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English Methodology

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Ẩn danh

Thể loại

Minor Thesis

2010

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Phí lưu trữ

30 Point

Mục lục chi tiết

1. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Rationale of the study

1.2. Aims of the study

1.3. The scope of the study

1.4. Significance of the study

1.5. Structure of the study

2. CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Language syllabus design

2.2. Syllabus and curriculum

2.3. Some major approaches in designing a syllabus

2.3.1. Synthetic strategy

2.3.2. Analytic strategy

2.4. Three principal types of language syllabus

2.4.1. Structural syllabus

2.4.2. Situational syllabus

2.4.3. Notional-functional syllabus

2.5. Essential steps in designing a language syllabus

3. CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY

3.1. The setting of the study

3.2. Data collection methods

3.3. Mock speaking test

3.4. Data collection procedure

4. CHAPTER FOUR: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

4.1. The student‟s expectations towards teachers of pronunciation

4.2. Students‟ expectations towards materials exploited in pronunciation

4.3. Students‟ attitude towards the pronunciation

4.4. Students‟ problems with English pronunciation

4.4.1. Students‟ problems with English consonants

4.4.2. Students‟ problems with English vowel

4.4.3. Students‟ problems with English weak forms / linkage words

4.4.4. Students‟ problems with English stress / intonation

4.5. Teachers‟ perception of teaching pronunciation and their assessment of the existing materials

4.6. Curricular and Materials Analysis

5. CHAPTER FIVE: A PROPOSED SYLLABUS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

5.1. Goals and objectives

5.2. Accuracy and Fluency in teaching pronunciation

5.3. Teaching pronunciation on the level of Accuracy

5.3.1. Teaching individual sounds

5.3.2. Teaching problematic consonants

5.4. Teaching pronunciation on the level of fluency

5.5. Stress and Rhythm

6. CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION

6.1. Implications of the study for teaching English pronunciation

6.2. Awareness of the importance of teaching and learning pronunciation

6.3. Relation between pronunciation and other aspects of language

6.4. Limitations and recommendations for future research

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1: Questionnaire for the first-year students at UNETI

