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Luận văn tiếng Anh: Factors affecting reading comprehension of English for computer science of the second year students at Vinh Technical Teachers' Training University = Những yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến việc đọc hiểu tiếng Anh chuyên ngành tin học của sinh viên năm thứ hai ở trường Đại học Sư phạm Kỹ thuật Vinh. M.A Thesis Linguistics: 60 14 10
Nhà xuất bản: University of Languages and International Studies
Ngày: 2010
Chủ đề: Đọc hiểu
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Miêu tả: 40 p. + CD-ROM
M.A Thesis English teaching methodology -- University of Languages and International Studies. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 2010
Declaration ………………………………………………………………………………… i
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………… ii
Abstract………………………………………………………………………………… …iii
List of abbreviations……………………………………………………………………… iv
List of figures and tables …………………………………………………………………..v
Table of contents ………………………………………………………………………….vi
Part A: Introduction ……………………………………………………………………..1
1. Rationale ………………………………………………………………………… ...1
2. Aims of the study ………………………………………………………………….2
3. Methods of the study……………………………………………………………… 2
4. Scope of the study ………………………………………………………………... 2
5. Organization of the thesis ………………………………………………………… 2
Part B: Development ……………………………………………………………………. 4
Chapter 1: Theoretical background …………………………………………………….4
1.1. The nature of reading ……………………………………………………………. 4
1.1.1. Definitions of reading and reading comprehension……………………… 4
1.1.2. Classification of reading according to purpose of reading ………………. 5
1.1.3. Reading in General English and in ESP …………………………………. 6
1.2. ESP reading ……………………………………………………………………… 7
1.2.1. Definitions of ESP ……………………………………………………….. 7
1.2.2. Reading skills in ESP ……………………………………………………..8
1.2.3. Factors in teaching and learning ESP reading …………………………… 8
1.2.3.1. ESP teachers and their roles ………………………………………... 8
1.2.3.2. ESP students and their roles ………………………………………... 9
1.2.3.3. ESP materials and their roles ……………………………………… 10
1.3. ESP reading difficulties for foreign language learners …………………………10
1.3.1. Reading skills problems …………………………………………………11
1.3.2. Language problems …………………………………………………….. 11
1.4. Summary ……………………………………………………………………… .. 12
Chapter 2: Investigation into the current situation of teaching and learning English
for Computer Science at Vinh Technical Teachers’ training University ( VTTTU )
2.1. Introduction of the VTTTU ……………………………………………………. 13
2.2. The teachers and their teaching methods ………………………………………. 13
2.3. The students and their background …………………………………………….. 14
2.4. The teaching and learning English at VTTTU …………………………………. 14
2.5. The present ESP syllabus and materials …………………………………………15
Chapter 3: The study ………………………………………………………………….. 16
3.1. Research questions ………………………………………………………………16
3.2. Participants ………………………………………………………………………16
3.3. The data collection method ……………………………………………………...16
3.4. The data collection procedure ………………………………………………….. 17
3.5. Data analysis …………………………………………………………………… 17
3.5.1. Factors affecting reading English for Computer Science at VTTTU ………18
3.5.1.1. The participants’ background …………………………………………18
3.5.1.2. Students’ attitudes towards ESP reading ……………………………...19
3.5.1.3. The reading materials ………………………………………………. . 21
3.5.1.4. The teachers and teaching methods …………………………………. 23
3.5.2. The learners’ expectation in terms of ESP materials ……………………… 25
3.5.3. The learners’ expectation in terms of teaching methodology ………………26
3.6. Summary ……………………………………………………………………… .. 28
Chapter 4: Recommendations to improve the quality of the teaching and learning to
read English for CS at VTTTU …………………………………………………………29
4.1. Improving teachers’ classroom techniques …………………………………….. 29
4.1.1. Increasing students’ reading interest and motivation …………………… 29
4.1.2. Applying different approaches to teach vocabulary ……………………… 29
4.2. Training students to become efficient readers ………………………………….. 30
4.2.1. Training students with different reading strategies ………………………..30
4.2.2. Encouraging students to develop extensive reading habits ………………..32
4.2.3. Giving homework and checking the previous lessons frequently …………32
4.3. Improving teachers’ background knowledge about CS and teaching methodology
4.3.1. Improving teachers’ background knowledge about CS ……………………33
4.3.2. Improving teachers’ teaching methodology ……………………………… 33
4.4. Developing E CS reading materials ……………………………………………. 34
4.4.1. Adapting and improving reading exercises ………………………………...34
4.4.2. Choosing supplementary reading materials ………………………………. 35
4.5. Summary ……………………………………………………………………… .. 35
Part C: Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………..36
1. Conclusions of the study …………………………………………………………..36
2. Limitations of the study and Suggestions for Further study ……………………... 37
References ………………………………………………………………………………. 38
Appendices ………………………………………………………………………………..I
PART A: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale
English learning has been popular in Vietnam over the last few decades. Especially,
learning English has become a burgeoning need when Vietnam fosters its international
relations. Everyday an increasing number of people learn and use English for different
purposes.
