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Luận văn thạc sĩ phân tích vnu ulis an investigation into some common errors in using auxiliary verbs made by first year, đánh giá thực trạng, chỉ ra hạn chế, đề xuất giải pháp

Trường đại học

Thai Nguyen University

Người đăng

Ẩn danh

Thể loại

Minor Thesis

2010

60
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Phí lưu trữ

30 Point

Mục lục chi tiết

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

1. PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Rationale of the study

1.2. Aims of the study

1.3. Significance of the study

1.4. Scope of the study

1.5. Method of the study

1.6. Design of the study

2. PART 2: DEVELOPMENT

2. CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Auxiliary verbs in English

2.2. Types of auxiliary verbs

2.3. Functions of auxiliary verbs

2.4. Sources of errors in using auxiliary verbs

2.5. English learners’ common auxiliary errors

2.5.1. Omission of auxiliary

2.5.2. Mis-ordering auxiliary

2.5.3. Confusion of auxiliary

2.5.4. Wrong subject-verb agreement

2.5.5. Addition of auxiliary

3. CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

4. CHAPTER 3: PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF THE DATA

4.1. Presentation of the data

4.1.1. The questionnaire for students

4.1.2. The questionnaire for teachers

4.1.3. The interview with teachers

4.1.4. The exercises for students

4.2. Discussion of the findings

4.2.1. Confusion of auxiliary

4.2.2. Omission of auxiliary

4.2.3. Wrong subject-verb agreement

4.2.4. Mis-ordering auxiliary

4.2.5. Addition of auxiliary

4.3. Implications for teaching auxiliary verbs

4.3.1. What teachers should take into consideration?

4.3.2. Suggested techniques for corrective feedback

4.3.3. Suggested solutions for practice

4.3.4. Suggestions for further research

APPENDICES

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THỊ PHƯƠNG HOA AN INVESTIGATION INTO SOME COMMON ERRORS IN USING AUXILIARY VERBS MADE BY FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Điều tra những lỗi thông thường trong sử dụng trợ động từ của sinh viên năm thứ nhất Khoa Công nghệ thông tin – Đại học Thái Nguyên M. MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60 14 10 HA NOI - 2010 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THỊ PHƯƠNG HOA AN INVESTIGATION INTO SOME COMMON ERRORS IN USING AUXILIARY VERBS MADE BY FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Điều tra những lỗi thông thường trong sử dụng trợ động từ của sinh viên năm thứ nhất Khoa Công nghệ thông tin – Đại học Thái Nguyên M. MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60 14 10 SUPERVISOR: NGUYỄN MINH CƯỜNG, M. HA NOI - 2010 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES ACKNOWLEDGMENT …………………………………………………………….……ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ……………………………………………………………. iii LIST OF TABLES …………………………………………………………………….……v LIST OF FIGURES ……………………………………………………………………….vi PART 1 INTRODUCTION .1 Rationale of the study.2 Aims of the study.3 Significance of the study .4 Scope of the study .5 Method of the study .6 Design of the study . 4 PART 2 DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Auxiliary verbs in English .1 Types of auxiliary verbs .1 Functions of auxiliary verbs .2 Sources of errors in using auxiliary verbs .3 English learners’ common auxiliary errors .1 Omission of auxiliary .2 Mis-ordering auxiliary .3 Confusion of auxiliary .4 Wrong subject-verb agreement .5 Addition of auxiliary . 13 iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3. 17 CHAPTER 3 PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF THE DATA 4. Presentation of the data .1 The questionnaire for students .2 The questionnaire for teachers .3 The interview with teachers .4 The exercises for students . Discussion of the findings .1 Confusion of auxiliary .1Omission of auxiliary .2 Wrong subject-verb agreement .3 Mis-ordering auxiliary .5 Addition of auxiliary .3 Implications for teaching auxiliary verbs……………………………………………….1 What teachers should take into consideration? .2 Suggested techniques for corrective feedback .3 Suggested solutions for practice .4 Suggestions for further research. 41 APPENDICES iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES Tables Titles Pages 1 Summary of respondents’ answers 17 2 Summary of teachers’ answers 22 3 Students’ errors in exercise 1 26 4 Students’ errors in exercise 2 27 v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF FIGURES Figures Titles Pages 1 Students’ purposes in learning English 19 2 Frequency of errors 19 3 Students’ attitudes toward the role of auxiliary 20 4 Frequency of auxiliary errors in different types of sentences 21 5 Students’ methods of learning auxiliary 21 6 Students’ sources of errors in using English auxiliary 22 7 Ratio of errors in using auxiliary 26 8 Errors in negative sentences 29 9 Errors in affirmative sentences 30 10 Errors in interrogative sentences 30 vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale of the study English has been considered an international language and used in many fields for years. It is, nowadays, widely recognized as the key language tool in the integrating process into the world. As English is used widely in many countries over the world, it has become the most popular means of communication. Thai Nguyen University, being a mountainous university, receives students mainly from the mountainous and rural areas where English is not improved considerably. Entering university, these students have to study English as a compulsory subject right from the first semester and they are evaluated with both communication skill and grammar knowledge. At the same time, they do not have a good basis of English from high school; therefore, they meet difficulty in learning the language and often make mistakes. In the FIT, English is a compulsory subject and is paid much attention to as it is essential in information and communication technology. As computer language is mainly English, students in FIT need English for their studies. Although the course book chosen to teach English to students in the FIT focuses on communicating skills, it is undeniable that grammar makes communication smoother and more proper. Further more, to better one‟s English, grammar is essentially important. In fact, many students spend a lot of time studying grammar; however, the verb is the area which they have much difficulty understanding and mastering. It is widely agreed that to students grammatical use is of substantial significance in order to perfect their language skills and it requires effective teaching and learning methods. Though teaching grammar nowadays does not play a requisite role as it was in the past because of communicating purpose, it is still important, especially at the elementary level of learning the language where English is a compulsory subject. Accordingly, there have been many studies in the area of