MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY ~ Same’? ` a4 HH On Sy k2) PE UY S) & FINAL REPORT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS OF STUDENTS AN ANALYSIS OF THE THE THIRD-YEAR STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY AT THE FACULTY OF ENGLISH, HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY SCIENCE FIELD: ENGLISH LANGUAGE Hanoi, 2023 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY Mở J4 10 UT wH Qin Sy Kò “hờn v C3 FINAL REPORT SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJECTS OF STUDETNS AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD-YEAR STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY AT THE FACULTY OF ENGLISH, HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY SCIENCE FIELD: ENGLISH LANGUAGE Student Representatives: NGUYEN THI THU TRANG Female Class: A03 Year: 4” Number of training year: 4 Field: English language Major: English Supervisor: Dr. Tran Thi Le Dung Hanoi, 2023 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY INFORMATION ON RESEARCH RESULTS 1. General information: - Project title: An analysis of the third-year students’ difficulties in writing an argumentative essay at the Faculty of English, Hanoi Open University. - Student Representative’s Full Name: Nguyen Thi Thu Trang - Class: K26A03 - Faculty: English - Year: 4" - Number of training years: 4 - Instructor: Dr.
Tran Thi Le Dung 2. Objectives: The study analyzes the difficulties of the third-year students when writing an argumentative essay at the Faculty of English, Hanoi Open University, in order to propose effective methods for students to improve their writing skills. Creativeness and innovativeness: Realizing that essay writing skills in English play an important role for each student of the Faculty of English in particular and universities in general, expressed through improving knowledge, understanding and professional expertise, especially is in Vietnam during the period of international integration, we conducted a study on the current situation of writing skills of major students at the Faculty of English Language at Hanoi Open University. From there, survey, investigate and give results to solve the difficulties that students encounter in the process of applying them in practice.
Research results: - Describe the characteristics of teaching and learning essay writing skills in English - Identify the main difficulties that students face - Provide solutions to overcome and improve students' weak essay writing ability and lack of confidence 5. The research’s contributions to education and training, society: 5. Scientific contributions - Contributing to enriching the theoretical basis of English essay writing skills and the importance of this skill for students of the English Department of Hanoi Open University. - Contributing to promoting the quality of education and training in schools and expanding job opportunities for students 5.
Practical contributions The topic examined the current situation of English essay writing skills of students at Hanoi Open University, thereby evaluating and proposing solutions to help most students improve their writing skills, after graduating from school, generally meet the needs of future employers, so that most of them are the younger generation, who largely hold the country's destiny in their hands in a particularly important way. 7" April 2023 Student Representative Nguyen Thi Thu Trang Comment of the instructor on the contributions of the student representative: 7st April 2023 Certification of presiding unit Instructor Dr. Tran Thi Le Dung MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY INFORMATION OF STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE I. GENERAL INFORMATION Anh 4x6 Full name: Nguyen Thi Thu Trang Date of birth: 11/05/2000 Place of birth: Nam Dinh Class: K26A03 Year: 2019-2023 Faculty: English Address: 20 Trieu Khuc, Thanh Xuan Nam, Hanoi Phone: 0986874702 Email: thutrang.
LEARNING PROCESS * Year 1: Major: English Studies Faculty: English Academic grading results: Good * Year 2: Major: English Studies Faculty: English Academic grading results: Good * Year 3: Major: English Studies Faculty: English Academic grading results: Good * Year 4: Major: English Studies Faculty: English Academic grading results: Good 7st April 2023 Certification of university Student Representative Nguyen Thi Thu Trang TABLE OF CONTENTS INFORMATION ON RESEARCH RESULTS. nh nh HH HH HH ky 1 INFORMATION OE STUDENT REPRESENTATTVE. cách HH Hà Hà Hà Hiệu 4 CHAPTER I: INUTRODUCTTION. uc Hà Hà HH.
