and the authorities are stated. In conclusion, this study's findings contributes a better understanding of teaching and learning reading techniques in general and teachers” reading, techniques in particular; however, some debatable points are avoidable in this thesis.
iti PART A: INTRODUCTION L Rationale On the road of integrating and developing in Vietnam, English is quite important to Jeamers, The teaching and leammg, of English is paying much more attention by both teachers and learners. Nowadays, a lot of universities require their students to leam Inglish as one of their general sulyects. In order to master English, students have to try their best to develop the English skills such as listening, speaking, writing and reacling. There have been debates on the topic: which skill in English teaching and leerning is the most important? There are some who stale whal they need is only speaking English ÍTuerly.
Some disagrce with that idea. They consider writing is vital because documenting reports, letters, ete are what they daily deal with in their work and life. In contrast, there are slill some who propose listening is more important. for the realization of their goal.
However, among these skills, acvording to the writer, reading is the most important one because it helps not only develop other skills but also provides leamers knowledge of the target language. Reading is also benefit for the students in a lot of aspects in acquaintance of a new language. ‘this topic interests a lot of researchers to put their passion on. One of the famous scholars whose reputation is not able to feaget Grellet (1981) with his famous book on reading such as “Developing reading skills” Tn addition, many Vietnamese authors and researchers pay much attention to this issue.
For example “4 study an how to improve the teaching of reading English in Economics to the 2 year students al Hanoi national Fconomies University” by Trang (2005) refers to reading skill in Economies only, and “A study on how to improve ESP reading skills for the studenis of Information Technology” mainly focuses on reading skills for Information Technology students by Huong (2003). Hop (2008) also concerns this topic in her MA thesis “hmproving reading skills of Post Graduate Students at College of Natural Sciences, VNU by developing the reading materials”. Although this subject gains a lot of interest from researchers and linguistics, there have not been any researchers who does research on the teacher’s reading techniques. ‘I'his is one of the main reasons which raises the interest for the author to do this research.
-1- LIST OF TABLES AND FINGURES Table 1: Students’ and teachers’ attitude toward the course book (p 23) Table 2: Students’ altitude toward the reading activities (p 24) Table3: Students’ attitude toward the teacher's techniques and preferring techniques (p 25) Table 1: Teachers’ technique of combination and its efficiency (p 26) ‘Table 5: Teachers’ responses concerning Pre-reading, activities (p 26) Table 6. Teachers’ responses conceming While-reading activitics (p 27) Table 7: Teachers’ responses conceming Post-reading activities (p 28) Table 8: Students’ and teachers’ attitude toward supplementary texts (p 29) vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, CLT: Communicative language teaching EEL: English as foreign language ESL: English as second language ESP: English for specific purposes HCIE: Hanoi College of Industrial Economics NCLRC: National Capital Language Resource Center NHWP: New headway pre-inlermediale OU: Open University Ss: Students Ts: Teachers ULIs, VNUH: University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi PART A: INTRODUCTION L Rationale On the road of integrating and developing in Vietnam, English is quite important to Jeamers, The teaching and leammg, of English is paying much more attention by both teachers and learners. Nowadays, a lot of universities require their students to leam Inglish as one of their general sulyects. In order to master English, students have to try their best to develop the English skills such as listening, speaking, writing and reacling.
There have been debates on the topic: which skill in English teaching and leerning is the most important? There are some who stale whal they need is only speaking English ÍTuerly. Some disagrce with that idea. They consider writing is vital because documenting reports, letters, ete are what they daily deal with in their work and life. In contrast, there are slill some who propose listening is more important.
for the realization of their goal. However, among these skills, acvording to the writer, reading is the most important one because it helps not only develop other skills but also provides leamers knowledge of the target language. Reading is also benefit for the students in a lot of aspects in acquaintance of a new language. ‘this topic interests a lot of researchers to put their passion on.
One of the famous scholars whose reputation is not able to feaget Grellet (1981) with his famous book on reading such as “Developing reading skills” Tn addition, many Vietnamese authors and researchers pay much attention to this issue. For example “4 study an how to improve the teaching of reading English in Economics to the 2 year students al Hanoi national Fconomies University” by Trang (2005) refers to reading skill in Economies only, and “A study on how to improve ESP reading skills for the studenis of Information Technology” mainly focuses on reading skills for Information Technology students by Huong (2003). Hop (2008) also concerns this topic in her MA thesis “hmproving reading skills of Post Graduate Students at College of Natural Sciences, VNU by developing the reading materials”.
