MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING BA RIA – VUNG TAU UNIVERSITY TRAN THI TU NHAN USING VIDEO CLIPS TO ENHANCE ENGLISH STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN PRE-LISTENING STAGE AT PHAM HONG THAI SECONDARY SCHOOL IN BA RIA VUNG TAU CITY MASTER’S THESIS Ba Ria - Vung Tau, March 2023 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING BA RIA – VUNG TAU UNIVERSITY TRAN THI TU NHAN USING VIDEO CLIPS TO ENHANCE ENGLISH STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN PRE-LISTENING STAGE AT PHAM HONG THAI SECONDARY SCHOOL IN BA RIA VUNG TAU CITY MASTER’S THESIS Submitted to the Postgraduate Institute in partial fulfillment of the Master’s degree in TESOL Course code: 8140111 Supervisor’s name: Assoc. PHAM HUU DUC, PhD Ba Ria - Vung Tau, March 2023 i CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I certify my authorship of the Master’s Thesis submitted today entitled: USING VIDEO CLIPS TO ENHANCE ENGLISH STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN PRE-LISTENING STAGE AT PHAM HONG THAI SECONDARY SCHOOL IN BA RIA VUNG TAU CITY In terms of the statement of requirements for Theses in Master’s programs issued by Higher Degree Committee of Postgraduate Institute, Ba Ria Vung Tau University Ba Ria - Vung Tau, March 2023 TRAN THI TU NHAN ii RETENTION AND USE OF THE THESIS I hereby state that I, Tran Thi Tu Nhan, being a candidate for the degree of TESOL accept the requirements of the University relating to the retention and use of Master’s Thesis deposited in the library. In terms of these conditions, I agree that the original of my Master’s Thesis deposited in the library should be accessible for purposes of study and research, in accordance with the normal conditions established by the Librarian for the care, loan, and reproduction for thesis. Ba Ria - Vung Tau, March 2023 Tran Thi Tu Nhan iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank everyone who has encouraged and supported me in completing my thesis.
First of all, I want to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Associate Professor Phạm Hữu Đức, Ph., for his illimitable support. I learned a lot from his serious and thorough attitude towards working, as well as his brilliant mind. I would like to thank all the teachers at the Foreign Languages Department for their invaluable teaching and enormous assistance in illuminating my study path. I also send my special thanks to all faculty and staffs of Pham Hong Thai Secondary School for their invaluable teaching and enormous assistance in illuminating my study path.
In addition, I also would like to give my special thanks to the students at Pham Hong Thai Secondary School who have provided the indispensable with me. I am grateful to my family, whose encouragement and support has been extremely vital to the success of my educational aspirations; they encourage and share my struggle. These people deserve all the praise. I am grateful for all their support and contribution.
iv ABSTRACT Listening is regarded as the most difficult and crucial ability in language learning for communicating in real life, and how to enhance this skill is a big concern for students who are learning foreign languages. The research entitled “Using Video Clips to Enhance English Students’ Participation in Pre-Listening Stage” was carried out with the aim of offering teachers with a deep and understandable attitude listening skills. The purpose of this research is to investigate and utilize language knowledge to motivate students to learn listening. In this thesis, I discuss the background information on students learning listening through video clips, particularly at the pre-listening stage.
Their language learning listening skills are put to use. There is additional discussion of the definitions of listening stages, their background information, and video clips for pre-listening. According to the findings of the data analysis of the survey questionnaire and interview, I discovered that using video clips in the pre-listening motivates students to learn better listening skills. Furthermore, background information is enabled at all stages of the listening process.
I present some ideas for improving the teaching and learning of pre-listening stage in listening skill based on the documentary, the literature review, and the findings of data analysis from the survey questionnaire and interviews. Keywords: pre-listening stage, video clips, students’ participation v TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. Aims of the Study. Key research questions.
Scope of the study. Significance of the study. Struture of the study .3 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW. Definitions of listening skill.
The important of listening skill. Principles for teaching listening. Factors affecting listening skill. Pre-listening stage.
Detailed pre-listening. Definitions of pre-listening. The importance of pre-listening stage. Aim of pre-listening stage.
The role of pre-listening stage. Pre-listening activities. Principles of using pre-listening activities. Use of technology in teaching listening.
Use of video as audio visual aid. The effects of video clips on listening comprehensions. Previous studies about the use of video clips on teaching listening. Data collection instruments.
Data collection procedures. An introduction to the current Basic Tastics for Listening second edition.29 CHAPTER 4: FINDING AND DISCUSSIONS. Overview of the survey. Analysis of questionnaires.
Questionnaires for students. Questionnaires for teachers. Analysis of interviews. Analysis of classroom observation.
