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Luận văn thạc sĩ nghiên cứu vnu ulis an investigation into the it students application of vocabulary guessing strategies in esp, khảo sát thực trạng, phân tích nguyên nhân, đề

2018

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Mục lục chi tiết

DECLARATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBRIVIATIONS

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

LIST OF CHARTS

1. PART A: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Rationale of the Study

1.2. Aims of the Study

1.3. Research Questions

1.4. Scope of the Study

1.5. Significance of the Study

1.6. Method of the Study

1.7. Design of the Study

2. PART B: DEVELOPMENT

2. CHAPTER ONE: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. An Overview of Reading Comprehension

2.2. The Nature of Reading Comprehension

2.3. The Relationship between Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension

2.4. Reading Comprehension Strategies

2.5. Definition of Reading Comprehension Strategies

2.6. Classification of Reading Comprehension Strategies

2.7. Vocabulary-guessing Strategies

2.7.1. Definition of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies

2.7.2. Classification of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies

2.7.3. Importance of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies

2.8. An Overview of ESP

2.8.1. Definition of ESP

2.8.2. Classifications of ESP

2.8.3. Characteristics of ESP

2.9. Summary of Chapter 1

3. CHAPTER TWO: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1. An Overview of PPUTL and ESP Course in this University

3.2. The Students at PPUTL

3.3. The Teachers and Teaching Methods of ESP at PPUTL

3.4. Course Books for Teaching ESP at PPUTL

3.5. Description of the Subjects

3.6. Data Collection Instruments

3.7. Data Collection Procedures

3.8. Data Analysis Procedures

3.9. Summary of Chapter 2

4. CHAPTER THREE: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

4.1. Analysis of Questionnaires

4.2. The Students’ Attitudes towards the Role of ESP Reading Comprehension

4.3. The Students’ Attitudes towards Application of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies in ESP Reading Comprehension

4.4. Analysis of Verbal Reports

4.5. Word-guessing Strategies Employed by Students Collected through Think-aloud Protocol

4.6. Comparison of Word-guessing Strategies Used by the Students in the Questionnaire and Think-aloud Protocol

4.7. Difficulties the Students Encountered When Using Word-guessing Strategies to Make Guess

4.8. Solutions to Help Students Overcome Their Difficulties When Applying These Word-guessing Strategies

4.9. Discussion of Research Questions

4.9.1. Research Question One

4.9.2. Research Question Two

4.9.3. Research Question Three

4.10. Summary of Chapter 3

4.11. Pedagogical Implications of the Study

4.12. Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research

APPENDIX 1: PRE-TEST

APPENDIX 2: POST-TEST

APPENDIX 3: ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULT LEVELS OF PRE-TEST

APPENDIX 4: ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULT LEVELS OF POST-TEST