In teaching and learning English as a foreign language in Vietnam, English for
Specific Purposes (ESP) has recently received a great deal of attention. It has been
introduced in the training curriculum at almost every university in Vietnam as recognition
of the increasing importance of the language as a tool to Giúp students access information
and technological advancements of the world. One of the main objectives of the ESP
program is to develop the students‟ skills in accessing, analyzing, and evaluating critically
the information available for their career purposes. Therefore, being able to read in a
foreign language, especially in English is often important to academic studies, professional
success and personal development. It is obvious that reading is given the most important
account for the students of Information Technology. That is because reading is not only the
important means to get knowledge but also means of further study. By means of English,
the learners can take it professionally in their future work as well as reading their
specialized materials. It is completely true for the students of IT.
At VTTTU, after finishing three semesters of GE, the students of IT department
begin to take 60 ESP periods of CS.
Being an ESP teacher of CS, the researcher has always been aware of the importance
of developing the reading skills for IT students. If the students read well, they are able to
handle subjects related written materials in English and to work with modern technological
equipments. But in fact, despite of the effort of the teachers and students, the researcher
finds her students‟ reading skills disappointed, which do not meet the requirements of the
college and they have a lot of difficulties in reading English for CS.
For all the above reasons, the researcher would like to find out the factors affecting
reading comprehension of English for CS of the second year students at VTTTU. It is
hoped that the study will make some suggestions for teachers and students to improve the
quality of teaching and learning English for CS at VTTTU.
2. Aims of the study
The study aims to examine the factors affecting reading comprehension of English
for Computer Science of the second year students at VTTTU. To be more specific, the
objectives of the study are:
- To examine the students‟ attitudes towards ESP reading.
- To investigate the current situation of teaching and learning English for CS at
VTTTU in order to find out the factors affecting reading comprehension of English for CS
of the second year students at VTTTU.
- To investigate the learners‟ needs in terms of reading materials and methodology.
- To give some recommendations to improve the quality of teaching and learning
English for CS at VTTTU.
It is hoped that the findings from this study will be of some benefits to teachers and
students at VTTTU.
3. Method of the study
In order to achieve the aims mentioned above, the methodologies adopted for this
study are a survey questionnaire with 100 students which is used as the main method to
collect the needed data from the learners and informal interviews and discussions with the
teachers as well as the researcher‟s observation during the course.
4. Scope of the study
The study mainly focuses on the investigation of factors most affecting reading
comprehension of English for Computer Science of the second year students at VTTTU,
and then suggests some techniques to Giúp them improve their ESP reading.
5. Organization of the thesis
This minor thesis consists of three parts: Introduction, Development and Conclusion.
The first part concludes the rationale for the study, the aims, the methods, and the scope of
the study as well as the organization of the thesis.
The second part consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the theoretical
background to the nature of reading and reading comprehension and reading in ESP
teaching and learning. Chapter 2 investigates the current situation of teaching and learning
English for CS at VTTTU. Chapter 3 deals with the research methodology which covers
the research questions, the participants, the data collection method, and the data collection
procedure as well as the data analysis, findings and some discussion of findings. Chapter 4
offers some possible suggestions to improve the current situation of teaching and learning
English for Computer Science at VTTTU.
The last part- Conclusion - summarizes the main issues of the study, points out the
limitations and makes some suggestions for further research.
PART B: DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
This chapter involves the theoretical background of the study which would be a
review of issues relevant to the thesis topic. The review includes an overview on the nature
of reading, in which the definitions of reading and reading comprehension as well as
classification of reading according to the purpose of reading are discussed. Moreover, this
chapter also discusses the definition of ESP, reading skills in ESP, factors in teaching and
learning ESP reading, and ESP reading difficulties for foreign language learners.
1.1. The nature of reading
1.1.1. Definitions of reading and reading comprehension
So far, there are numerous definitions of reading by many perspectives – linguists,
psychologists, educators and second language researchers. Each author defines in a
different way as seen from his own point of view.
According to Goodman (1971:135), reading is “a psycholinguistics process by which
the reader, a language user, reconstructs, as best as he can, a message which has been
encoded by a writer as a graphic display”. This act of reconstruction is viewed as “a
cyclical process of sampling, predicting, testing, and confirming”.