APPENDIX 2: The mock speaking test

APPENDIX 3: Questions for interview for teachers

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1 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES ***************** TRẦN THỊ QUỲNH FROM NEEDS ANALYSIS TO DESIGNING A COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION SYLLABUS FOR THE FIRST YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES PHÂN TÍCH NHU CẦU NHẰM THIẾT KẾ MỘT CHƯƠNG TRÌNH PHÁT ÂM TIẾNG ANH CHO SINH VIÊN KHÔNG CHUYÊN NĂM THỨ NHẤT TẠI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC KINH TẾ - KỸ THUẬT CÔNG NGHIỆP M. Minor Thesis Field: English Methodology Code: 60 14 10 HANOI – 2010 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 2 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES ***************** TRẦN THỊ QUỲNH FROM NEEDS ANALYSIS TO DESIGNING A COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION SYLLABUS FOR THE FIRST YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC AND TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES PHÂN TÍCH NHU CẦU NHẰM THIẾT KẾ MỘT CHƯƠNG TRÌNH PHÁT ÂM TIẾNG ANH CHO SINH VIÊN KHÔNG CHUYÊN NĂM THỨ NHẤT TẠI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC KINH TẾ - KỸ THUẬT CÔNG NGHIỆP M. Minor Thesis Field: English Methodology Code: 60 14 10 Supervisor: Nguyễn Minh Huệ, M.A HANOI – 2010 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration . iii Table of contents . iv Lists of tables and charts . vii List of abbreviation . ix CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. Rational of the study . Aims of the study . Scope of the study . Significance of the study . Structure of the study. 3 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Language syllabus design . 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Syllabus and curriculum . Some major approaches in designing a syllabus . Three principal types of language syllabus . Notional-functional syllabus . Essential steps in designing a language syllabus . Selecting and grading content . Selecting the content . Grading the content . Selecting and grading tasks and activities . 11 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Communicative pronunciation teaching . Pronunciation and communicative teaching . History and scope of teaching English pronunciation . 13 CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY 3. The setting of the study . Data collection methods . Mock speaking test . Data collection procedure . 18 CHAPTER FOUR: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 4. The student‟s expectations towards teachers of pronunciation . Students‟ expectations towards materials exploited in pronunciation . Students‟ attitude towards the pronunciation . Students‟ problems with English pronunciation . Students‟ problems with English consonants . Students‟ problems with English vowel . Students‟ problems with English weak forms / linkage words . Students‟ problems with English stress / intonation . Teachers‟ perception of teaching pronunciation and their assessment of the existing materials . 27 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Curricular and Materials Analysis . 29 CHAPTER FIVE: A PROPOSED SYLLABUS OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION 5. Goals and objectives . Accuracy and Fluency in teaching pronunciation. Teaching pronunciation on the level of Accuracy . Teaching individual sounds . Teaching problematic consonants . Teaching pronunciation on the level of fluency . Stress and Rhythm . 40 CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION 6. Implications of the study for teaching English pronunciation . Awareness of the importance of teaching and learning pronunciation . Relation between pronunciation and other aspects of language 43 6. Limitations and recommendations for future research . 44 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 10 LISTS OF TABLES AND CHARTS Tables Table 1: The faults in producing English vowels of the first-year students Table 2: The faults in weak forms and linkage words Table 3: The faults in stress and intonation Table 4: English curricular of the students at full-time University level Charts Chart 1: The student‟s expectations towards teachers of pronunciation Chart 2: The student‟s expectations towards materials exploited in pronunciation Chart 3: The importance of learning English pronunciation Chart 4: The purposes of learning English pronunciation Chart 5: The students‟ difficulties of pronunciation Chart 6: English consonants sound that the students mispronounced. Chart 7: The importance of teaching English pronunciation to the students Chart 8: The teachers‟ evaluation of students‟ pronunciation Chart 9: The quality of pronunciation parts in the existing textbook Chart 10: The aspects relating to pronunciation in the existing textbook LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 11 LISTS OF ABBREVIATION EFL: English Foreign Language ELT: English Language Teaching FLD: Foreign Language Department N.P: Number of Participants UNETI: University of Economic and Technical Industries APPENDICES APPENDIX 1: Questionnaire for the first-year students at UNETI APPENDIX 2: The mock speaking test APPENDIX 3: Questions for interview for teachers LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 12 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study English together with Russian and French has been taught in Vietnamese universities, colleges and schools for the last few decades. However, unlike the past misconception that focused mainly on writing and grammar, nowadays the emphasis in language teaching has changed to give spoken English the same status as written English, and the communicative language teaching is considered as a predominant approach. This means that in order to reach a good degree of efficiency in teaching English, besides other skills teachers should pay more attention to speaking and need perceive that speaking requires not only vocabulary but also an accurate pronunciation. Nowadays, of all the language teaching approaches, it has been proved that the communicative language teaching has its predominant role. This predominance over other approaches to language teaching has led to the increasingly important role of teaching pronunciation. In communication, correct pronunciation is a must. One can not communicate without reasonable pronunciation. In other words, if the mastery of English sounds and pronunciation is not achieved, it may lead to the misunderstanding and the communication between people