APPENDIX 5: ANSWER KEYS OF PRE- AND POST-TEST

APPENDIX 6: QUESTIONNAIRE FOR VOCABULARY-GUESSING STRATEGIES

APPENDIX 7: SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENTS

APPENDIX 8: PHIẾU KHẢO SÁT Ý KIẾN HỌC VIÊN

APPENDIX 9: STUDENTS’ VERBAL REPORTS

LIST OF ABBRIVIATIONS

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

LIST OF CHARTS

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ---------- TRUONG THI HONG NHUNG AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IT STUDENTS’ APPLICATION OF VOCABULARY-GUESSING STRATEGIES IN ESP READING COMPREHENSION AT A UNIVERSITY IN BAC NINH PROVINCE (Nghiên cứu việc sử dụng các chiến thuật đoán từ trong kỹ năng đọc hiểu tiếng Anh chuyên ngành của sinh viên Công nghệ thông tin ở một trường Đại học ở Bắc Ninh) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Language Teaching Methodology Code: 8140231.01 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 ---------- TRUONG THI HONG NHUNG AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IT STUDENTS’ APPLICATION OF VOCABULARY-GUESSING STRATEGIES IN ESP READING COMPREHENSION AT A UNIVERSITY IN BAC NINH PROVINCE (Nghiên cứu việc sử dụng các chiến thuật đoán từ trong kỹ năng đọc hiểu tiếng Anh chuyên ngành của sinh viên Công nghệ thông tin ở một trường Đại học ở Bắc Ninh) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Language Teaching Methodology Code: 8140231. Phạm Thị Thanh Thùy Hanoi - 2018 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION I, the undersigned, certify my authority of the M.A minor thesis entitled “An investigation into the IT students' application of vocabulary-guessing strategies in ESP reading comprehension at a university in Bac Ninh Province” in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. To the best of my knowledge and belief, this minor thesis contains no material which has previously been submitted to any university or institution. Except where the references are indicated, no other person’s piece of work has been used without due acknowledgements in the text of the thesis. Ha Noi, 2018 Student Trương Thị Hồng Nhung i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge my deep gratitude to all those who have supported me in doing this independent study. First and foremost, I would like to express my greatest appreciation to my supervisor, Assoc. Pham Thi Thanh Thuy for her valuable time and useful guidance towards the completion of this minor thesis. Secondly, I am extremely grateful to my lecturers, my friends, my classmates, as well as my colleagues for their invaluable comments and criticism and also for their continued interest and encouragements, without their sincere participation, this paper would not have been possible. Next, I truly wish to thank all my students at PPUTL, especially those of class B1D5 and B2D5 who have actively participated in the study. Last but not least, my sincere thanks are extended to my beloved people, my parents, my husband and my daughter for their love, care, tolerance and encouragement during the time I had to spend for this thesis. ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the application of vocabulary- guessing strategies among third-year IT students at PPUTL while doing ESP reading comprehension tasks and to propose solutions to help students overcome the difficulties they experienced when applying these strategies. Three research questions are submitted and answered accordingly. A pre-test, a post-test, a survey questionnaire and think-aloud protocol are employed as research tools in this study. The collected results indicate that the participants of this study make use of various strategies to deal with unknown words while reading ESP texts. Among those strategies, vocabulary- guessing one is the most preferred method. Of all word-inferring strategies, guessing meaning from context is the most frequently-used one by the students. Using collocation and syntactic knowledge are the next two most preferred guessing strategies by the students. And most students admitted that they particularly lack knowledge of vocabulary-guessing strategies, linguistic knowledge and intrinsic motivation for reading. Some solutions then have been given by the author in order to help them overcome these difficulties. Discussion, research limitations, pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research are also presented in this thesis. iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION . iii TABLE OF CONTENTS . iv LIST OF ABBRIVIATIONS .vii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES . viii LIST OF CHARTS .ix PART A: INTRODUCTION . Rationale of the Study. Aims of the Study . Scope of the Study . Significance of the Study . Method of the Study . Design of the Study. 6 CHAPTER ONE: LITERATURE REVIEW . An Overview of Reading Comprehension . The Nature of Reading Comprehension . The Relationship between Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension . Reading Comprehension Strategies . Definition of Reading Comprehension Strategies . Classification of Reading Comprehension Strategies . Vocabulary-guessing Strategies. Definition of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies . Classification of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies . Importance of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies . An Overview of ESP. Definition of ESP . Classifications of ESP . Characteristics of ESP . Summary of Chapter 1 . 19 iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER TWO: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY . An Overview of PPUTL and ESP Course in this University . The Students at PPUTL . The Teachers and Teaching Methods of ESP at PPUTL . Course Books for Teaching ESP at PPUTL . Description of the Subjects . Data Collection Instruments . Data Collection Procedures . Data Analysis Procedures . Summary of Chapter 2 . 29 CHAPTER THREE: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION . Analysis of Questionnaires . The Students’ Attitudes towards the Role of ESP Reading Comprehension . The Students’ Attitudes towards Application of Vocabulary-guessing Strategies in ESP Reading Comprehension . Analysis of Verbal Reports . Word-guessing Strategies Employed by Students Collected through Think- aloud Protocol . Comparison of Word-guessing Strategies Used by the Students in the Questionnaire and Think-aloud Protocol. Difficulties the Students’ Encountered When Using Word-guessing Strategies to Make Guess . Solutions to Help Students Overcome Their Difficulties When Applying These Word-guessing Strategies . Discussion of Research Questions . Research Question One . Research Question Two . Research Question Three . Summary of Chapter 3 . 