MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUY NHON UNIVERSITY DANG THI HOANG ANH HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE NEW TIẾNG ANH 10 PUBLISHED IN 2022 Major: Theory and Methodology of English Language Teaching Code: 8140111 Supervisor: Assoc, Prof. Nguyen Thi Thu Hien BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUY NHƠN ĐẶNG THỊ HOÀNG ANH NHẬN THỨC CỦA GIÁO VIÊN TRƯỜNG TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG VỀ SÁCH TIẾNG ANH 10 ĐƯỢC XUẤT BẢN NĂM 2022 Ngành: Lý luận và phương pháp dạy học bộ môn Tiếng Anh Mã số: 8140111 Người hướng dẫn: PGS. Nguyễn Thị Thu Hiền i DECLARATION OF AUTHORSHIP I hereby declare that this thesis titled "High school teachers' perceptions of the new Tiếng Anh 10 textbook published in 2022" was carried out by myself under the guidance and supervision of Assoc. Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, and that the work contained and its results are confirmed by the author and have not violated research ethics.
Quy Nhon, 2023 Dang Thi Hoang Anh ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to say thank you to the following people from the bottom of my heart: my supervisor, my family, my school, my colleagues, and all the participants who voluntarily joined in my questionnaire and interview. This research project was only successful with them. First, I sincerely thank Associate Prof. Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, my thesis mentor, for her constant encouragement and patience and her enlightened, helpful, and patient comments.
She always helped me along the road and consistently showed her trust in me. I owe her a debt of gratitude for her insightful feedback on this thesis. I would especially like to express my gratitude to the school administrator and the English Department of Le Thanh Phuong High School teachers for their support so that I can participate in this master's course at Quy Nhon University in two years. I am grateful to all of the enthusiastic high school teachers in Phu Yen Province who spent their time participating in this study.
I especially appreciate Quy Nhon University's Postgraduate Department and Foreign Languages Department for their administrative support. Finally, I thank my family for constant encouragement during the course and the writing of my thesis. iii ABSTRACT This research aims at investigating the high school teachers' perceptions on the new "Tiếng Anh 10" textbook published in 2022. This study was carried out with 50 teacher participants from high schools in Phu Yen Province.
The study addressed three issues (1) the high school teachers’ perceptions on organizaion of “Tiếng Anh 10” textbook; (2) the high school teachers’ perceptions on activities of “Tiếng Anh 10” textbook; (3) the high school teachers’ perceptions on language skills of “Tiếng Anh 10” textbook. The research instruments employed in this research included quantitative data questionnaires and semi- structured interviews for qualitative data. 50 English teachers who were using the “Tiếng Anh 10” Global Success were given questionnaires, and 10 among 50 participants were accepted to join the interview. The findings show that most teachers had favourable opinions of the textbooks' organization and the activities in the textbook.
The findings also revealed that teachers had various perspectives on the language skills of the new "Tiếng Anh 10" textbook. From the findings, some implications were given for both material developers and teachers. Key words: high school teachers’ perception, the new “Tiếng Anh 10” iv TABLE OF CONTENT DECLARATION OF AUTHORSHIP. iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
vi LIST OF TABLE. SCOPE OF THE STUDY. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY. STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY.
AN OVERVIEW OF TEACHING ENGLISH AS AN EFL IN VIETNAM. Definition of EFL Textbook. The Role of Textbooks for EFL Teachers and Students. A Description of the 10th – grade English Textbooks.
PERCEPTION AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING. Definition of Perception. Related Studies on Teachers’ Perceptions. Importance of Perception on Learning and Teaching.
EVALUATION OF TEXTBOOKS. The Evaluation of the Physical Aspects of Textbook. The Evaluation of the Academic Aspects of Textbook. REVIEW OF RELATED EMPIRICAL STUDIES.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS. TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION IN THE NEW “TIẾNG ANH 10”. TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE ACTIVITIES IN THE NEW “TIẾNG ANH 10”. TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE LANGUAGE SKILLS IN THE NEW “TIẾNG ANH 10”.
CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS. IMPLICATIONS OF THE STUDY. LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY. SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE STUDIES.
5 vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS EFL : English as a foreign language ELT : English language teaching ESL : English as a second language MOET : Ministry of Education and Training vii LIST OF TABLE Table 2. 1 Structure and content of the new “Tiếng Anh 10” textbook. The background of teacher participants. 2 Reliability Statistics of the Questionnaire.
1 Teacher’s perception of the organization of “Tiếng Anh 10”. 2 Appropriate organization of the textbook. 3 Comprehensiveness and usefulness of the table of content. 4 Effectiveness of the glossary.
5 Clarity of the preface of the book. 6 The realization of CLT in the textbook design. 7 The activities in the new “Tiếng Anh 10”. 8 A balanced range of exercises in the book.
9 Collaboration in the book. 10 The enhancement of creativity, innovation and independence of textbook tasks. 11 Enhancement of students’ communication via textbook tasks. 12 The new content conveyed in the activities in the textbook.
13 The language skills in the new “Tiêng Anh 10”. 14 The language authenticity of the textbook. 15 The language appropriacy to students' level of the textbook. 16 The clarity of the instructions in the textbook.
17 A balanced range of four skills. 18 Different dialects in audio file. 19 The grammar points in authentic sentences. 20 Effectiveness of reusing vocabulary.
