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MINOR THESIS Ficld: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60. 10 Tlanoi — 2012 TABLE OF CONTENT Declaration .ies tsveries imsens ensecsestan es nse ved Acknowledgements ii " seeesreeruue bid " "—. List of abbreviations vii List 0Ÿ tables. co th mm enerrraee a.
Aims 6F the SIUđÿ. cà sọ HH 1e wl 3. Signilicanee of the sludy 3 5. Seope o£ the SEUẦy.
Method of the study. Organization of the study PART B: DEVELOPMENT. CILAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW. Conceptions of motivation.
Classification of motivation in language teaching — learning 4 1. Conceptions of demotivation. Student demotivating factors in foreign language teaching — learning, 1. Student-related factors.
Teacher-related factors 1. Teaching and learning conditions 1 1. Related issucs of ESP. Delimitions of ESP.
Classification of ESP. Overview of study on demotivation. CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .U Research questions and design. Setting of the study.
Questionnaire for stuđenits. Interview for students. Inlcrview [or teachers 34 2. che Heieree 25 CILAPTER 3: RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS.
Data analysis of students’ survey questionnaire and interview for students. Personal information of the students taking part in the survey 36 3. Student-related demotivating factors. Teacher-related đemotivating, ÍactOTs.
Teaching and learning conditions. The course book. se che vol 3. Solutions to help students overcome their demativation.
Dala analysis of the interview [or teachers. Discussions of findings on factors that demotivate students to study ESP at SDL. Studert-relaled factors 36 PART A: INTRODUCTION 1, Rationale Motivation 18 one of the crucial learner factors affecting foreign language teaching - learning and therefore has been abundantly explored in the field of English as a Foreign Language teaching and learning. Many researchers have also examined motivalion and ils negalive side, dormotivation in Isachmg and learning general English in universities.
However, few researchers have directed their attention to demotivation students tend to carry in the course of learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP) although English continues to dormimate as the lingua franca of business, technology, medicine, media, education and research, As a result, the demand of ESP is growing rapidly in many countries including Vietnam which has become a member of WTO and has witnessed unprecedented growih im communications with other countries. In response to the great demand of English in academic, vocational and professional contexts, more and more universities in Vietnam are offermg ESP courses to meel. the global tend as well as to meet students” future career needs, Sac Do University is not an exception. All students at Sao Do Umversily must pass examinalions in ESP to graduate, but many are failing to study it successfully.
Based on my experience of teaching LSP, linglish for Lilectronics, for 3 years, T have found that many Elecironics-major studsnis do nol seem ever to have developed any interest in learning ESP or if they have, they seem to have lost that interest for some reasons, that is, they have become demotivated in ISP classes. In both cases, their achievement in ESP classes has been negatively affected. For this reason, I decided to study factors demotivating the Hlectronics-major students in LSP classes at Sao Do University, so that effective solutions can be found to help my students gel. betler resulls in learning ESP.
2, Aims of the study The study was carried out with an aim to help my students get better results in lcarning FSP. It, therefore, was designed 1o meet, the following objectives LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS SP: linglish for Specific Purposes BOP: English for Occupational Purposes GE; General Eing lish L2: Second Language SPU: Sao Do University TEFL; Teaching English as a Foreign Language 3. Teacher-rclatcd ẨactOIä. ‘he course back 3.
The Leachers’ perception of the demolivalors im ESP cl PART €C: CONCLUSION. Pedagogical implications 40 3, Limitations of the study .cccsscsenssensenesses sine sntsieenantsiansinenssasoneensensts 4 4, Directions for further research - - - - 42 'REFERENCES. vi LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Students’ profiles (Total number of students: 89) Table 2: Student-related demotivating factors Table 3: Teacher-rclated demotivating factors.
‘Table 4: ‘Teaching and learning conditions Table 5: The course book vi 6. Method of the study ‘The study used mixed methods for data collection and analysis. Survey Qquesiormaire for students and semi-structured mlerviews were used The questionnaire for students and semi- structured interviews were used to get students’ opinions on their demotivation factors in learning ESP. Semi-structured interviews for (cachers were also used to find out their ideas about factors demotivating their students in ESP classes.
Organization of the study The study consists of three parls. Part A, INIRODUCTION, presents the rationale, aim of the study, significance of the study, scoG5S pe of the study, method of the study and organization of the study Part B, DEVELOPMENT, includes three main chapters Chapter 1, LITERATURE REVIEW, presents theoretical background on molivation, and domotivation im language learnmg. The main issucs relaled lo ESP are also presented in this chapter. Chaplor 2, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, presents the methodology used in the study, Chapter 3, RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS, gives a detailed presentation of data and detailed description of dala analysis.
The implications of the study are also given in this chapter. Part C, CONCLUSION, is a review of the study. Furthermore, this part also points out the limitations of the study and provides some directions for further studies. LIST OF TABLES Table 1.
