BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG ------------------------------- KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên: Lê Thị Ngọc Hà HẢI PHÒNG – 2023 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- INVESTIGATING HOW TO ENHANCE ENGLISH READINMG COMPREHENSION FOR THE ENGLISH MAJORED FRESHMEN AT HAI PHONG MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP ĐẠI HỌC HỆ CHÍNH QUY NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Lê Thị Ngọc Hà Giảng viên hướng dẫn: Th.s Nguyễn Thị Thu Huyền HẢI PHÒNG – 2023 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG -------------------------------------- NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Sinh viên: Lê Thị Ngọc Hà Mã SV: 1812751017 Lớp : NA2201A Ngành : Ngôn ngữ Anh Tên đề tài: Investigating how to enhance English reading comprehension for the English majored freshmen at Hai Phong Management and Technology University NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI 1. Nội dung và các yêu cầu cần giải quyết trong nhiệm vụ đề tài tốt nghiệp …………………………………………………………………………………. Các tài liệu, số liệu cần thiết …………………………………………………………………………………. Địa điểm thực tập tốt nghiệp ………………………………………………………………………………….
CÁN BỘ HƯỚNG DẪN ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Họ và tên : Nguyễn Thị Thu Huyền Học hàm, học vị : Thạc sỹ Cơ quan công tác : Trường Đại học Quản lý và Công nghệ Hải Phòng Nội dung hướng dẫn: Nghiên cứu về cách để nâng cao kỹ năng đọc cho sinh viên năm nhất tại trường Đại học Quản lý và Công Nghệ Hải Phòng Đề tài tốt nghiệp được giao ngày 07 tháng 11 năm 2022 Yêu cầu phải hoàn thành xong trước ngày 18 tháng 02 năm 2023 Đã nhận nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Đã giao nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Sinh viên Giảng viên hướng dẫn Lê Thị Ngọc Hà ThS. Nguyễn Thị Thu Huyền Hải Phòng, ngày 24 tháng 02 năm 2023 XÁC NHẬN CỦA KHOA CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc PHIẾU NHẬN XÉT CỦA GIẢNG VIÊN HƯỚNG DẪN TỐT NGHIỆP Họ và tên giảng viên: Nguyễn Thị Thu Huyền Đơn vị công tác: Trường Đại học Quản lý và Công nghệ Hải Phòng Sinh viên: Lê Thị Ngọc Hà Chuyên ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Nội dung hướng dẫn: Investigating how to enhance English reading comprehension for the English majored freshmen at Hai Phong Management and Technology University 1. Tinh thần thái độ của sinh viên trong quá trình làm đề tài tốt nghiệp. Đánh giá chất lượng của đồ án/khóa luận (so với nội dung yêu cầu đã đề ra trong nhiệm vụ Đ.N trên các mặt lý luận, thực tiễn, tính toán số liệu…).
Ý kiến của giảng viên hướng dẫn tốt nghiệp Được bảo vệ Không được bảo vệ Điểm hướng dẫn Hải Phòng, ngày … tháng … năm. Giảng viên hướng dẫn QC20-B18 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: Lê Thị Ngọc Hà Chuyên ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Đề tài tốt nghiệp: Investigating how to enhance English reading comprehension for the English majored freshmen at Hai Phong Management and Technology University 1. 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 hướng dẫn Hải Phòng, ngày … tháng … năm 2023 Giảng viên chấm phản biện QC20-B19 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to send my sincere thanks to all my teachers at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hai Phong Management and Technology University who have teached me basic knowledge to complete this study. I would like to acknowledge and give my warmest thanks to my supervisor Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen who made this work possible. Her guidance and advice carried me through all the stages of writing my project.
I would also like to thank my classmate your brilliant comments and suggestions, thanks to you. Last but not least, I would also like to give special thanks to my family as a whole for their continuous support and understanding when undertaking my research and writing my project i ABSTRACT Along with the development of today's society, English is a really necessary language. Especially speaking skills are used for daily communication as well as at work, students need to communicate more to have more job opportunities. It can be said that reading skills in English is the key to success.
Reading comprehension is one of the most important skills that you can possess in today’s world. Whether you are a student, a professional, or simply someone who wants to keep up with the news, being able to read and understand what you are reading is essential. Unfortunately, many people do not have strong reading comprehension skills. This can lead to all sorts of problems, from poor grades in school to missed opportunities in the workplace.
In this study, we will discuss how to go about improving this skill. ii TABLE CONTENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. ii TABLE CONTENT. Aims of the study.
Methods of the study. Scope of the study. Structure of the study. 2 PART II: DEVELOPMENT.
3 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND. Definitions of reading comprehension. The simple view of reading. Design of reading comprehension.
Types of reading. According to the ways of reading. The difficulty of reading comprehension. Challenges to reading comprehension.
Difficulties in understanding long sentence. Difficulties in using reading strategies. Difficulties in concentration. Difficulties in language problem.
