THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES BUI THI THANH VIEN AN INVESTIGATION OF LISTENING STRATEGIES FOR THE 10TH GRADE STUDENTS AT BINH LIEU HIGH SCHOOL (Nghiên cứu về chiến lược nghe cho học sinh lớp 10 tại trường THPT Bình Liêu ) M. THESIS (APPLICATION ORIENTATION) Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201 Supervisor: Cao Duy Trinh (PhD) THAI NGUYEN – 2019 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION I certify my authorship of the study report entitled “An investigation of listening strategies for the 10th grade students at Binh Lieu high school” The topic is a product that I have tried to study in the process of studying at Thai Nguyen University as well as teaching at Binh Lieu high school. During the writing process, there are references to some clearly-derived documents, under the guidance of Cao Duy Trinh (PhD). I assure you if there is any problem, please accept my responsibility Quang Ninh, September 20th 2019 Trainee Bui Thi Thanh Vien This study was approved by: Cao Duy Trinh (PhD) i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am deeply indebted to a number of people for helping me to make this M.
First and foremost, my deepest gratitude goes to Cao Duy Trinh (PhD), my supervisor, who supported and encouraged me generously throughout this study. Without his excellent academic guidance and support, my thesis would not have been completed. I would like to sincerely thank the anonymous participants who contributed data to this study. Without their outstanding cooperation, this thesis would have never been done.
I would like to thank my family, especially my parents and my husband for their constant source of love, support and encouragement in times of difficulty and frustration. Finally, I would like to thank my readers for their interests and comments on this thesis. While I am deeply indebted to all these people for their help to the completion of this thesis, I myself remain responsible for any inadequacies that are found in this work. Bui Thi Thanh Vien ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT This paper studies an investigation of listening strategies for the 10th grade students at Binh Lieu high school.
The study has the population of total 69 students of the 10th grade of Binh Lieu high school at Quang Ninh province. These 69 students come from three classes of the 10th grade. Sampling of a study is defined by qualitative research and quantitative research. Through this research, many aspects of listening have been clarified, such as definition, types of listening, difficulties, importance of listening, how to improve listening skill, listening strategies, and role of teachers in teaching listening skill.
The application of listening strategies in learning listening skill is very important. Indirect listening strategy is considered as an effective strategy in improving efficiency of listening compared to direct listening strategy. Its efficiency and effectivenes is shown in the result of survey of 10th grade students at Binh Lieu high school. In the survey to give solution for improving listening skill, a larger number of students also give answers of listening learning skills related to indirect strategies: learning listening in group, controling emotions, feelings and attitudes, and plan to learn listening strategically.
iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Aims of the study. Scope of the study. Significance of the research…………………………………………………….
Structure of the research……………………………………………………….2 Chapter 2: Literature review 2. Type of listening. The difference between hearing and listening………………………………. The importance of listening skill in daily life, work environment and language learning……………………………………………………………………………….
Barriers and difficulties in listening and learning listening…………………. The improvement of listening skill…………………………………………. The role of teacher in teaching listening skill………………………………. Type of listening strategies ……………………………………………………30 2.
Direct listening strategies………………………………………………31 2. Indirect listening strategies……………………………………………. The reality of learning English at high schools in Vietnam today………….36 Chapter 3: Research methodology iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.Error! Bookmark not defined.Error! Bookmark not defined. Sample and sampling procedures.
Data collection instrument……………………………………………………40 3. Data collection procedures ……………………………………………………41 3. Data analytical method………………………………………………………. Reliability and validily ………………………………………………………42 Chapter 4: Findings and Discussion.Result and discussion …………………………………………………………….43 Chapter 5: Conclusions and recommendations……………………………………52 References …………………………………………………………………………54 Appendix A…………………………………………………………………………… Appendix B…………………………………………………………………………… v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.
Rationale Listening is a process that allows the listeners to understand a message, help them engage in dialogue and succeed in communication. Without listening skills, people engaged in communication activities will not receive the message, and therefore, they cannot respond quickly and efficiently (Mberia, 2011). Many researchers agree that in language learning, listening plays an important role in the reception of a language. Recently, listening skill has been gaining much attention among researchers in teaching and learning foreign languages in general and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in particular.
Many scholars believe that the most important step to start learning English is to try to hear the language. In addition, listening skill brings the students the opportunity to feel the language and improve the overall ability to use English (Yıldırım and Yıldırım, 2016). Rost (1994) also emphasized that listening could be seen as a necessary skill in the process of training a foreign language learner and even could be considered as a tool to predict the success of English learners. As such, listening skill plays an important role in learning English.