Factors making students unwilling to English listening in pre-listening stage. The effectiveness of using video clips to improve students' listening. Limitations of the study .59 viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS NO ABBREVIATIONS MEANING 1 L1 First language 2 L2 Second language 3 EFL English as a foreign language 4 ELT English language teaching 5 GPA Grade Point Average x LIST OF APPENDICES APPENDIX A: Questionaire (English version and Vietnamese version) APPENDIX B: Interviews (English version and Vietnamese version) APPENDIX C: Classroom observation xi LIST OF TABLES Table 4.1: Students questionaires return rate .2: Summary of the results of questions 1 to 2 .3: Students’ attitudes towards learning English listening skill .4: Students’ feelings about listening to the tape after doing pre-listening activities .5: Activities students enjoy in listening lesson .6: Students’ problems in listening lesson.7: The objective factors affecting to learning listening skill in pre-listening stage .8: Using video clips technique in the pre-listening activities in listening process .9: Students access video clips used in pre-listening stage .10: Using visual aids to develop students’ listening skill .11: Thought about using video clips in listening skill .12: Result of class observations (G: Good; NG: not good). 45 xii LIST OF CHARTS Chart 4.1: Students’ developing listening skill .2: Students’ thought about the lessons using video clips in pre- listening.3: Importance of video clips in the pre-listening activities in listening process.
41 xiii １ CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION English is known as the global language, it is presented and used in almost all fields such as Business, Health, Cuisine and Tourism to create opportunities for students who have studied English in learning and working. As a result, teaching English is considered as an important career and gains more and more concerns. Listening is the way to communicate with other people. If you do not understand when you listen, you cannot speak.
While in Viet Nam, English is learned at school and people do not speak this language widely in the society. That is why teaching listening must be focused in school in order for students to speak English well. A student who masters English language uses four English skills: reading, listening, writing and speaking fluently. However, to be able to practice the four skills fluently is not an easy task, especially listening skills.
Almost students in my local area who graduate secondary schools are uncable to communicate with each other in English while being good at doing grammatical exercises, which is not right for the purpose of teaching and learning English. Hence, English is conducted three periods per week, students are cultivated two more periods to learn listening and speaking English. We have easy access to English language in many mediums such as podcasts, video online, etc., not just teach and learn language via the materials on books. The purpose of these form developments for language teaching and learning is to attract attention and create motivation for students.
Being an English teacher, I realize that video clips is helpful for students to concentrate on what they are going to learn in pre-listening stage. “Using video clips to enhance English students ‘participation in pre-listening stage” is chosen as the research topic based on the things mentioned above. ２ A huge previous studies about the use of video clips in teaching listening benefits students by providing background knowledge, maintaining students’ interest and concentration on listening. Through a lot of research studies, a great advantage of digital video technology is the opportunity for teachers to produce videos themselves or to find videos that best match the needs and interests of students to attract students’ participation.
The best way to use video in class is to integrate video into the lesson. The study aims at investigating the effectiveness of using video clips in motivating English students in pre-listening stage at Pham Hong Thai Secondary School with the main goal is to explore whether students studying English via a class period in which video clips are used as the primary teaching tool in pre-listening stage will experience beneficial gains in participation. Moreover, this sheds light on teachers’ recognizability towards how effective this method is to apply in their classes in improving students’ listening comprehension. The research question for this study can be summarized as following: Question 1: What factors make students unwilling to English listening in pre- listening stage? Question 2: Does using video clips help to improve students’ listening comprehension effectively? This study only focuses on applying video clips in pre-listening stage to enhance listening skills for students at Pham Hong Thai Secondary School despite the fact that there are several techniques for improving students’ listening skill, but it is impossible to cover all in this study.
Because of time restriction, the study will not ３ be able to cover all the topics that will help students develop their listening ability in classroom. As a result, it primarily concentrates on daily topics of Basic Tactics for Listening second edition such as movies and shopping, which may be interesting and familiar with students. Questionnaires, interviews, and class observations are used to collect data for the study. This research is expected to help teachers and students in teaching and learning to improve students’ listening skills.
Besides, this method can help students be more interested in learning listening lessons. Moreover, this study also gives a small contribution to the study of effective tools used in pre-listening stage in general and the application of video clips to enhance students’ listening ability at Pham Hong Thai Secondary School in particular. The thesis consists of 5 chapters: Chapter 1: Introduction The rationale, the aim, the scope, the methods, the significance, the research questions, and the organization are presented in this chapter. Chapter 2: Literature review This chapter presents theoretical background of the study including theory related to language listening learning, especially, a review of the theory related to pre- listening.
Chapter 3: Methodology This part presents the method employed to collect data and provides the description of the subjects of the study, the research instrument, and data collection procedures. Chapter 4: Finding and Discussions ４ It presents the author’s finding based on results of the survey questionnaires, interviews, data analysis and provides some suggestions for teachers and students in using video clips in learning pre-listening stage. Chapter 5: Conclusion This chapter holds responsible for providing an overview of the whole, including benefits and limitations of the study as well. By analyzing this information, some recommendations for further research are also suggested.
５ CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Definitions of listening skill Since many researchers and experts in the field of listening suggested numerous various definitions from different perspectives, there is no exact definition for the term ‘listening’. Listening is an essential skill in learning a language and in communication.