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Mục lục chi tiết

DECLARATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

LISTS OF ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Rationale of the study

1.2. Scope of the study

1.3. Aims of the study

1.4. Research questions

1.5. Method of the study

1.6. Significance of the study

1.7. Design of the study

2. CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Writing and its importance

2.2. Writing definition

2.3. The role of writing in second language teaching

2.4. Different approaches for teaching and learning writing

2.4.1. The product approach

2.4.2. The process approach

2.4.3. The genre-based approach

2.5. Phrases of teaching and learning cycle and genre based approach

2.6. Advantages and disadvantages of genre based approach to teaching writing

2.6.1. Advantages of genre based approach to teaching writing

3. CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY

4. CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

5. CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ********************** HOÀNG THỊ NGỌC LAN THE APPLICABILITY OF A GENRE- BASED APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRADE-12-STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL: AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT AT VINH YEN HIGH SCHOOL, VINH PHUC PROVINCE (Nghiên cứu hành động về khả năng ứng dụng đường hướng dựa vào thể loại đối với việc phát triển kĩ năng viết của học sinh lớp 12 trường THPT Vĩnh Yên, tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 HANOI - 2017 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ********************** HOÀNG THỊ NGỌC LAN THE APPLICABILITY OF A GENRE- BASED APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRADE-12-STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL: AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT AT VINH YEN HIGH SCHOOL, VINH PHUC PROVINCE (Nghiên cứu hành động về khả năng ứng dụng đường hướng dựa vào thể loại đối với việc phát triển kĩ năng viết của học sinh lớp 12 trường THPT Vĩnh Yên, tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Supervisor: Dr. Trầ n Thi Thu ̣ Hiền HANOI - 2017 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION I certify that this thesis entitled: “The applicability of a genre – based approach to the development of grade-12- students’ writing skill: An action research project at Vinh Yen high school, Vinh Phuc province.”, which is submitted in partial fulfillment of MA Degree at Faculty of Post Graduate Studies, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, is the result of my own work. The material in this thesis, wholly or in part, has not been submitted for a degree to any other universities or institutions Hanoi, 2017 Signature Hoàng Thị Ngọc Lan i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis could not be accomplished without help and support from a variety of people. First and foremost, I wish to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Tran Thi Thu Hien, for her guidance, encouragement and invaluable detailed critical feedback. I would like to convey my special thanks to all my teachers of the Faculty of Post Graduate Studies course 23 whose fundamental knowledge about language teaching and learning is of great importance to the achievement of my thesis. I am grateful to the participants of this study, who generously gave their time to provide me with data and insight about language knowledge. Without their help, this study would have been impossible. Finally, to my family and my close friends, words are not enough to express my gratitude. They always stood by me and encouraged me in every stage of this study. Hanoi, 2017 Hoàng Thị Ngọc Lan ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT When teaching writing skill to 12th form students at Vinh Yen High School, the author of this research recognised that students at Vinh Yen High School found writing activities challenging and ambiguous because of the variety of text types required. Consequently, they develop a negative attitude towards writing. There is a burning need that writing tasks be taught systematically. In an attempt to improve writing skills for grade-12- students and their attitudes towards writing, this study aimed at using the genre based approach through a small-scale action research project.The action research was conducted with five main steps: Problem identification, Preliminary investigation, Hypothesis, Intervention and Evaluation. The findings of this study were based on data collected from a number of instruments including a a questionnaire, a pre-test and a post-test. After a preliminary investigation had been carried out, writing course applied genre-based approach was designed. The treatment lasted for six weeks with the participation of 35 students from Class 12A1 at Vinh Yen High School and took place in the first term of the academic year 2015-2016. The findings from the tests and the questionnaires revealed that the students‟ writing skill was improved as students were provided with clear structure, language features and given step-by-step scaffolding in four stages. Furthermore, the new method positively changed the students‟ attitude towards writing, and made them feel more confident in writing. iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION . iii LISTS OF ABBREVIATIONS . vi LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES . vii CHAPTER 1:INTRODUCTION . Rationale of the study. Scope of the study . Aims of the study . Method of the study . Significance of the study . Design of the study. 3 CHAPTER 2:LITERATURE REVIEW . Writing and its importance . Different approaches for teaching and learning writing . Phrases of teaching and learning cycle and genre based approach. Advantages and disadvantages of genre based approach to teaching writing . Context of the study . 24 CHAPTER 4:FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION . Quantitative description of results from the pre-test and post-test . 