BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG. ------------------------------- ISO 9001:2015 KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Nguyễn Thị Hà Phương Giảng viên hướng dẫn : Th.s Phan Thị Mai Hương HẢI PHÒNG - 2019 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- A STUDY ON DICTATION METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP ĐẠI HỌC HỆ CHÍNH QUY NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên : Nguyễn Thị Hà Phương Giảng viên hướng dẫn: Th.s Phan Thị Mai Hương HAI PHONG - 2019 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC DÂN LẬP HẢI PHÒNG -------------------------------------- NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Sinh viên: Nguyễn Thị Hà Phương Mã SV: 1412751052 Lớp: NA1802 Ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh Tên đề tài: A study on dictation method to improve students’ listening skill NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI 1. Nội dung và các yêu cầu cần giải quyết trong nhiệm vụ đề tài tốt nghiệp (về lý luận, thực tiễn, các số liệu cần tính toán và các bản vẽ). Các số liệu cần thiết để thiết kế, tính toán.
Địa điểm thực tập tốt nghiệp. CÁN BỘ HƯỚNG DẪN ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Người hướng dẫn thứ nhất: Họ và tên: Phan Thị Mai Hương Học hàm, học vị: Thạc sĩ Cơ quan công tác: Đại học Dân lập Hải Phòng Nội dung hướng dẫn: A study on dictation method to improve students’ listening skill Người hướng dẫn thứ hai: Họ và tên ::. Học hàm, học vị :. Nội dung hướng dẫn:.
Đề tài tốt nghiệp được giao ngày 18 tháng 07 năm 2019 Yêu cầu phải hoàn thành xong trước ngày 21 tháng 09 năm 2019 Đã nhận nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Đã giao nhiệm vụ ĐTTN Sinh viên Người hướng dẫn Hải Phòng, ngày .năm 2019 Hiệu trưởng GS.NGƯT Trần Hữu Nghị CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc PHIẾU NHẬN XÉT CỦA GIẢNG VIÊN HƯỚNG DẪN TỐT NGHIỆP Họ và tên giảng viên:. Họ và tên sinh viên:. Chuyên ngành:. Nội dung hướng dẫn:.
Tinh thần thái độ của sinh viên trong quá trình làm đề tài tốt nghiệp. Đánh giá chất lượng của đồ án/khóa luận (so với nội dung yêu cầu đã đề ra trong nhiệm vụ Đ.N trên các mặt lý luận, thực tiễn, tính toán số liệu…). Ý kiến của giảng viên hướng dẫn tốt nghiệp Được bảo vệ Không được bảo vệ Điểm hướng dẫn Hải Phòng, ngày … tháng … năm. Giảng viên hướng dẫn (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên) QC20-B18 CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc PHIẾU NHẬN XÉT CỦA GIẢNG VIÊN CHẤM PHẢN BIỆN Họ và tên giảng viên:.
Họ và tên sinh viên:. Chuyên ngành:. Đề tài tốt nghiệp:. Phần nhận xét của giáo viên chấm phản biện.
Những mặt còn hạn chế. Ý kiến của giảng viên chấm phản biện Được bảo vệ Không được bảo vệ Điểm phản biện Hải Phòng, ngày … tháng … năm. Giảng viên chấm phản biện (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên) QC20-B19 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It would not have been possible for me to finish this graduation thesis without help and support from the kind people around me, to only some of whom I can give particular mention here. First and foremost, I am indebted to my supervisor, Ms.
Phan Thi Mai Huong for the continuous support of my thesis, for her patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. Throughout my thesis- writing period, she provided encouragement, sound advice, good teaching, good company, and lots of good ideas. I would have been lost without her. It is difficult to overstate my gratitude to teachers in Foreign Languages Department.
They build the initial foundation of my knowledge and offer me the opportunity to complete my graduation thesis. In my work, I have been blessed with a stimulating and fun environment in which to learn and grow provided by my many friends. My sincere thanks go to them for helping me get through the difficult times, and for all the emotional support, entertainment, and caring they provided. Last but not least, to my family, I bid them hearty thanks.
They have been a solid anchor on which I rely again and again. Words cannot express how grateful I am to be in their support and how much this work was enhanced and made easier by them being in mine. Hai Phong, August 2019 Nguyen Thi Ha Phuong i TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements. i Table of contents.
ii List of abbreviations. iv List of tables. iv Part One: Introduction. Aims of the study.
Methods of the study. Scope of the study. Design of the study. 3 Part Two: Development.
4 Chapter I: Literature Review. An overview of listening. Definition of listening. The importance of listening.
Types of listening .5 Difficulties in listening. Definition of Dictation. The advantages and disadvantages of Dictation. The advantages of Dictation.
The disadvantages of Dictation. 12 Chapter II: Methodology. Data collection instruments and procedure. 15 Chapter III: Findings and discussion .Students’ Number of Years in studying English.
