VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ****** ****** PHẠM THỊ NGUYỆT THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN READING TEXTS OF THE TEXTBOOK TIẾNG ANH 10, BOOK 1: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS. Phân tích sự tiến triển đề ngữ trong các bài đọc trong sách giáo khoa Tiếng Anh 10, tập 1 theo đường hướng chức năng hệ thống.A THESIS FIELD : ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CODE : 8220201.01 Hanoi, 2018 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ****** ****** PHẠM THỊ NGUYỆT THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN READING TEXTS OF THE TEXTBOOK TIẾNG ANH 10, BOOK 1: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS. Phân tích sự tiến triển đề ngữ trong các bài đọc trong sách giáo khoa Tiếng Anh 10, tập 1 theo đường hướng chức năng hệ thống.A THESIS FIELD : ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CODE : 8220201. Nguyen Thi Minh Tam Hanoi, 2018 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION I, Pham Thi Nguyet, hereby declare that the thesis entitled ―Thematic progression in reading texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1: A systemic functional analysis.‖ reports the result of the study conducted by myself.
The thesis is submitted to College of Foreign Languages-Vietnam National University for Degree of Master in TESOL. I also state that the substance of the thesis has not, wholly or in part, been submitted for any degree to any other universities or substitutions. Signature Pham Thi Nguyet Approved by SUPERVISOR Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Tam Date:…………………… i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis could not have been completed without the help and support from a number of people.
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere thankfulness to my supervisor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Tam for his persistent consideration, enthusiastic encouragement and invaluable supervision throughout my process of writing this thesis. Secondly, I would like to thank all lecturers and the staff of Faculty of Post Graduate Studies, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi for their useful lectures, materials, guidance and enthusiasm during my course. Last but not least, I would like to show my deepest gratitude to my family and friends who are always supporting me with their sympathy and encouragement.
ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT Thematic progression is a salient aspect in the study of Systemic Functional Linguistics(SFL) as it can function as a cohesive tie that is an important way to organize texts. It combines the thematic structure and textual coherence, revealing the dynamic distribution of theme and rheme in the discourse and the organization form of the discourse. As the carrier of information, guidance and structure, texts are regarded as essential teaching and learning materials. The importance of texts has drawn the attention of writers, teachers and learners.
Thus, this paper aims to analyze the theme structure and thematic progression patterns in non-conversational texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1 to find out the preferred theme structures and thematic progression patterns. The findings of this investigation indicate that the most frequent theme and thematic progression pattern are simple theme and constant theme. Obviously, there are some inner relations between thematic structure and thematic progression patterns and the topics of the texts and genres. Different topics and different genres have their preferred thematic structure and thematic progression patterns.
The results of this study may be facilitative in composing coherent and cohesive texts and helping writers and readers understand the inner structure of texts deeply for effective writing. Keywords: Theme, Rheme, Thematic progression, Thematic progression patterns iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Cont. : Separation SFL : Systemic Functional Linguistics Synt. : Syntactic TP : Thematic Progression TPP : Thematic Progression pattern TPPs : Thematic Progression patterns iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION.
iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS .v LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES. Rationale of the study. Significance of Research.
Research aims and objectives. Methods of the study. Scope of the study. Design of the Study.
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW. The system of theme. Theme and rheme. Types of themes.
Definition of thematic progression. Thematic progression patterns. Data collection procedure. Data analysis procedure .17 v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION. The analysis of text 1. The analysis of text 2. The analysis of text 3.
The analysis of text 4. The analysis of text 5. The analysis of text 6. The analysis of text 7.
The analysis of text 8. The analysis of text 10. The analysis of text 11. The analysis of text 12.
The analysis of text 13. The analysis of text 14. The analysis of text 15. Answer to research question 1.
Answer to research question 2. Summary of the study. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further studies. Limitations of the study.
Suggestions for further studies .59 APPENDIX vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Figure 1: Examples of theme types. Thematic progression patterns used in this study. Theme selection in the corpus. Thematic progression patterns in the corpus.
Frequency of TPPs of text 1. TPPs of text 1. Frequency of TPPs of text 2. TPPs of text 2.
Frequency of TPPs of Text 3. TPPs of text 3. Frequency of TPPs of text 4. TPPs of text 4.
Frequency of TPPs of Text 5. TPPs of Text 5. Frequency of TPPs of Text 6. TPPs of Text 6.