Students’ profiles (Total number of students: 89) Table 2: Student-related demotivating factors Table 3: Teacher-rclated demotivating factors. ‘Table 4: ‘Teaching and learning conditions Table 5: The course book vi 6. Method of the study ‘The study used mixed methods for data collection and analysis. Survey Qquesiormaire for students and semi-structured mlerviews were used The questionnaire for students and semi- structured interviews were used to get students’ opinions on their demotivation factors in learning ESP.
Semi-structured interviews for (cachers were also used to find out their ideas about factors demotivating their students in ESP classes. Organization of the study The study consists of three parls. Part A, INIRODUCTION, presents the rationale, aim of the study, significance of the study, scoG5S pe of the study, method of the study and organization of the study Part B, DEVELOPMENT, includes three main chapters Chapter 1, LITERATURE REVIEW, presents theoretical background on molivation, and domotivation im language learnmg. The main issucs relaled lo ESP are also presented in this chapter.
Chaplor 2, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, presents the methodology used in the study, Chapter 3, RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS, gives a detailed presentation of data and detailed description of dala analysis. The implications of the study are also given in this chapter. Part C, CONCLUSION, is a review of the study. Furthermore, this part also points out the limitations of the study and provides some directions for further studies.
- to identify factors that demotivate Electronics-major students in ESP classes at Sao Do University. - lo give suggestions and recommendations to ESP leachers/sludents at Sac Do University, on the basis of the findings, for even better ESP teaching - learning 3. Rescarch questions Tn order to achieve the above-mentioned objectives, the following rescarch questions were asked in the study: Question J: What are the factors that demotivate Hlectronios-major students in ESP classes al Sao Do Universily? Question 2: What should be done to minimize these factors and help students overcame their demotivation? 4, Significance of the study The study is the first investigation of demotivators in leaming English for Electronics at Sao Do University. The proposed study provides students, of English for Floetronies in parlicnlar, al Sao Do University wilh solutions to overcome their demotivation in HSP classes.
In addition, the proposed study will help ESP teachers al Sao Do University to have a deeper understanding of their students in ESP classes. Thus, they will be able to make suitable changes and adjustments in ther teaching Linglish for Lilectronics to motivate their students for even better results. The proposed sludy will benclit and help future researchers specializing in LSP and motivation with meaningful insights from the findings. Scope of the study The study is limited in scope of finding out factors that demotivate the Llectronics-major students in ESP classes at Sao Do University.
The subjects chosen for this study were 89 Electronic-major students at Sao Do University who have jusl finished ESP. carmot be said thal the results of this study are generalized to the demotivation of other non-Linglish-major students in ESP classes at Sao Do University as well as in other universities in Vietnam - to identify factors that demotivate Electronics-major students in ESP classes at Sao Do University. - lo give suggestions and recommendations to ESP leachers/sludents at Sac Do University, on the basis of the findings, for even better ESP teaching - learning 3. Rescarch questions Tn order to achieve the above-mentioned objectives, the following rescarch questions were asked in the study: Question J: What are the factors that demotivate Hlectronios-major students in ESP classes al Sao Do Universily? Question 2: What should be done to minimize these factors and help students overcame their demotivation? 4, Significance of the study The study is the first investigation of demotivators in leaming English for Electronics at Sao Do University.
The proposed study provides students, of English for Floetronies in parlicnlar, al Sao Do University wilh solutions to overcome their demotivation in HSP classes. In addition, the proposed study will help ESP teachers al Sao Do University to have a deeper understanding of their students in ESP classes. Thus, they will be able to make suitable changes and adjustments in ther teaching Linglish for Lilectronics to motivate their students for even better results. The proposed sludy will benclit and help future researchers specializing in LSP and motivation with meaningful insights from the findings.
Scope of the study The study is limited in scope of finding out factors that demotivate the Llectronics-major students in ESP classes at Sao Do University. The subjects chosen for this study were 89 Electronic-major students at Sao Do University who have jusl finished ESP. carmot be said thal the results of this study are generalized to the demotivation of other non-Linglish-major students in ESP classes at Sao Do University as well as in other universities in Vietnam 6. Method of the study ‘The study used mixed methods for data collection and analysis.
Survey Qquesiormaire for students and semi-structured mlerviews were used The questionnaire for students and semi- structured interviews were used to get students’ opinions on their demotivation factors in learning ESP. Semi-structured interviews for (cachers were also used to find out their ideas about factors demotivating their students in ESP classes. Organization of the study The study consists of three parls. Part A, INIRODUCTION, presents the rationale, aim of the study, significance of the study, scoG5S pe of the study, method of the study and organization of the study Part B, DEVELOPMENT, includes three main chapters Chapter 1, LITERATURE REVIEW, presents theoretical background on molivation, and domotivation im language learnmg.
The main issucs relaled lo ESP are also presented in this chapter. Chaplor 2, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, presents the methodology used in the study, Chapter 3, RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS, gives a detailed presentation of data and detailed description of dala analysis. The implications of the study are also given in this chapter.