Nghiên cứu áp dụng phương pháp thể loại trong dạy viết IELTS cho sinh viên không chuyên tại Việt Nam

Luận văn thạc sĩ VNU ULIS nghiên cứu phương pháp genre trong giảng dạy IELTS Writing Task 2 cho sinh viên không chuyên tiếng Anh tại Việt Nam.

2016

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Phí lưu trữ

30 Point

Mục lục chi tiết

STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

CONTENTS

PART A. PART A: INTRODUCTION

A.1. Rationale of the Research

A.2. Aims, Scope, Methods, and Significance of the Study

A.2.1. Aims and Objectives

A.2.2. Scope of the Study

A.2.3. Significance of the Study

PART B. PART B: DEVELOPMENT

1. CHƯƠNG 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1. IELTS: the International English Language Testing System

1.2. Process-based approaches

1.2.1. Model of process-based approaches

1.2.2. Advantages and disadvantages of process-based approaches

1.3. Genre-based approaches

1.3.1. Model of genre-based approaches

1.3.2. Advantages and disadvantages of genre-based approaches

2. CHAPTER 2: THE CONTEXT OF THE STUDY AND THE RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS

2.1. The current situation of IELTS in Vietnam

2.2. IELTS in National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE)

2.3. The research participants

2.4. The writing IELTS Preparation course in NUCE

2.5. Data collection procedure

2.5.1. Data Collection Methods

2.5.2. Semi-structured interviews

2.5.3. Collection of students' writings throughout the program

2.6. Data Analysis Procedures

2.6.1. Data from observations and interviews

2.6.2. Data from the collection of student's writings

3. CHAPTER 3: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS

3.1. Findings and analysis

3.2. Students' perceptions of process-genre approach application

3.3. The effectiveness of process-genre approach on students' writings

3.4. Synthesis of the study's major findings

3.5. Limitations of the study

3.6. Suggestions for further studies

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES *************************** TRẦN THỊ THƠ AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY ON A PROCESS-GENRE APPROACH TO TEACHING IELTS WRITING TASK 2 TO NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT BAND 4.5 IN A VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY SETTING Nghiên cứu cải tiến sư phạm về việc áp dụng đường hướng kết hợp quá trình và dựa vào thể loại trong việc dạy viết luận IELTS, phần 2, cho sinh viên khối không chuyên tại một trường Đại học ở Việt Nam M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 HANOI-2016 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES *************************** TRẦN THỊ THƠ AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY ON A PROCESS-GENRE APPROACH TO TEACHING IELTS WRITING TASK 2 TO NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT BAND 4.5 IN A VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY SETTING Nghiên cứu cải tiến sư phạm về việc áp dụng đường hướng kết hợp quá trình và dựa vào thể loại trong việc dạy viết luận IELTS, phần 2, cho sinh viên khối không chuyên tại một trường Đại học ở Việt Nam M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Supervisor:Dr. Hoàng Thị Hạnh HANOI-2016 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Statement of Ownership I hereby declare that this thesis is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge, it contained no material previously published or written by another person (except where explicitly defined in the acknowledgements), nor material which has been submitted for the award of any degree or diploma of a university or other institutions of higher learning. Name: Trần Thị Thơ Date : 2016………………………………. i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Acknowledgements To complete this thesis, I owe profound indebtedness to many people for their enthusiastic help during the conduct of my research. I would like to give my sincere thanks to my supervisor, Dr. Hoang Thi Hanh, for her invaluable support, helpful guidance and considerable encouragement, which plays a highly significant part in the completion of this paper. Besides, I would like to send my heartfelt thanks to fourteen students in my class, who enthusiastically participated in the data collection process. In fact, without their help, I could not complete this thesis. Also, I owe a great debt of gratitude to my parents and my friends, who have constantly encouraged me during the time when I conducted my research paper. Last but not least, I would like to thank my readers for their interests and comments on this study. ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Abstract Writing instruction has become a field of increasing interest at higher education institutions in recent years. There have been numerous approaches to theteaching of writing in the history of language teaching and these have led to several paradigm shifts in the field. This study aimed to find out whether the implementation of the process-genre approach can improve students‟ writing ability and performance in IELTS writing task 2. The implementation of this approach in teaching and learning IELTS writing task 2 in a Vietnamese University was investigated through observation, interview and students‟ writing collections. The result indicates that this approach help to improve students‟ ability and performance in writing, including their understanding of the genre‟s purpose, the improvement of language and ideas. However, this improvement was proved to be only valid in particular genres and topics, in which students are prepared and provided with vocabulary and ideas, but not in a variety of topics in IELTS. Therefore, some suggestions and pedagogical implications were drawn out so that this approach could be applied most effectively. iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Contents Statement of Ownership . iii List of Abbreviations. vi List of tables and figures . vii PART A: INTRODUCTION . Rationale of the Research . Aims, Scope, Methods, and Significance of the Study . Aims and Objectives . Scope of the Study . Significance of the Study .4 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW . IELTS: the International English Language Testing System . Process-based approaches . Model of process-based approaches . Advantages and disadvantages of process-based approaches . Genre-based approaches . Model of genre-based approaches . Advantages and disadvantages of genre-based approaches . The Process Approach vs the Genre Approach . Integrating process and genre approaches to teaching writing . Process-genre approaches . Previous studies on the applications of process-genre approach to teaching L2 writing: findings and limitations .17 iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. The current situation of IELTS in Vietnam . IELTS in National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE) . The Context of the Study and the Research Participants. The research participants . The writing IELTS Preparation course in NUCE . Data collection procedure . Data Collection Methods . Semi-structured interviews . Collection of students‟ writings throughout the program . Data Analysis Procedures . Data from observations and interviews . Data from the collection of student‟s writings .25 CHAPTER 