Rationale The availability of textbooks is one of the crucial elements in the teaching and learning process because textbooks serve as a guide for students and teachers of all educational levels to engage in classroom activities actively. This concurs with Iqbal's (2013) argument that using textbooks might help students attain their learning goals to the fullest extent possible. In addition, textbooks are the foundation of educational practices and provide students with "a wide variety of fresh and possibly exciting knowledge, as well as open the door to a world of magnificent experience" (Chambliss & Calfee, 1998, p. English textbooks are one of the elements that affect teaching and learning in education.
Teachers utilize textbooks as teaching aids to assist them in explaining. Vietnam is changing from a mostly closed society with a centrally planned economy to one that is quickly urbanizing and has a global perspective. The country's English language instruction has gone through many ups and downs and has taken severe turns from being nearly minimized to being the most important foreign language to be taught and learned. English has been designated as "a compulsory subject" taught from Grade 3 to Grade 12.
English has been seen as being "important to the Vietnamese young generation's future education and employability "in a globalized, multicultural, and multilingual world" (Government of Vietnam 2008, p. This pressing necessity has made it impossible for Vietnam to sustain its current standards of teaching, learning and usage of foreign languages. Decision-making bodies (the Government and MOET) were increasingly aware that Vietnam's performance standards in foreign languages, in general, and English, would lag without a radical change 2 in language policy, curriculum design, textbook development, teaching methodology, and testing and assessment. For the national general education system's English teaching and learning, a new curriculum and many new textbooks have been produced to achieve this aim (Ministry of Education and Training 2015).
According to Decision 441/QD-BGDĐT and Decision 442/QD-BGDĐT, a Decision approving the list of 7th and 10th-grade textbooks used in public education institutions dated January 28 th, 2022. And nine 10th-grade English books for next school year include Global Success, Think, English Discovery, Macmillan Move On, Friends Plus Global, Explore New Worlds, Bright, i-Learn Smart World and C21-Smart. In practice, high schools in Phu Yen provice are free to choose one of the above nine books, but Global Success textbook is most commonly used at most high schools in Phu Yen The attitudes of teachers toward English textbooks in ESL/EFL classes have been the subject of a few studies (Wen-Cheng et al., 2011; Kirkgöz, 2009; Rahimi & Hassani, 2012; Khodabandeh & Mombini, 2018). These studies talked about a checklist for evaluating textbooks that would be used for primary school testing.
Teachers are among the most crucial members of the educational system since they are on the front lines of instruction, actively involved in various teaching and learning processes, and the last people to put educational ideas and concepts into practice. The importance of instructors' perspectives in the field of English language teaching professionals has been emphasized. According to Robson (2002), language teachers' attitudes affect what they do in the classroom. The perceptions of teachers also affect what they do both inside and outside of the classroom.
What teachers do in classrooms is influenced by their perceptions. How instructors react to problems in their teaching environments is related to their perceptions. This implies that teachers 3 typically base their judgments and conclusions on their impressions. Therefore, when doing their regular instruction, teachers must be conscious of what they perceive and believe.
Additionally, their views influence how teachers respond to flaws in their instructional environments (Moloy, 2009). Some schools have only recently begun using the set of English textbooks under the National Foreign Language 2020 project for one year. Especially, Global Success has not been tested for difficulties and advantages from EFL high school teachers. The perceptions of teachers who use the textbooks directly about the benefits and challenges implementing the book have received little research.
Additionally, the National Foreign Language 2020 project's investigation of the English textbooks is complicated. Because of this, I decided to conduct this study to find out how teachers view textbooks and make suggestions better the situation. Research Aim The aim of the present study is to investigate what teachers think about the organization, activities, language skills in “Tiếng Anh 10” textbook by Viet Nam Education Publishing House. Research Objectives There are 3 objectives which are focused on in this study: - Investigate the teachers’ perceptions of the organization in the new “Tiếng Anh 10” published by Viet Nam Education Publishing House.
- Examine the teachers’ perceptions of the activities in the new “Tiếng Anh 10” published by Viet Nam Education Publishing House. - Identify the teachers’ perceptions of the language skills in the new “Tiếng Anh 10” published by Viet Nam Education Publishing House. Research Questions With those objectives, the study focuses on answering: - What are the teachers’ perceptions of the organization in the new “Tiếng Anh 10” published by Viet Nam Education Publishing House Limited Company? - What are the teachers’ perceptions of the activities in the new “Tiếng Anh 10” published by Viet Nam Education Publishing House Limited Company? - What are the teachers’ perceptions of the language skills in the new “Tiếng Anh 10” published by Viet Nam Education Publishing House Limited Company? 1. Scope of the Study The new “Tiếng Anh 10” includes a student book and workbook.
Each book contains 4 review units and 10 units. Each unit has 8 headings: Getting Started, Language (Vocabulary, Pronunciation, and Grammar), Skills (Reading, Speaking, Listening, Writing), Communication & Culture, Looking Back & Project. Every unit begins with a discussion of the subject matter, including phonological and lexical items pertinent to the subject, particular functions and conceptions, and grammatical structures expressing them (MOET, 2012). However, in this thesis, I would like to investigate the perceptions of high schools teachers on the organization, the activities and the language skills.
The participants are 50 English teachers who used the new “Tiếng Anh 10” in 2022- 2023 academic year in Phu Yen Province.