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Pie Charts Pie Chart 1: Participants’ living environment 27 Pie Chart 2: Participants’ confirmation about practicing writing skill 29 3. Tables Table 1: Basic structure of English essays 16 Table 2: Summary of the question’s / statement’s content 25 Table 3: Procedure of the research 26 Table 4: Participants’ English learning years 27 Table 5: High school subjects and skills learned by students 28 Table 6: Participants’ problems with grammar 31 Table 7: Participants’ problem with coherence 32 Table 8: Participants’ difficulties in term of background knowledge 32 Table 9: Participants’ difficulties in organization and development of an argumentative essay 33 Table 10: Participants’ obstacles in term of critical thinking 35 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 7 1. CEFR: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages 2. EFL: English as a foreign language 3.
IELTS: International English Language Testing System 4. TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale One of the hardest skills to master is writing because you have to carefully choose words, pattern of phrases and punctuation. Writing also allows us to learn effectively and think critically as it teaches us methods new ways to express one's thoughts, how to critically reflect on one's own behavior in autobiography and how to analyze truth from opinion in conceptual interpretation.
English is a compulsory academic language and a common language of international communication. Language learners must hone the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing English if they want to master this language properly. Writing has long been considered the most important of the four skills for teaching and learning English as a second language. Written English is used frequently in business correspondence, advertisements, job applications and company reports, so it becomes increasingly important to learn this ability.
In addition, since writing is an important component of all tests and exams, students who are proficient in writing English will find it easy to pass all his courses. Furthermore, they will have more job opportunities than other students, especially in private companies with an international presence. Furthermore, writing is an important skill because it helps language learners stimulate thinking and organize their ideas. It also improves learners' ability to summarize, analyze and critique (Rajoo [21]).
Undergraduate students must deal with many different types of argumentative writing, such as narrative, descriptive, exposition, and argumentative. In short, an argumentative essay is an important genre in literature, academic writing, especially at the university level. Debate writing is an essential tool in an academic setting for students who must write persuasively to persuade others to accept their point of view on a particular topic. Essay debating is a genre that requires candidates to write in different tests or exams like CEFR, TOEFL, IELTS test, etc.
Individuals in the workplace may try to convince others to support their suggestions or opinions. Clearly, argument writing is especially important for college students. However, researchers have confirmed that argument writing is the most difficult type of writing. As English majors, we realize that English majors still face some challenges when writing argumentative essays.
Students don't understand how to write an argumentative essay. More specifically, they cannot write clearly, orderly, and persuasively without the audience's perception, clear supporting evidence, and rebuttal. Furthermore, linguistic competence (vocabulary, grammar and coherence) and background affect students' writing ability. Recognizing the difficulties of students when writing essays, previous researchers such as Rahmatunisa [20] and Zhu [26] investigated and discovered other difficulties.
each other in writing essays that students often encounter. However, there are very few studies on the difficulties that third-year English majors students at Hanoi Open University face when writing essays. Therefore, the study "Analysis of the third-year students' difficulties of writing a thesis at the Faculty of English, Hanoi Open University” is done in order to deeply understand the reasons and support English learners in general, and the third-year students in particular in English at Hanoi Open University in particular, in realizing his own obstacles in writing essays. Aims and objectives of the study 1.
Aims of the study The purpose of this research is to assist the third-year English language students at Hanoi Open University in improving their argumentative essay writing skills by providing solutions based on the challenges they face. Objectives of the study The objectives of the study are as follow: O Finding out how the 3rd year students of the English Department of Hanoi Open University have applied to improve their writing skills as well as their academic problems and common mistakes. O Using appropriate methods to overcome difficulties in learning writing. O Avoiding feelings of discomfort, boredom, stagnation in learning writing skills, improve language ability, increase interest in learning.
Scop of the study The purpose of this study is to find out the difficulties that the third-year English majors students at Hanoi Open University face when writing argumentative essays. Furthermore, this study hopes to help students to limit their problems, overcome difficulties and actively improve their writing skills. Research questions The study was conducted to answer the following questions about the third-year students of the Faculty of English, Hanoi Open University: O What difficulties do 3rd year English major students face when writing essays? O How can they improve their essay writing skills? O What strategies can the third-year students use to improve their argument writing skills? 10 1. Methods of the study In my research paper, I will use qualitative and quantitative research because they are considered as effective types.