students‟ grammatical errors. Lan (2005), Houng (2005), Ngat (2003), and Hai (2003) conducted researches on grammatical errors and among the errors they found were those in using auxiliaries. As can be seen, the role of grammar in English is realized. While grammar is important, the auxiliary is part of it. When learners learn the language, errors are unavoidable. The studies on grammatical errors show a certain number of errors in auxiliary verbs. However, 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com not many have chosen the auxiliary as the main focus in their research. In addition, from the writer‟s own experience in English teaching, she has observed a lot of difficulties in students‟ using English auxiliary verbs. Therefore, she would like to conduct a study on some common errors in using auxiliary verbs made by first-year students at Faculty of Information Technology - Thai Nguyen University. Hopefully, the research „An investigation into some common errors in using auxiliary verbs made by first-year students at Faculty of Information Technology - Thai Nguyen University‟ will be a contribution to better teaching and learning English in the FIT.2 Aims of the study. The aims of the study are: - To investigate the types of errors in using auxiliary verbs made by first-year students in The FIT-Thai Nguyen University. - To find out how students learn and use auxiliary verbs. - To find out the sources of the errors. - To give suggestions and solutions for reducing the errors and teaching and learning English more effectively. To achieve the aims of the study, the following questions are proposed: 1. What types of errors in using auxiliary verbs do the students often make? 2. What are the sources of the errors in using auxiliary verbs? 3. What should be done to help them reduce the errors in using auxiliary verbs? The research „An investigation into some common errors in using auxiliary verbs made by first-year students at Faculty of Information Technology - Thai Nguyen University‟ was conducted to find the answers to the questions above.3 Significance of the study During learners‟ process of learning English, errors are various and unavoidable. This study‟s purpose is to investigate the types of errors in using auxiliary verbs of first-year students in the FIT and the sources of the errors. Corder (1967) observes that errors tell teachers of language where and when learners need help, what sort of help learners need and what they should do to better acquire the language. Hopefully, the findings of the research on common errors in using auxiliary verbs by first- year students in The FIT will give teachers better awareness of students‟ problems, what 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com they should do to help students reduce the errors and what change should they need in their teaching methods to cover students‟ weak area.4 Scope of the study As elementary level is the basis and the starting point from which students understand and improve the language, I would like to study what difficulties students often meet with in this level. However, difficulties and errors are various; the study only focuses on the common errors in using auxiliary verbs made by first-years students in the FIT. The subjects of the research are the first-year IT students and the research is conducted at the end of the first semester of the academic year 2009-2010. When the errors and sources of errors are identified, solutions then can be given in hoping to improve the matter.5 Method of the study Although communicative skills receive much attention in teaching and learning English nowadays, a large number of studies reveal that grammar helps to form proper English utterances, which leads to agreeable communication. Therefore, there have been researchers who share the same interest in the usefulness and necessity of grammar and studied learners‟ grammatical errors. Bùi Thị Đào (2008) observes that 80% learners commit such errors as misuse of structures, misordering and misuse of auxiliary verbs. Therefore, this study would like to have a focus on common errors in using English auxiliary made by first-year students. The study uses the survey method as it is useful when a researcher wants to collect data on phenomena that cannot be directly observed and it is used to assess attitudes and characteristics of a wide range of subjects by sampling a population. The subjects of the study were 6 teachers of English and 100 first-year students in the FIT to investigate the common errors in using English auxiliary verbs. The study used questionnaires, exercises and interviews to collect data. The questionnaires were delivered to 100 students and 6 teachers of English in the FIT to investigate their attitudes towards auxiliary teaching and learning, and their experience and difficulties in learning and teaching auxiliaries. Exercises were also designed and delivered to students to study the errors they would make. There are 2 different exercises on the exercise sheet. 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com The interviews were conducted with teachers for their ideas about role of auxiliary verbs, how they teach auxiliary verbs, what errors their students often make in using auxiliaries and what they do to help their students. The data collected were then analyzed and discussed.6 Design of the study The study consists of 3 part: Part 1: Introduction. The chapter gives an overview of the study. It states what will be studied, why and how the study should be done. Part 2: Devlopment Chapter 1: Literature review. The chapter reviews the theories and researches related to the study. Chapter 2: Research methodology. The chapter gives a brief view of the setting and participants. It also states how the study is done and how data are collected. Chapter 3: Presentation and discussion of the findings. The chapter presents and analyzes the data obtained in the study. It also suggests solutions to help students reduce errors in using auxiliaries. Part 3: Conclusion 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART 2 DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Auxiliary verbs in English 2.1 Types of auxiliary verbs The verb is an important part in a language and there are different ways to define it and different ways to classify it. In terms of function of items in the verb phrase, Quirk (1972) divides verbs into lexical verbs and auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary verbs can be subdivided into primary and modal auxiliaries. Lexical: walk, write, play, have…… Auxiliary Primary: do, have, be Modal: can, may, shall, will, could, might, should, would, must, ought to, used to, dare, need Thompson & Martinet (1986) divides verbs into auxiliary verbs and ordinary verbs. The Auxiliary verbs can be subdivided into principal auxiliaries, modal auxiliaries and semi- modal auxiliaries.

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