Reading comprehension at first year university. 15 CHAPTER 2: DATA ANALYSIS, FINDING AND DISCUSSION. Find the right environment. Break reading into sections.
Highlight important information. Data collection instruments. Finding and discussion. Finding from test.
19 Chapter 3: Effective stratergies to improve reading comprehension. The acceptance after tests. For the students. For the teachers.
32 PART III: CONCLUSION. 39 PRE-TEST: READING COMPREHENSION. 48 POST-TEST: READING COMPREHENSION. 55 Pre-test Answer Key.
55 Post-test Answer Key. 56 LIST OF STUDENTS AND THEIR SCORES. Rationale Reading comprehension is one of the most important skills a person can have. It is essential for success in school and in the workplace.
Some reasons why reading comprehension is so important include: The ability to read and understand texts is essential for success in school. Good reading comprehension skills are necessary for understanding textbooks, lectures, and other class materials; The ability to read and understand texts is also important for success in the workplace. Employees who can read and comprehend instructions, memos, and other work-related documents will be more successful than those who cannot; Good reading comprehension skills also allow people to better understand the world around them. They can better follow the news, understand complex concepts, and make informed decisions.
Besides, reading aids in the development of some abilities that are useful in everyday life, such as checking the flight schedule while boarding a plane or searching for information on English-language television or publications. Also, it aids in understanding foreign cultures, interpersonal relationships, and social communication. They get more knowledgeable as they read more. They must successfully read English as a result.
Nonetheless, despite the pupils' best efforts, English reading is frequently seen as being challenging. Teaching children how to overcome obstacles is a must for instructors, but it is not a simple process. Aims of the study To point out how important reading for all intents and purposes skill kind of is in strudy, in work or even in actually daily life and really find out some challenges in reading then specifically give for all intents and purposes several of ways to generally improve Reading Skills in a very major way. Methods of the study The study essentially was definitely carried out based on quantitative research methods in which the questionnaire and tests literally were chosen as the tool, which mostly is quite significant.
Questionnaires and tests actually were designed as a basically means to basically make the researcher''s evaluation for all intents and purposes more objective. The questionnaires particularly were 1 given to the 40 students at Hai Phong Management and Technology University with the hope to generally find out the causes of difficulties in reading skills experienced by them and some kind of suggested solutions to their difficulties, fairly further showing how The study was literally carried out based on quantitative research methods in which the questionnaire and tests mostly were chosen as the tool in a very major way. Analyzing statistics from the survey questionnaire on reading activities specifically were conducted with the cooperation of class NA25 at my school. All comments, remarks recommendation assumptions, and conclusion provided in the study were based on the data analysis, or so they really thought.
Scope of the study Analyzing statistics from the survey questionnaire on reading activities specifically were conducted with the cooperation of class NA25 at my school in a particularly major way. Research kind of has provided and analyzed the data collected from the experiment to for the most part find the for all intents and purposes appropriate strategy to actually help students definitely improve their reading comprehension skills, particularly contrary to popular belief. Structure of the study This study is divided into three parts as follows: Part I: Introduction including rational, aims, methods, scope and design of the study. Part II: Development is separated from 3 chapters: Chapter 1: Theoretical background presenting a review of related literature about definitions of reading, type of reading, design of reading comprehension, reading strategies, the difficulty of reading comprehension, reading comprehension at first year university Chapter 2: Methodology discussing data source and some methods to complete this study Chapter 3: Find and discuss Part III: Conclusion is the last section to summary this study and to give some suggestions for the learners and further studies 2 PART II: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1.
Definitions of reading comprehension Reading comprehension is the application of a skill that evolved for other purposes (listening or oral comprehension) to a new form of input (text). Unlike listening comprehension, reading comprehension is not something for which our brains have evolved. Whereas oral comprehension seems to develop “naturally” with minimal deliberate intervention, reading comprehension is more challenging and requires deliberate instruction. Humans have been accomplished in oral comprehension for 100,000 years or more (Donald, 1991), and virtually all humans do it; reading comprehension has only been practiced for 5,000 years, and for most of that time the majority of humans did not do it (Olson, 1994).
It should not be surprising that reading comprehension is difficult. The application of comprehension to text amplifies our mental capacities. It is fundamental to full participation in society, now and for the foreseeable future. The simple view of reading Gough and Tunmer (1986) proposed the simple view of reading, in which reading comprehension is seen as the product of decoding and listening comprehension.
Though simple, this approach does a remarkably good job of accounting for the data (e., Johnston & Kirby, 2006; Joshi & Aaron, 2000), and it reminds us that the ability to decode words is absolutely essential for skilled reading; those with either very low decoding skills or very low oral comprehension skills will be poor reading comprehenders. Decoding or word reading is often the bottleneck that prevents readers from attaining higher or adequate text comprehension (see Figure 1). However, listening comprehension, which represents verbal ability, is also essential. Verbal ability is a key component of intelligence, and may be very difficult to improve through instruction; it includes knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, the ability to make inferences, and so on.