Therefore, the topic “An investigation of listening strategies for the 10th grade students at Binh Lieu high school in Quang Ninh province” is chosen for research. Aims of the study The study aims mainly to explore listening strategies which the 10th grade students at Binh Lieu high school in their English learning process, particularly: - To explore the direct listening and indirect listening strategies of the 10th grade students at Binh Lieu high school. - To explore their effect differences between using direct listening strategy and indirect listening strategy in learning English. - To provide solutions for improvement of the students‟ listening skill.
What listening strategies do the 10th grade students at Binh Lieu high school use? 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Are there any differences of tests‟ results between direct listening strategy and indirect listening strategy used by the 10th grade students of Binh Lieu high school? 3. What are solutions for the improvements of the students‟ listening skill? 1. Scope of the study *Geographic location The research is going to be conducted in Binh Lieu high school in Quang Ninh province.
This is done to obtain an objective result for the applied research. *Demographic objects The 10th grade student at Binh Lieu high school is included in demographic profile. 100 students of the 10th grade of Binh Lieu high school take part in the survey. In a wide range of respondents, there are some mistakes that can surely happen when doing survey with the type of error such as the respondents not focusing on the questions.
Thus, they may decide the answers by chance without thinking and share their true idea, for instance their answers are just all “agree” or “disagree”. In addition, the respondents had no time to answer the questionnaire, and then they may give incorrect answers. *Temporal aims The time frame for conducting this research and examining the results is estimated to be a half of year or longer depending on whether there is a constraint of funds and manpower. The research is written in 2018.
Significance of the research. In the aspect of the scope of the research, it is important in finding out listening strategies. And these strategies are understood through the application of investigation of the 10th grade student at Binh Lieu high school. From that, it is useful to find out the best listening in learning English.
Structure of the research In chapter 1, it is introduction. The study presents general parts including background to the study; problem statement; review of related literatures; purposes of 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com the study; research question; scope of the study; methods; significance and structure of the study. In chapter 2, the study presents literature review including concepts and previous studies relating to this topic. In chapter 3, it is research methodology.
The study presents research questions, research participants, research procedures, data collection instruments and data collection and analysis process. In chapter 4, the study shows findings and discussion after analyzing data In chapter 5, the study presents conclusions and recommendations. There are three parts in conclusions consisting of conclusion of the thesis, limitation of the thesis and suggestions for further researches. 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW Learning English is a long time process requiring perseverance and patience.
The listening subject is one of four difficult skills for learners. In order to have a good listening, listener has a must of a wake head. During listening process, unrelated things need to be removed from the brain. In fact, many students have to face with English listening as well as other foreign languages.
The literature review of this research is going to state some things about listening skill, factors that affecting listening and kinds of listening strategies. Some previous studies are also described in this literature so that we can see previous researchers‟ views on listening. Listening definition The word “listening” has been defined by many authors all over the world. Babita (2013) gave a definition of listening as a language modality.
It is one of four language skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing. Listening must need to have an active involvement of a person. In listening, there is the relationship of sender, receiver and message. Listening is a psychological process of receiving, attending to constructing meaning from and responding to spoken and non-verbal messages.
In a similar aspect, Barker (1971) presented listening was the selective process of attending to, hearing, understanding and remembering aural symbols. So, listening is quite complicated and requires high concentration. If not, key words or key messages will be lost. The role of listening is promoted so much.
Having a deep view of listening, Tucker (1925) brought a profound definition of listening. Particularly, it is “an analysis of impressions resulting from concentration where an effort of will is required”. As so, both Baker (1971) and Tucker (1925) had same thought that listening required a highly concentrated brain. In the case that a person has responsibility to listen a text and write the main content of the text; however, during the process of listening, he or she lets his or her brain focus on the other issue.
Consequently, the result of listening is not good. In other words, he or she does not understand what the key words of the text are. He or she failed in listening. According to the view of Ahmadi (2016), listening consisted of “the auditory discrimination, aural grammar, choosing necessary information, remembering it, and connecting it to the process between sound and form of meaning”.
In general, listening is a skill that needs the 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com choice of key information, need to remember it. The below is listening definitions of many authors who wrote very long time ago. As time passes, listening has been defined in different ways which has depended on the areas of expertise of educators; these educators have done in social sciences. Listening, at the beginning of 19th century was understood “in terms of reliably recording acoustic signals in the brain” (Rost, 2002).
The definition was different in decades later when there was more information about human brain. It was defined as “unconscious process controlled by hidden cultural schemata”. Coming to 40s of 19th century, due to the development of telecommunications, listening was “successful transmission and recreation of messages”. In the 1960s, listening composed of listeners‟ own experiences to understand the intention of the speaker.
In the 1970s, “the cultural significance of speech behavior” was accepted.