VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES -------- HOÀNG THỊ TÂM THÀNH AN EVALUATION OF PRE-READING ACTIVITIES IN THE NEW TEXTBOOK TIENGANH 11 IN MOTIVATING AND IMPROVING STUDENT’S READING PERFORMANCE (ĐÁNH GIÁ CÁC HOA ̣T ĐỘNG TIỀN ĐỌC CỦA SÁCH GIÁO KHOA TIẾNG ANH 11 MỚI NHẰM TẠO ĐỘNG LƢ̣C VÀ NÂNG CAO KẾT QUẢ ĐỌC CỦA HỌC SINH) M.MINOR THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60.10 Hanoi, 2013 z VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES -------- HOÀNG THỊ TÂM THÀNH AN EVALUATION OF PRE-READING ACTIVITIES IN THE NEW TEXTBOOK TIENGANH 11 IN MOTIVATING AND IMPROVING STUDENT’S READING PERFORMANCE (ĐÁNH GIÁ CÁC HOA ̣T ĐỘNG TIỀN ĐỌC CỦA SÁCH GIÁO KHOA TIẾNG ANH 11 MỚI NHẰM TẠO ĐỘNG LƢ̣C VÀ NÂNG CAO KẾT QUẢ ĐỌC CỦA HỌC SINH) M.MINOR THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60.10 Supervisor: Phạm Thị Thanh Thùy, PhD. Hanoi, 2013 z DECLARATION This paper is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education. I confirm that this is my own research and that it has not been published or submitted for any other degrees. Student‟s signature Hoàng Thị Tâm Thành i z ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The graduation thesis could not have been fulfilled without help, encouragement, support of a number of people who all deserve my sincerest gratitude and appreciation.
First and foremost, it is with affection and appreciation that acknowledge my indebtedness and deepest thanks to Mrs. Pham Thi Thanh Thuy, PhD., my supervisor, who gave me a clear sighted guidance as well as invaluable suggestions, my thesis could not have come into being. I would be also grateful to two teachers of English, especially Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang and Ms.
Phan Thi Tuong Van as well as 11th form students in class of 11A3 and 11A5 at Dao Duy Tu high school in Thanh Hoa for answering my survey question, interviews and participating in the experiment teaching of applying adaptation of pre-reading activities in reading classes. Their enthusiastic participation has helped me a lot of finding out the effects of adapting activities for pre-reading stage in reading class on student‟s motivation and reading performance in order to suggest some ideas to use them effectively. I would also like to thank Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong, my colleague, for her precious advice from the beginning of this paper.
Last but not least, I should acknowledge my great gratitude to all my friends in Faculty of Post-Graduate Studies, University of Languages and International Studies, and my family for their understanding, encouragement, assistance as well as financial supports during the process of preparing this graduation paper. ii z ABSTRACT This research investigated whether adaptation of pre-reading activities increased the classroom motivation, involvement as well as reading performance of learners at an upper-secondary school. The main methods were employed in this study namely document analysis, students survey questionnaire, teachers interview, classroom observation and pre-test post-test experimental design. Eighty four students selected from two classes (11A3 was employed as the control group and 11A5 as the experimental group) at Dao Duy Tu high school were used for the study.
The students selected were made up of both male and female. The findings revealed that pre-reading activities in the textbook were too monotonous to get students involved in the reading lesson. Students and teachers were not in favor of these activities available in the current textbook. Also, adaptation of textbook activities would be helpful in increasing the students‟ motivation in pre-reading stage and better comprehension can be gained through exposure to pre-reading activities.
The study recommended that teachers could use pre-reading activities as a useful tool to facilitate students‟ motivation and reading comprehension performance. It also could be suggested that teachers should change some inappropriate pre-reading activities of students‟ interests in the reading class to get them join in those activities with great eagerness. iii z LISTS OF ABBREVIATIONS TTT: Teacher talking time STT: Students talking time T: Teacher Ss: Students EFL: English foreign language Df: Degree of freedom T: Test M: Mean Std Dev.: Standard Deviation Sig.