3: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS . Findings and analysis . Students‟ perceptions of process-genre approach application . The effectiveness of process-genre approach on students‟ writings . Synthesis of the study‟s major findings . Limitations of the study . Suggestions for further studies . I v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com List of Abbreviations AWL: Academic word list EFL: English as a foreign language EFC/C: error-free clause EFT/T: error-free T-unit IELTS: International English Language Testing System K1000: the most frequent 1000 word families K2000: the second 1000 most frequent words NUCE: National University of Civil Engineering vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com List of tables and figures Table 1: The writing IELTS Preparation Course, Task 2 .19 Figure 1: Task Achievement in Students‟ writings 35 Figure 2: Percentage of correct Reference, substitution and ellipsis, Conjunction and Lexical cohesion.38 Figure 3: Percentage of error-free T-unit and error-free clauses .40 Figure 4: The use of lexical resources .42 vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the Research Writing skill is deemed to be difficult for EFL students in the language learning (Richards, 1990). According to Richard and Renandya (2002), the difficulties include those in generating and organizing ideas, using an appropriate choice of vocabulary, sentence and paragraph organization and putting such ideas into an intelligible text. As for Vietnamese EFL students, besides these difficulties, they have to face many other obstacles when learning to write compositions in English, especially to non-English major students who are taking IELTS exams. In IELTS writing task 2, students are asked to respond to a topic by giving and justifying an opinion, discussing the topic, summarizing details, outlining problems, identifying possible solutions and supporting their ideas with reasons, arguments and relevant examples from their own knowledge or experience (IELTS Test Booklet, 2014). To non-English major students, it is even quite a challenge to make a sentence on their own, not to mention a short simple paragraph. As a consequence, the task of composing complicated essays like in IELTS writing task 2 become harder, which they rarely perform well. Although some approaches are applied in teaching writing such as process and genre-based, besides the merits, there are also some drawbacks in each of these approaches. The former helps learners to develop more effective ways of conveying meaning and to better comprehend the content that they want to express (Walsh, 2004). However, it has a very restricted view of writing, in which the practice of writing is identical regardless of what the topic is and who the writer or the reader is (Badger & White, 2000). The latter is seen as an extension of the product approach, in which the writing “varies with the social context in which it is produced” (Badger & White, 2000, p. 155), also critised because it may not requires students to express 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com their own ideas or may be too dependent on the teacher finding suitable materials as models (Caudery, 1998). With the hope to seek for ways that can enhance students‟ writing skills in IELTS task 2, especially of those who do not major in English, and lessen disadvantages of process and genre-based approach, the researcher would like to test whether the integrated approach of these two above which was developed by Badger & White (2000) could help students improve their writing and whether they find such approach effective. Aims, Scope, Methods, and Significance of the Study 2. Aims and Objectives This research tries to seek the possibilities to apply process-genre approach in teaching writing skills to non-English major students in IELTS preparation courses. While each approach has its own upsides and downsides in teaching application, the more effective one for writing needs is to incorporate the insights of these approaches (Badger & White, 2000). Also, this research aims to unpack the factors that effect students‟ writing performance. The above goals are specified into the following objectives:  To explore the perspectives of the students towards process-genre approach in learning IELTS writing task 2  To see whether the application of the process-genre approach to teaching writing IELTS task 2 to non-English major students is effective To achieve the above-stated aims and objectives, the study was designed to answer the following research questions: (1) What do students perceive about process-genre approach in learning writing IELTS writing task 2? 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com (2) Does the integrated process-genre approach help improve students‟ performance in IELTS writing task 2? If yes, to what extent? 2. Scope of the Study The research is confined to the application of the process-genre approach to teaching writing Task 2 in IELTS exams in a writing course of 15 lessons. A class of 14 non-English major students was investigated. Research methods As regarded as “the practical judgment in concrete situations”, which support the practitioner researchers in facing with the challenge and problems of practice and carrying through innovations in a reflective way (Altrichter, Feldman, Posch, and Somekh, 2013), the action research was selected to investigate the practicability of process-genre approach in teaching and learning IELTS writing Task 2. The research instruments were the pre-test and post-test, writing portfolios and interviews. Significance of the Study There are some reasons motivating me to conduct this research. First of all, the finding of this research will show how the process-genre approach and its stages could change students‟ writing performance and reflect students‟ views and their reactions on the process of teaching and studying writing. Thanks to that, I could adapt my teaching methods and materials so that they could be suitable and useful for my students. Besides, for other classes in the similar context, this research may act as a reference for pedagogical skills and research practice. Other teachers may find in this research some suggestions or implications for their teaching writing IELTS and carrying out further research on this issue. 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter reviews the literature on the process-genre approach to teaching IELTS writing Task 2. It starts with some background information, definitions and theories of key terms related and specific to this line of research. This is followed by a critical review of previous studies on the applications of process approach, genre- based approach and the integrated of both to teaching L2 writing. IELTS: the International English Language Testing System IELTS, the International English Language Testing System, is designed to assess the language ability of candidates who want to study or work where English is the language of communication. The IELTS test (academic module) is made up of four components: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. The Writing component is a direct test of writing, requiring candidates to produce two samples of writing in 60 minutes allocated.

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