may even be broken down. Pronunciation is so important, that is why, higher and higher priority is given to teaching and learning pronunciation. Teaching pronunciation is no less important than teaching English grammar, vocabulary, or any other aspects of language. As a consequence, learning English pronunciation is given high priority by students of English in general and by students at University of Economic and Technical Industries (UNETI) in particular. One of the difficulties that the teachers of English at our University have to cope with is the first – year students‟ habit of pronouncing English words incorrectly. Most of the students, before entering the University, have had several years of learning English at school, but in fact, the school teachers don‟t pay much attention to teaching pronunciation. Perhaps, one reason for it is that they don‟t have enough time. Most of the time is used to teach Grammar and other language skills. Another reason is that they think their students will have to take examination only in written form before leaving school, even the entrance LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 13 exams to universities or colleges are never taken orally. As a result, the emphasis has been shifted away from teaching speaking skill, including teaching pronunciation and many school leavers can not pronounce English words, even simple words, correctly. They have no ideas of stress, intonation, or rhythm etc…Moreover, our current English materials are New Headway and Toeic so pronunciation parts in these materials are insufficient, unspecific and unsuitable for students at UNETI. In addition, there has not been any research, up to now, on the subject of teaching and learning pronunciation at UNETI. From all the reasons mentioned above, I have chosen the topic “From needs analysis to designing a communicative pronunciation syllabus for the first year non-major English at UNETI”. Aims of the study The research is aimed at investigating the students‟ expectations and their attitude towards pronunciation learning, the problems in learning English pronunciation, the teachers‟ perception of teaching pronunciation and their evaluation of the existing materials. Based on the findings, the study also aimed to design a 30-period pronunciation syllabus appropriate and workable for the first-year students at full-time University level at UNETI. To achieve the aforementioned aims, the following research questions are set out to be answered: 1. What are the students‟ expectations towards the teachers of pronunciation and materials exploited in pronunciation? 2. What are the students‟ attitudes towards pronunciation learning? 3. What problems do the students encounter in learning pronunciation? 4. What are the teachers‟ perception of teaching pronunciation and their evaluation of the existing materials? 1. The scope of the study UNETI is a University which has two headquarters (one in Nam Dinh and the other in Hanoi) and it trains students at different levels including university, college, vocational high school and technical workers. However, this study only focused on the first-year students at full-time University level in Nam Dinh City. In addition, the pronunciation is a complex problem composing a number of components, but this study is confined to only some basic elements such as sounds, stress linkage, rhythm and intonation. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Significance of the study Even though pronunciation is troublesome for most English learners, it is surprising that there is not much investigation into this problem. This research provides an insight into the common pronunciation problems that most of the Vietnamese students who are studying English as their major encounter regarding English pronunciation and the needs analysis of students and teachers at UNETI. From that, I would like to design a communicative pronunciation syllabus to help students improve their pronunciation. The results of the research will be, therefore, much beneficial to both teachers and students of English. Structure of the study The study consists of six chapters: Chapter 1 is concerned with the rationale, the aims, the scope, the method, the significance and the structure of the study. Chapter 2 has two main parts: part one is concerned with some major approaches in syllabus design and essential steps in designing a syllabus. Part two describes the communicative pronunciation teaching. Chapter 3 describes the current situation of teaching and learning pronunciation of the first-year students at UNETI as the setting of the study. Furthermore, the method using questionnaires, discussion, mock speaking test and interview is discussed in terms of its purposes as well as how they were developed and used in the study. Chapter 4 analyzes the data of the first-students at full time University level, the teachers of Foreign Language Department and the materials used here as the first step in designing the syllabus for the first-year students at UNETI. Chapter 5 introduces goals, objectives, the content of the proposed syllabus of English pronunciation, some suggested methods of teaching and a test sample. Chapter 6 summarizes the main issues, and then gives some suggestions for further research and the implications for English pronunciation teaching in English are made. LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 15 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Language syllabus design Language syllabus design is an area of applied linguistics. It is a comparatively new area that has come into prominence since the early 1970s. In this part I would like to give a general review of syllabus design and then the distinction between syllabus and curriculum. This will be the discussion of two terms which are confused, followed by some of the major trends in syllabus design, and the essential steps in designing a language syllabus. Syllabus and curriculum Syllabus and curriculum are two terms which are confused. That is why they need to be reexamined and clarified. Candlin (1984) suggests that curriculum is concerned with making general statements about language learning, learning purposes and experience, evaluation and the role relationships of teachers and learners. Syllabus, on the other hand, is more localized and is based on accounts and records of what actually happens at the classroom level as teachers and learners apply a good curriculum to their own situation.

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