Students’ views about the importance of listening. Students’ Views of Listening Activities. Students’ Level in Listening. Reasons for Students’ Weak Level in English.
Reasons of Students’ Weak Level in Listening. Solutions to Students’ Listening Difficulties. The Use of Dictation in the Classroom. Frequency of Using Dictation.
Areas of Students’ Improvements. The Role of Dictation in Developing Listening. Types of Dictation Exercises Used by the Teacher. Implications from students’ questionnaire.
31 Part Three: Conclusion. Limitations of the study. Recommendations for further study. 37 iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS EFL English as a Foreign Language LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Students’ Number of Years in studying English Table 2 Students’ views about the importance of listening Table 3 Students’ Views of Listening Activities Table 4 Students’ Level in Listening Table 5 Reasons for Students’ Weak Level in English Table 6 Reasons of Students’ Weak Level in Listening Table 7 Solutions to Students’ Listening Difficulties Table 8 The Use of Dictation in the Classroom Table 9 Frequency of Using Dictation Table 10 Areas of Students’ Improvements Table 11 The Role of Dictation in Developing Listening Table 12 Types of Dictation Exercises Used by the Teacher iv PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.
Rationale Nowadays, together with growth of global connection, English language has become more and more important. Especially in Vietnam, learning English seems to be one of main tasks of students. In this process, they encounter a large number of difficulties. One of them is listening skill.
One of the aspects in learning a foreign language is listening. Listening plays an important role in the language learning. It is a demanding process, not only because of the complexity of the process itself but also due to the facts that characterize the listener, the speaker, the content of the message and any visual support that accompanies the message. Listening provides the necessary input for learners to acquire the language needed for practicing a language.
Listening is the skill that is used most often. It has been claimed that students receive nearly 90 percent of their school-based information through listening to instructors and to one another (Schwartz, 1998)and that more than 50 percent of the time they spend functioning in a foreign language will be devoted to it (Nunan, 1998). Yet the skill of listening remains underappreciated; it may be the least understood and most overlooked of the four skills in the language classroom. Unlike other language skills such as reading and writing, which can be observed directly, listening is an abstract, intricate process of hearing, identifying, understanding and interpreting spoken language.
Many students have significant problems with listening. The speed of utterances, the reduced forms of natural English, the use of intonation for meaning, and unfamiliar accents, all take their tools and it is essential to give learners at all levels plenty of practice. Therefore the choice of appropriate method is a great significance in developing listening skills and improving student’s overall language learning. Dictation is one of teaching technique which might be used for any level.
Flowerdew and Miller (2005: 200) defines dictation as a simple technique that the listener listens to an oral text and write down what they hear, the passage may be presented more than once and it needs to be presented in segments or information units. 1 The focus of this study is to highlight the importance of dictation as a technique and to prove that this technique has the potential for learners’. The researcher attempts to investigate the effectiveness of using dictation and eventually foster their listening abilities to become competent and autonomous listeners. Thus, the topic “A study on dictation method to improve students’ listening skill” is chosen.
Aims of the study This study aims to explore the role of dictation as a technique in developing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ listening and: - To investigate whether the use of dictation as a technique is useful in developing students listening or not. - In addition to find out how students would respond to dictation as a teaching technique and to attract teachers’ attention towards the effectiveness of dictation as a technique in improving listening ability. Methods of the study Considering all the characteristics, this paper made great use of both quantitative method. A quantitative took full advantage of using the structured questions where response options are predetermined and a large number of respondents are involved to explore students’ attitudes towards their listening skill and their difficulties in listening to English as well as their expectations to their teachers.
In terms of this methods, the questionnaire is designed as a means for researcher to collect data. Questionnaires are more convenient, take less time, cheap and easy for students to answer. Questionnaires included closed and open-ended questions. The questionnaire is given to students of the second-year students of foreign languages department.
As they are in their second academic year, they often experience such problems. It is stage that students should be equipped with variety of techniques right from their early listening. With appropriate strategies, they will have built up their listening skill by the time. 2 After gathering all the results of questionnaire with answers, the method of analyzing data is applied.
Scope of the study The sample of this research was limited to second year students who are studying English major at 2 universities which are Haiphong Private University and Vietnam Maritime University. This research is limited to a specific number of students. The researcher decided to choose 40 students (15 students in Haiphong Private University and 25 students in Vietnam Maritime University). This population will be chosen randomly.
Questionnaires are given out when students finish their class at universities. Design of the study This study is composed of three main parts: Part one is the introduction which consists of rationale, aims, study methods, the scope and design of the study. Part two is the development – the main part of this paper which is divided into three chapters : Chapter I is the literature review Chapter II shows detailed explanation of the methodology Chapter III shows the findings and discussion Part three is the conclusion which summarizes what was given in previous parts as well as some limitations of the study and recommendations for further study. 3 PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW I.
An overview of listening I.