25 iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Quantitative description of results from the questionnaire . Limitations of the study . Suggestions for further research . XVII v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LISTS OF ABBREVIATIONS EFL: English as a Foreign Language ESP: English for Specific Purposes L2: Second Language Ss: Students vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Page Figure 3.1: Action research cycle 20 Table 3.1: Procedure of the research 22 Table 4.1: Score interval of the tests 25 Figure 4.1: Comparison between pre-test and post-test score 26 Table 4.2: The descriptive statistics of the two tests scores 27 Table 4.3: Paired Samples Correlations 27 Table 4.4: Descriptive Statistics of the questionnaires 28 Table 4.5: Students‟ attitudes towards genre-based approach 29 Table 4.6: The students‟ self-evaluation on the effectiveness of genre-based approach 30 Figure 4.2: Students‟ overall assessment of self-improvement from 31 genre-based approach Figure 4.3: Students‟ responses on changes they had from genre- 32 based approach vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study Effective teaching process is the desire of all teachers. Nevertheless, how to achieve it is a challenging question, which requires teachers to have not only excellent qualities, specialized knowledge about their subjects but also appropriate methods to adapt in teaching. In fact, in the late 20th century, the teaching and learning of English in our country has changed from the grammar translation method to communicative language teaching approach. Consequently, our English textbook series were compiled under the impacts of the communicative approach which focuses on four skills: reading, speaking, listening and writing. Also, the English textbooks were designed in a theme-based form. As a result, the writing tasks in each unit vary according to the topic of each unit, which keeps students continually move from this genre to another. Students correspondingly find it too strenuous to be able to write in the correct form. Realizing that fact, teachers should do more researches to improve writing skill for learners. Through reading the literature, the writer of this study was impressed with the notion of teaching writing through a genre- based approach. Though, through finding and reading materials related to the topic, the writer realized that this approach to writing was inconsiderably researched in Vietnamese high schools. Hence, she determined to conduct the study titled “The applicability of a genre – based approach to the development of grade-12- students‟ writing skill: An action research project at Vinh Yen high school, Vinh Phuc province” to experiment this approach to her teaching writing to her own students. Hopefully, this action research may contribute to ameliorating the writing teaching and learning process. 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Scope of the study Because of the limitation of a minor study, the author only conducted a small research on 35 grade 12th non-English major students at Vinh Yen high school. The study also placed strong emphasis on the effectiveness of using genre- based approach to help students work well in writing lessons. Aims of the study This study is designed to investigate the effectiveness of genre-based approach in helping students at Vinh Yen High School improve their writing performance of English. Secondly, the study also evaluates the students‟ attitudes towards using genre-based approach as a tool to improve their writing skill. Research questions In order to achieve the aforementioned aims, the following questions are formulated: 1. How effective is genre-based approach in helping students at Vinh Yen High School improve their writing skill? 2. What are the students‟ attitudes towards the use of genre-based approach to improve their writing skill? 1. Method of the study The study was based on action research. The participants of the research was 35 English non-major grade-12-students at Vinh Yen High School. Since the researcher wanted to find out whether genre-based approach was beneficial in writing periods or not, a pre-test and post- test were given to students. The purpose of the pre-test was to evaluate the students‟ ability before treatment. After treatment, the researcher conducted a post-test to assess the efficiency of genre-based approach after a 10-week- course. Additionally, a survey questionnaire was designed and distributed to students 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com at the end of treatment in order for students to express their thoughts as well as their judgements about the treatment. Significance of the study This study helps to explore and prove the effectiveness of genre-based approach to teaching writing skills to students; therefore, it is hoped that this research will be beneficial in many ways. First, participants in the study (the teacher and the learners at Vinh Yen High School) will benefit directly from the experience of reflection. Secondly, the findings of the study will contribute information to future researchers to develop some dimensions which have not been developed in this research such as using dissimilar student population or condition. Design of the study This study is divided as followed: Chapter 1: Introduction - provides the rationale, the scope, the aim, the research questions, the method, the significance and the organization of the study. Chapter 2: Literature review–presents concepts relevant to the topic of the thesis: writing skill and its importance, different approaches for teaching and learning writing skill, advantages as well as disadvantages of genre-based approach to teaching writing, the previous studies related to the fields and some gaps for present study. Chapter 3: Methodology - presents the context of the research including the research settings, teaching materials, research participants. This chapter also provides information about action research in general and the instruments, the data collection procedures and data analysis of this study. Chapter 4: Findings and discussion - focuses on the results of the tests and the results from the questionnaire. This chapter also includes the analyses 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com and discussions of the results. Chapter 5: Conclusion – closes the thesis with recapitulation, some limitations, recommendations and suggestions for further study. 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Writing and its importance 2. Writing definition Writing is an important and fundamental area of development in a native language and in a second language; hence, there have been abundant definitions of writing. According to Donn Byrne (l998:1), writing can be regarded as the "act of forming graphic symbols" or the "making marks on the flat surface of some kinds''. Whereas Brannon, Knight and Neverow -Turk (1982:2) pointed out that " writing is a creative art, not as an assembly line operation of locking words together into sentences and bolting sentences together into paragraphs in accordance with a predefined plan". However, writing, in language teacher' opinions, is "a language skill which is difficult to acquire" (Tribble, 1996:3). It is "a process that occurs over a period of time, particularly if we take into account the sometimes extended periods of thinking that precede creating an initial draft" (Harris, 1993:10) .

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