49 v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Pedagogical Implications of the Study . Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research . I APPENDIX 1: PRE-TEST . I APPENDIX 2: POST-TEST . V APPENDIX 3: ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULT LEVELS OF PRE-TEST .IX APPENDIX 4: ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULT LEVELS OF POST-TEST .XIV APPENDIX 5: ANSWER KEYS OF PRE- AND POST-TEST . XX APPENDIX 6: QUESTIONNAIRE FOR VOCABULARY-GUESSING STRATEGIES .XXI APPENDIX 7: SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENTS . XXIV APPENDIX 8: PHIẾU KHẢO SÁT Ý KIẾN HỌC VIÊN . XXVIII APPENDIX 9: STUDENTS’ VERBAL REPORTS . XXXI vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF ABBRIVIATIONS ABBREVIATIONS MEANINGS CEFR Common European Framework of Reference for Languages EFL English as foreign language ESL English as a second language ESP English for specific purposes EST English for Science and Technology GE General English IT Information Technology L1 First Language L2 Second Language PPUTL People’s Police University of Technology and Logistics vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES 1. List of Tables Table 1.1: Summary of vocabulary- guessing strategies that might be used by the IT students at PPUTL when doing ESP reading comprehension tasks Table 2.1: Vocabulary-guessing strategies used by the IT students at PPUTL Table 3.1: Ranks of strategies use according to results from Questionnaire and Think- aloud protocol 2. List of Figures Figure 2.1: Research procedure viii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF CHARTS Chart 3.1: The importance of ESP reading comprehension Chart 3.2: Students' evaluation of difficult levels of ESP reading comprehension texts Chart 3.3: Students’ evaluation of some factors influencing performance of ESP reading comprehension Chart 3.4: Students’ frequency use of strategies for unknown words Chart 3.5: Students’ frequency use of vocabulary-guessing strategies ix LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the Study Under the circumstance of the blooming Fourth Industrial Revolution, English has become the key to world’s science, technology and commerce. Thus, at present learning English is not only the interest but also the great and practical demand for everyone, especially for those who want to be able to get well-paid jobs in foreign companies, have opportunities to study abroad or have chances of being promoted and so on. Being aware of the importance of English language, Vietnamese leaders have been paying great attention and investment on improving students’ English competence. A typical example can be listed is the National Foreign Languages Project scheme for the 2008-2020 periods which delves into brand-new advances to improve effectively the quality of English language learning and teaching across all school levels in Vietnam. Keeping up with the current trend and implementing the scheme, the administration board of the People’s Police University of Technology and Logistics (PPUTL) once again affirmed that English is among the most important skills which IT students had better improve while training at this university. Among the four general skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing that any learners need to master when studying English, reading skills in general and reading comprehension skills in particular are considered the most crucial. Al- M’tassim (2014) wrote in his article that “the mastery of reading comprehension skills is the key for students to get well with most content courses”. In PPUTL, this is definitely true for students specializing in Information Technology because there are a plenty of available materials relevant to Information and Technology are written in English. In the context of teaching and learning ESP at PPUTL, very little classroom time, even not at all, is spent on instructing students reading strategies meanwhile 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com comprehension questions are the most dominant tasks in ESP reading lessons. Throughout the teaching ESP for IT students at this university, the author observed that the students had poor results in ESP reading comprehension. In reality, most IT students at this university admitted that a lack of vocabulary knowledge is the largest obstacle for them to overcome ESP reading comprehension tasks. Additionally, misconception about the nature of reading and incomplete awareness of reading comprehension strategies may be the reasons for their poor achievement in ESP reading comprehension. It is the same as Alderson’s point of view, “the answer perhaps inevitably, is equivocal and tentative – it appears to be both a language problem and a reading problem” (p. In brief, all the above have inspired the author to conduct a study on “An investigation into the IT students' application of vocabulary-guessing strategies in ESP reading comprehension at a university in Bac Ninh Province” with the hope to make a little contribution to the quality of teaching and learning reading comprehension skills of ESP texts for IT students at this university. Aims of the Study This study aims to address the following issues: (1) Identifying the students’ attitudes towards application of word-inferring strategies when reading ESP texts; (2) Finding out the vocabulary-guessing strategies which the IT students at PPUTL use most frequently to make sense of unfamiliar words; (3) Proposing solutions to help students overcome their difficulties when applying these word-guessing strategies. Research Questions In correspondence with the aforementioned aims, the researcher attempted to answer the following questions: Question One: What are the IT students’ attitudes towards ESP reading comprehension? 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com Question Two: Which vocabulary-guessing strategies do the IT students at PPUTL use most frequently to work out the meaning of unknown words in ESP reading comprehension? Question Three: What might be good solutions to help students overcome their difficulties when applying these word-guessing strategies? 4. Scope of the Study Within the frame of this research, the author focuses on examining word- inferring strategies employed by IT students to surmise the meanings of unknown words as well as their difficulties when applying these strategies. The research was conducted during the second term of 2017-2018 academic year when the students were studying ESP course.

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