VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ************************* VŨ QUỲNH ANH AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INFLUENCE OF USING LISTENING STRATEGIES ON LISTENING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: AN EXAMPLE OF SECOND BACHELOR’S DEGREE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, HANOI UNIVERSITY NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ SỰ ẢNH HƯỞNG CỦA ỨNG DỤNG CHIẾN LƯỢC NGHE TRONG KỸ NĂNG NGHE TRONG VIỆC PHÁT TRIỂN KĨ NĂNG NGHE CỦA SINH VIÊN VĂN BẰNG HAI KHOA TIẾNG ANH TẠI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC HÀ NỘI M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY Code: 60 14 0111 HA NOI - 2015 z VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ************************* VŨ QUỲNH ANH AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INFLUENCE OF USING LISTENING STRATEGIES ON LISTENING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: AN EXAMPLE OF SECOND BACHELOR’S DEGREE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, HANOI UNIVERSITY NGHIÊN CỨU VỀ SỰ ẢNH HƯỞNG CỦA ỨNG DỤNG CHIẾN LƯỢC NGHE TRONG KỸ NĂNG NGHE TRONG VIỆC PHÁT TRIỂN KĨ NĂNG NGHE CỦA SINH VIÊN VĂN BẰNG HAI KHOA TIẾNG ANH TẠI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC HÀ NỘI M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY Code: 60 14 0111 Supervisor: DR.NGUYỄN THỊ MINH TÂM HA NOI - 2015 z DECLARATIONS I, Vũ Quỳnh Anh, hereby certify that the thesis entitled “An Investigation into the Influence of Using Listening Strategies on Listening Skills Development: An Example of Second Bachelor’s degree Students in English Department, Hanoi University ” is the result of my own research in the fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts at Faculty of Post Graduate Studies — University of Languages and International Studies, VNU, Hanoi and this thesis has not been submitted for any degree at any other university or institution. Vũ Quỳnh Anh Hanoi, September 2015 i z ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to express my special gratitude to my supervisor Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Tam for her valuable advice and insightful guidance at every stage of the completion of this thesis. I am also grateful to my lecturers at the Department of Post-Graduate Studies- University of Foreign Languages and International Studies-National University, Hanoi for their useful and interesting lectures which laid the foundation for this thesis.
Last but not least, my special thanks also go to second bachelor’s degree students at 7VB13, Hanoi University who participated in this study. Without them, this research would not have been possible. ii z ABSTRACT In the past, listening was viewed as passive process which could come along naturally without assistance. In fact, listening is active process which involves a variety of mental processes.
This study was designed to investigate the influence of using listening strategies on students’ listening skills development. The participants in the study were 24 first year students who were attending the second bachelor’s degree course at Hanoi University. The participants went through an eight-week listening strategy instruction section in metacognition which focused on planning, monitoring, evaluating. From data collected through Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ), pre-test and post test, semi-structured interview, the study yielded results indicating that the work carried out had an impact.
iii z LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Page Figure 1: Cycle of Action Research 14 Figure 2: The model of action research proposed by Kemmis & 15 McTaggart Table 1: Records of students’ score in the previous final test 21 Table 2: Explicit Listening Strategy Instruction Sections 23 Table 3: Planning and evaluation strategies 27 Table 4: Directed attention strategies 28 Table 5: Person knowledge 29 Table 6: Mental Translation 30 Table 7: Problem Solving 31 Table 8: A detailed lesson plan of a listening strategy instruction 31 section Table 9: Comparison of the means and standard deviation between 35 pre-test and post-test 36 Table 10: The results of paired sample t-test for pre-and post-test iv z TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declarations……………………………………………………………………………….iii List of charts .iv Table of contents .vii PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Background to the study and statement of problem.Statement of problem…………………………………………………………. Aim of the study……………………………………………………………………. Scope of the study …………………………………………………………….
Significance of the study ………………………………………………………. Organization of the study ………………………………………………………….4 PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER ONE: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Models of Listening comprehension………………………………………. Listening Comprehension Strategies……………………………………………….