Harmer (1989:153) considers reading as a mechanical process that “eyes receive the
message and the brain then has to work out the significance of the message”. Harmer
focuses on not only two actions dominated by the eyes and the brain but also the speed of
the process: “a reading text moves at a speed of the reader”, which means it is the reader
who decides how fast he wants to read the text.
Sharing the same opinion, Smith (1985:102) defined: “reading is understanding the
author‟s thought”. It means that the readers “read the author’s mind not the author’s
words”.
To sum up, it is obvious that attempts to define reading have been various but no
definitions can reveal all the features and ideas of what reading is. However, the definitions
all focus on the nature of reading that is the interaction between readers and authors.
PART C: CONCLUSION
I. Conclusions of the study
No one can deny the importance of reading English for Computer Science for IT
students. It is obvious that both teachers and students often encounter difficulties when
teaching and learning English for CS. The aims of this study is to provide an analysis of
factors affecting reading comprehension of English for Computer Science perceived by the
second year students at VTTTU and present some useful techniques for improving the
quality of teaching and learning to read English for CS.
In order to find out the problems in teaching and learning English for CS, a survey
was carried out with the participation of 100 second- year students of IT Department at
VTTTU to examine their attitudes towards reading English for CS, the current reading
materials, their reading difficulties, the teachers‟ and students‟ activities in a reading lesson
and the learners‟ needs in terms of reading materials and methodology.
From the results of the study, it can be concluded that the teaching and learning
English for CS is still far from satisfactory. Although majority of the students are aware of
the importance of reading English for Computer Science, many of them had a negative
attitude towards reading it, which made their ESP reading more difficult. Besides, the
students are not equipped with necessary reading skills and strategies to become successful
readers. Moreover, the present course book are claimed to contain many difficult
terminologies and not very interesting. Additionally, inefficient teaching methods,
classroom techniques and teachers‟ poor specialized CS knowledge are other problems.
Based on the results of the study, the researcher has presented some suggestions for
both teaching and learning English for CS. These include the way to make English reading
more interesting and useful, to train students to become efficient readers, to increase
students‟ reading interest and motivation, to encourage students to develop extensive
reading habit, to develop the reading materials, and to improve teachers‟ professional
knowledge about CS and teaching methodology
It is hoped that the study will make a significant contribution to better the current
situation of teaching and learning English for CS at Vinh Technical Teachers‟ Training
University. It is also hoped that the study will be worth reading for those who are
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Nhà xuất bản: University of Languages and International Studies
Ngày: 2010
Chủ đề: Đọc hiểu
Tiếng Anh chuyên ngành
Phương pháp dạy học
Miêu tả: 40 p. + CD-ROM
M.A Thesis English teaching methodology -- University of Languages and International Studies. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 2010
Declaration ………………………………………………………………………………… i
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………… ii
Abstract………………………………………………………………………………… …iii
List of abbreviations……………………………………………………………………… iv
List of figures and tables …………………………………………………………………..v
Table of contents ………………………………………………………………………….vi
Part A: Introduction ……………………………………………………………………..1
1. Rationale ………………………………………………………………………… ...1
2. Aims of the study ………………………………………………………………….2
3. Methods of the study……………………………………………………………… 2
4. Scope of the study ………………………………………………………………... 2
5. Organization of the thesis ………………………………………………………… 2
Part B: Development ……………………………………………………………………. 4
Chapter 1: Theoretical background …………………………………………………….4
1.1. The nature of reading ……………………………………………………………. 4
1.1.1. Definitions of reading and reading comprehension……………………… 4
1.1.2. Classification of reading according to purpose of reading ………………. 5
1.1.3. Reading in General English and in ESP …………………………………. 6
1.2. ESP reading ……………………………………………………………………… 7
1.2.1. Definitions of ESP ……………………………………………………….. 7
1.2.2. Reading skills in ESP ……………………………………………………..8
1.2.3. Factors in teaching and learning ESP reading …………………………… 8
1.2.3.1. ESP teachers and their roles ………………………………………... 8
1.2.3.2. ESP students and their roles ………………………………………... 9
1.2.3.3. ESP materials and their roles ……………………………………… 10
1.3. ESP reading difficulties for foreign language learners …………………………10
1.3.1. Reading skills problems …………………………………………………11
1.3.2. Language problems …………………………………………………….. 11
1.4. Summary ……………………………………………………………………… .. 12
Chapter 2: Investigation into the current situation of teaching and learning English
for Computer Science at Vinh Technical Teachers’ training University ( VTTTU )
2.1. Introduction of the VTTTU ……………………………………………………. 13
2.2. The teachers and their teaching methods ………………………………………. 13
