MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HUE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ------------------------- NGUYEN THI DIEU HIEN IDENTIFYING ELEVENTH GRADERS’ LEARNING STYLES IN DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILL AT QUOC HOC HIGH SCHOOL MASTER THESIS IN EDUCATION HUE, 2011 1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HUE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ------------------------- NGUYEN THI DIEU HIEN IDENTIFYING ELEVENTH GRADERS’ LEARNING STYLES IN DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILL AT QUOC HOC HIGH SCHOOL FIELD OF STUDY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CODE: 60.10 MASTER THESIS IN EDUCATION SUPERVISOR: Assoc. PHAN VAN HOA HUE, 2011 2 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐẠI HỌC HUẾ TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC NGOẠI NGỮ ------------- NGUYỄN THỊ DIỆU HIỀN NHẬN BIẾT PHONG CÁCH HỌC TẬP NHẰM PHÁT TRIỂN KĨ NĂNG NGHE CỦA HỌC SINH LỚP 11 TẠI TRƯỜNG THPT QUỐC HỌC CHUYÊN NGÀNH: LÝ LUẬN VÀ PHƯƠNG PHÁP DẠY - HỌC MÔN TIẾNG ANH MÃ SỐ: 60.10 LUẬN VĂN THẠC SĨ GIÁO DỤC HỌC NGƯỜI HƯỚNG DẪN KHOA HỌC: PGS.TS PHAN VĂN HÒA HUẾ, 2011 3 STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP I hereby acknowledge that this study is mine. The data and findings discussed in the thesis are true, used with permission from associates and have not been punished elsewhere. Author Nguyen Thi Dieu Hien 4 I would like to express my first debt of deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Phan Van Hoa Assoc.
PhD for his trusted guidance, generous help and deep encouragement in the fulfillment of this research paper. He was always by my side in moments of difficulties or obstacles. Whenever I lost my direction or will, he appeared in my mind and gave me energy, motivation and optimism to go on. Le Pham Hoai Huong and Dr.
Truong Vien, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for her enthusiastic encouragement and invaluable advice in the early stage of the development of the study. I am severely grateful to my dear friends: Mr. Manus and Mr. Peter Wanner for their precious constructive criticism and helpful support for the completion of my paper.
My truthful thanks go to my teachers at the MA in the Theory and Methodology of English Language Teaching course in the academic year 2009-2011 for their devotion in teaching which stimulated all the students in the class to better their teaching profession and to my classmates for being sincere friends with me during our two school years together. The data collection for my research paper was supported by the teachers and eleventh graders at Quoc Hoc high school. Without their valuable contributions with real and truthful ideas, I could not do well with my research paper. I also want to thank the teachers and students who were willing to spend their time participating in the interviews.
Last but not least, there is no word deserved to express the gratitude to my family and my special friends who are always by my side, encouraging me and most importantly, give my more inspirations to finish the project with a sense of satisfaction. 5 TABLE CONTENT STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TABLE CONTENTS .1 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. 5 LIST OF TABLES. 6 LIST OF FIGURES.
7 LIST OF APPENDICES. Background of the research .2 Rationale for conducting the research. Purpose and significance of the study. Scope of the study and thesis outline.
14 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND. Listening skill and its features. Definitions of listening. The importance of listening skill in communication.
Sub-skills involved in listening. The listening stages. The pre- listening stage. The while- listening stage.
The post- listening stage. Listening is both a top-down and bottom-up process. The principles for teaching listening. The top-down and bottom-up strategies.
Definition of learning styles. Background on learning styles. Classification of learning styles. Learning styles in developing listening skill.
Listening strategies and learning styles. The benefits of identifying learning styles in developing listening skill .3 Some difficulties in teaching listening skill in Vietnam. Kinds of research and research approaches. Data collection methods.
Data analysis methods. 46 CHAPTER 4 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION .