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Due to the importance of pronunciation in language learning and the poor pronunciation of
first- year English majors at Hong Duc university, I decided to introduce some changes into my
speaking ...
speaking and pronunciation course for first- year English majors with the hope to improve their
pronunciation. That was the reason why I conducted this...
... (the second language).
There are two kinds of language transfers: negative and positive
transfer. Negative transfer is the use of a native- language pattern or rule
which leads to an error or ... different circumstances. For all those reasons, the
Vietnamese learners translated from their MT rather than writing directly
in English. Therefore, this lead to the first language tran...
... the first year English majors
at HaiPhong Private University to have more specific and clear understanding
of English writing, and especially punctuations, help to find out their
punctuation ... study related to
English writing, grammar, and punctuations.
Quantitive and qualitive method through a survey among first
year English majors at HPU to explore their...
... and Devito, 1994); their contents and their implementation. For instance, Patricia L.
Rieman and Jeanne Okrasinski (2000) state that " a portfolio is an assessment tool that
allows creator ... things can cause problems. On the
other hand, difficulties that teachers anticipate can produce no trouble at all. Teachers must
be prepared to interrupt their planned sequence to cover poi...
... well in English means learning to think in English, however, many
students are used to translating as they read and have great difficulty thinking in another
language. If the students want to read ... the researcher to collect the data needed in quantitative
form. Besides, the researcher finds it quite easy to summarize, analyze, and report the
collected data because all info...
... questionnaire is conducted to investigate issues relating to the pronunciation
of the first year students at the English Department, College of Foreign Languages,
Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
Please ... looked at its meaning only
b. looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then pronounced it in mind
c. looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then pronounced...
... -10: Students’ attitude towards pronunciation and their problems with English
pronunciation.
The last two questions were asked to find out students’ attitude towards English
pronunciation, as well ... to go from one step to another. Eileen Ferrance (2000)
suggested an action research cycle as follows:
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Figure 1: Action research cycle
According to her cycle, the...