2.3. The students and their background …………………………………………….. 14
2.4. The teaching and learning English at VTTTU …………………………………. 14
2.5. The present ESP syllabus and materials …………………………………………15
Chapter 3: The study ………………………………………………………………….. 16
3.1. Research questions ………………………………………………………………16
3.2. Participants ………………………………………………………………………16
3.3. The data collection method ……………………………………………………...16
3.4. The data collection procedure ………………………………………………….. 17
3.5. Data analysis …………………………………………………………………… 17
3.5.1. Factors affecting reading English for Computer Science at VTTTU ………18
3.5.1.1. The participants’ background …………………………………………18
3.5.1.2. Students’ attitudes towards ESP reading ……………………………...19
3.5.1.3. The reading materials ………………………………………………. . 21
3.5.1.4. The teachers and teaching methods …………………………………. 23
3.5.2. The learners’ expectation in terms of ESP materials ……………………… 25
3.5.3. The learners’ expectation in terms of teaching methodology ………………26
3.6. Summary ……………………………………………………………………… .. 28
Chapter 4: Recommendations to improve the quality of the teaching and learning to
read English for CS at VTTTU …………………………………………………………29
4.1. Improving teachers’ classroom techniques …………………………………….. 29
4.1.1. Increasing students’ reading interest and motivation …………………… 29
4.1.2. Applying different approaches to teach vocabulary ……………………… 29
4.2. Training students to become efficient readers ………………………………….. 30
4.2.1. Training students with different reading strategies ………………………..30
4.2.2. Encouraging students to develop extensive reading habits ………………..32
4.2.3. Giving homework and checking the previous lessons frequently …………32
4.3. Improving teachers’ background knowledge about CS and teaching methodology
4.3.1. Improving teachers’ background knowledge about CS ……………………33
4.3.2. Improving teachers’ teaching methodology ……………………………… 33
4.4. Developing E CS reading materials ……………………………………………. 34
4.4.1. Adapting and improving reading exercises ………………………………...34
4.4.2. Choosing supplementary reading materials ………………………………. 35
4.5. Summary ……………………………………………………………………… .. 35
Part C: Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………..36
1. Conclusions of the study …………………………………………………………..36
2. Limitations of the study and Suggestions for Further study ……………………... 37
References ………………………………………………………………………………. 38
Appendices ………………………………………………………………………………..I
PART A: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale
English learning has been popular in Vietnam over the last few decades. Especially,
learning English has become a burgeoning need when Vietnam fosters its international
relations. Everyday an increasing number of people learn and use English for different
purposes.
In teaching and learning English as a foreign language in Vietnam, English for
Specific Purposes (ESP) has recently received a great deal of attention. It has been
introduced in the training curriculum at almost every university in Vietnam as recognition
of the increasing importance of the language as a tool to Giúp students access information
and technological advancements of the world. One of the main objectives of the ESP
program is to develop the students‟ skills in accessing, analyzing, and evaluating critically
the information available for their career purposes. Therefore, being able to read in a
foreign language, especially in English is often important to academic studies, professional
success and personal development. It is obvious that reading is given the most important
account for the students of Information Technology. That is because reading is not only the
important means to get knowledge but also means of further study. By means of English,
the learners can take it professionally in their future work as well as reading their
specialized materials. It is completely true for the students of IT.
At VTTTU, after finishing three semesters of GE, the students of IT department
begin to take 60 ESP periods of CS.
Being an ESP teacher of CS, the researcher has always been aware of the importance
of developing the reading skills for IT students. If the students read well, they are able to
handle subjects related written materials in English and to work with modern technological
equipments. But in fact, despite of the effort of the teachers and students, the researcher
finds her students‟ reading skills disappointed, which do not meet the requirements of the
college and they have a lot of difficulties in reading English for CS.
For all the above reasons, the researcher would like to find out the factors affecting
reading comprehension of English for CS of the second year students at VTTTU. It is
hoped that the study will make some suggestions for teachers and students to improve the
quality of teaching and learning English for CS at VTTTU.
2. Aims of the study
The study aims to examine the factors affecting reading comprehension of English
for Computer Science of the second year students at VTTTU. To be more specific, the
objectives of the study are:
- To examine the students‟ attitudes towards ESP reading.
- To investigate the current situation of teaching and learning English for CS at
VTTTU in order to find out the factors affecting reading comprehension of English for CS
of the second year students at VTTTU.
- To investigate the learners‟ needs in terms of reading materials and methodology.
- To give some recommendations to improve the quality of teaching and learning
English for CS at VTTTU.