Frequency of TP patterns of Text 7. TPPs of Text 7. Frequency of TPPs of Text 8. TPPs of Text 8.
Frequency of TPPs of Text 9. TPPs of Text 9. Frequency of TPPs of Text 10. TPPs of Text 10.
Frequency of TPPs of Text 11. TPPs of text 11. Frequency of TPPs of Text 12 .41 vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. TPPs of text 12.
Frequency of TPPs of Text 13. TPPs of text 13. Frequency of TPPs of Text 14. TPPs of Text 14.
Frequency of TPPs of text 15. TPPs of text 15.47 viii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Rationale of the study The study of thematic progression has been widely conducted. This may be due to its crucial contribution to the focus and the flow of information in a text (Carter-Thomas, 1999; Paltridge, 2006; Sade, 2007).
Thematic progression is a term which refers to ―the way in which the theme of a clause may pick up, or repeat, a meaning from a preceding theme or rheme‖ (Paltrigde, 2006, p. It has been said that the study of this topic is interesting because it is one of the factors that ―contribute to making a text a text, as it were‖ (Rørvik, 2003, p. Seeing the importance of thematic progression both in and outside academic setting, hence, more exploration and investigation of thematic progression will be interesting. The texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1 as any texts in the English textbooks used in upper-secondary schools in Vietnam, are written to tell stories or events, transmit ideas and thoughts, give explanations and ask and give advice.
In these cases, texts are one‘s own story, opinion or argument for or against an issue, explanations in a straightforward manner and informal letter. The specific sentence position (i., the connection of theme and rheme) in the texts can be the strategy of the writer to prime the readers‘ language. Thus, the selection of the texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1 was made for purposes of revealing the structure and packaging of the information in those texts. In other words, we aim at revealing their theme-rheme and thematic progression patterns in those texts.
Further, the study of thematic progression is worth researching since the results of the study can be beneficial to various fields of study including translation (Rorvik, 2003) and successful testing on Discourse Structure Test (DST) (Shieh & Lin, 2011). No less important than the previous studies, this research will also give good implication to the other field of knowledge, especially ‗writing‘. Specifically, the results of this study have implications for people to know how to write different types of texts through academic language conventions. Generally, the result of this study is also 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com beneficial to the book users including teachers and learners by helping them to consider thematic progression as an important factor in writing.
Besides, it is useful for the book compilers in appropriate text selection. Therefore, the study of thematic progression in the texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1 is necessarily done to enrich the linguistic landscape as well as teaching and learning. Significance of Research First and foremost, the study provides the researcher herself and all other MA students and linguistic researchers insights into the realization of theme and thematic progression in the texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1. This thesis could be of good reference to other students and researchers who are interested in doing research related to this topic.
Secondly, by studying themes and thematic progression patterns of reading texts in the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1, this thesis provides the book users, especially English teachers and learners a better view of the organization of the reading texts in the textbook. Thanks to it, teachers can have a full understanding of theme and thematic progression, basing on which they can develop suitable materials and learning activities to enhance students‘ comprehension of English texts and the cohesion of the texts students produce. Accordingly, students can improve their skills in English all-sidedly. Last but not least, the study provides the book compilers the relations between thematic progression and the topic of the reading texts.
From that, they might take into consideration the thematic progression of the text as one factors in text selection. Research aims and objectives The aim of this research is to investigate thematic progression in reading texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1. To achieve the above aims, the present study attempts to set the following objectives: - To investigate the distribution of themes in the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com for some senior high schools in Vietnam on the first semester. - To investigate thematic progression in reading texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1.
- To see the relations between thematic progression patterns and the topics of the reading text. Research questions This research tries to explore thematic progression in the selected textbook tittled Tiếng Anh 10, book 1 for some senior high schools in Vietnam on the first semester. The areas of investigation that formulated in the following research bellow two questions about this research: 1. What is the realization of thematic progression in the reading texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1? 2.
What are the possible relations between thematic progression patterns and the topics of the reading texts? 5. Methods of the study This study is a discourse analysis in systemic functional approach. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are applied in this research. The analysis is based on theoretical framework of Halliday (1994) and Dubois (1987).
Scope of the study This thesis focuses on a small investigation on thematic progression in reading texts of the textbook Tiếng Anh 10, book 1.