It is hoped that the findings from this study will be of some benefits to teachers and
students at VTTTU.
3. Method of the study
In order to achieve the aims mentioned above, the methodologies adopted for this
study are a survey questionnaire with 100 students which is used as the main method to
collect the needed data from the learners and informal interviews and discussions with the
teachers as well as the researcher‟s observation during the course.
4. Scope of the study
The study mainly focuses on the investigation of factors most affecting reading
comprehension of English for Computer Science of the second year students at VTTTU,
and then suggests some techniques to Giúp them improve their ESP reading.
5. Organization of the thesis
This minor thesis consists of three parts: Introduction, Development and Conclusion.
The first part concludes the rationale for the study, the aims, the methods, and the scope of
the study as well as the organization of the thesis.
The second part consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the theoretical
background to the nature of reading and reading comprehension and reading in ESP
teaching and learning. Chapter 2 investigates the current situation of teaching and learning
English for CS at VTTTU. Chapter 3 deals with the research methodology which covers
the research questions, the participants, the data collection method, and the data collection
procedure as well as the data analysis, findings and some discussion of findings. Chapter 4
offers some possible suggestions to improve the current situation of teaching and learning
English for Computer Science at VTTTU.
The last part- Conclusion - summarizes the main issues of the study, points out the
limitations and makes some suggestions for further research.
PART B: DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
This chapter involves the theoretical background of the study which would be a
review of issues relevant to the thesis topic. The review includes an overview on the nature
of reading, in which the definitions of reading and reading comprehension as well as
classification of reading according to the purpose of reading are discussed. Moreover, this
chapter also discusses the definition of ESP, reading skills in ESP, factors in teaching and
learning ESP reading, and ESP reading difficulties for foreign language learners.
1.1. The nature of reading
1.1.1. Definitions of reading and reading comprehension
So far, there are numerous definitions of reading by many perspectives – linguists,
psychologists, educators and second language researchers. Each author defines in a
different way as seen from his own point of view.
According to Goodman (1971:135), reading is “a psycholinguistics process by which
the reader, a language user, reconstructs, as best as he can, a message which has been
encoded by a writer as a graphic display”. This act of reconstruction is viewed as “a
cyclical process of sampling, predicting, testing, and confirming”.
Harmer (1989:153) considers reading as a mechanical process that “eyes receive the
message and the brain then has to work out the significance of the message”. Harmer
focuses on not only two actions dominated by the eyes and the brain but also the speed of
the process: “a reading text moves at a speed of the reader”, which means it is the reader
who decides how fast he wants to read the text.
Sharing the same opinion, Smith (1985:102) defined: “reading is understanding the
author‟s thought”. It means that the readers “read the author’s mind not the author’s
words”.
To sum up, it is obvious that attempts to define reading have been various but no
definitions can reveal all the features and ideas of what reading is. However, the definitions
all focus on the nature of reading that is the interaction between readers and authors.
PART C: CONCLUSION
I. Conclusions of the study
No one can deny the importance of reading English for Computer Science for IT
students. It is obvious that both teachers and students often encounter difficulties when
teaching and learning English for CS. The aims of this study is to provide an analysis of
factors affecting reading comprehension of English for Computer Science perceived by the
second year students at VTTTU and present some useful techniques for improving the
quality of teaching and learning to read English for CS.
In order to find out the problems in teaching and learning English for CS, a survey
was carried out with the participation of 100 second- year students of IT Department at
VTTTU to examine their attitudes towards reading English for CS, the current reading
materials, their reading difficulties, the teachers‟ and students‟ activities in a reading lesson
and the learners‟ needs in terms of reading materials and methodology.
From the results of the study, it can be concluded that the teaching and learning
English for CS is still far from satisfactory. Although majority of the students are aware of
the importance of reading English for Computer Science, many of them had a negative
attitude towards reading it, which made their ESP reading more difficult. Besides, the
students are not equipped with necessary reading skills and strategies to become successful
readers. Moreover, the present course book are claimed to contain many difficult
terminologies and not very interesting. Additionally, inefficient teaching methods,
classroom techniques and teachers‟ poor specialized CS knowledge are other problems.
Based on the results of the study, the researcher has presented some suggestions for
both teaching and learning English for CS. These include the way to make English reading
more interesting and useful, to train students to become efficient readers, to increase
students‟ reading interest and motivation, to encourage students to develop extensive
reading habit, to develop the reading materials, and to improve teachers‟ professional
knowledge about CS and teaching methodology
It is hoped that the study will make a significant contribution to better the current
situation of teaching and learning English for CS at Vinh Technical Teachers‟ Training
University. It is also hoped that the study will be worth reading for those who are
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