A survey on the Perception of students at Thanh Liem a high school of the benefits of Fre-listening activities in learning listening skills = Nghiên cứu khảo sá

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A survey on the Perception of students at Thanh Liem a high school of the benefits of Fre-listening activities in learning listening skills = Nghiên cứu khảo sá

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES  VŨ THỊ THẢO A SURVEY ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS AT THANH LIEM A HIGH SCHOOL OF THE BENEFITS OF PRE-LISTENING ACTIVITIES IN LEARNING LISTENING SKILLS (Nghiên cứu khảo sát nhận thức học sinh Trường THPT Thanh Liêm A lợi ích hoạt động tiền nghe hiểu việc học kĩ nghe) M.A MINOR THESIS FIELD : ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE : 60.14.0111 HANOI – 2013 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES  VŨ THỊ THẢO A SURVEY ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS AT THANH LIEM A HIGH SCHOOL OF THE BENEFITS OF PRE-LISTENING ACTIVITIES IN LEARNING LISTENING SKILLS (Nghiên cứu khảo sát nhận thức học sinh Trường THPT Thanh Liêm A lợi ích hoạt động tiền nghe hiểu việc học kĩ nghe) M.A MINOR THESIS FIELD : ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE : 60.14.0111 SUPERVISOR : Dr TRẦN THỊ THU HIỀN HANOI – 2013 Statement of authorship I certify that the minor thesis entitled “A survey on the perceptions of students at Thanh Liem A high school of the benefits of pre-listening activities in learning listening skills” is the result of my own work It is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Education This minor thesis or any part of the same has not been submitted for any other universities or institutions i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT To complete this thesis, I have benefited a great deal of useful and practical support from a variety of people First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Dr Tran Thi Thu Hien, my respected supervisor, for her close and experienced guidance, encouragement and invaluable detailed critical feedback in the process of completing my thesis I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the M.A lecturers who have been teaching K20 M.A course in Vietnam National University - University of Languages and International Studies and the post-graduate staff for their contributions to the success of the course My sincere thanks are also for all teachers of English at Thanh Liem A high school for their help in answering the interview questions, for their constructive suggestions to this research, and for their willingness to share their relevant problems with me I wish to convey my thanks to the students of classes 10A1, 11A6 and 12A7 I have visited in order to gather information for survey questionnaire and observed Without their help, this study would not have been successful Finally, I am grateful to my family for their love, care, tolerance and encouragement ii ABSTRACT This research focuses on the perceptions of students at Thanh Liem A High School of the benefits of pre-listening activities in learning listening skills With a desire to study and analyze the benefits of pre-listening activities to improve listening skill and introduce them to the teachers at Thanh liem A high school, the author has found out related researches as the theory background of the thesis From that, the researcher has enough reasoning base to support and protect the thesis The data are collected from survey questionnaires for 100 students, observation of three classes and interview with six teachers The results show students’ preferences and comments on the pre-listening activities in three textbooks From major findings of the study, the author mentions recommendations for implementing pre-listening activities, significance of the proposed research supporting for teaching in this school, pedagogical implications from the findings, limitations of the study and suggestions for further research iii iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Statement of authorship i Acknowledgement ii Abstract iii Table of contents iv List of abbreviation vii List of tables and charts viii PART A: INTRODUCTION Rationale Aims of the study Research questions Scope of the study Methodology Significance of the study Structure of the study PART B: DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1 Theory of listening v 1 Definition of listening and listening comprehension 1 1.1 Definition of listening 1 Definition of listening comprehension 1 The process of teaching and learning listening lesson 1 Factors make listening difficult Pre-listening activities Definition of pre-listening 2 Pre-listening activities Benefits of pre-listening activities in learning listening skills Summary 10 Chapter 2: CURRENT SITUATION OF TEACHING AND 13 LEARNING ENGLISH AT THANHLIEM A HIGH SCHOOL 14 2.1 The institution 2.2 The teachers 2.3 The students 2.4 The listening materials 2.5 The teaching and learning English at TLAHS 2.6 Summary Chapter 3: RESEARCH METHOD The participants 15 15 15 16 17 17 18 vi Instruments of collecting data 19 3 Data collection procedure 19 3.4 Summary 19 Chapter 4: FINDINGS, DISCUSSION AND 20 RECOMMENDATIONS 21 4.1 Discussion of the results collected by means of the survey questionnaire 4.1.1 Students’ attitude towards listening skill 22 4.1.2 Students’ perceptions of pre-listening activities 4.1.2.1 Students’ opinion about the necessity of using prelistening activities 4.1.2.2 Students’ opinion about the teacher’s frequency of 22 22 23 using pre-listening activities 4.1.2.3 Students’ preference for teacher’s applying pre- 23 listening activities 4.1.2.4 Students’ benefits from pre-listening activities 25 4.1.2.5 Students’ point of views about pre-listening activities in the textbooks 4.1.2.6 Students’ suggestions for the changes of pre-listening activities in the textbooks 27 30 4.2 Discussion of the results collected by means of the classroom observation 31 vii 4.3 Discussion of the results collected by means of the interview 4.3.1 Teachers’ attitude towards listening skill 32 4.3.2 Teachers’ opinion on pre-listening activities in the textbooks they are teaching 4.3.3 Teachers’ frequency of teaching pre-listening 4.3.4 Teachers’ opinion on benefits of pre-listening activities in teaching and learning listening skill 33 35 35 4.4 Recommendations 4.4.1 Encouraging students to learn listening skill from the beginning stage of listening 4.4.2 Improving teachers’ teaching method in pre-listening stage 4.4.3 Improving the pre-listening activities in the text books 4.5 Summary PART C: CONCLUSION Summary of the study Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study 36 36 37 38 38 38 39 40 43 43 References Appendices 44 45 viii Appendix I Appendix I Appendix V Appendix X XI List of abbreviation IT: Information Technology NCLRC: the National Capital Language Resource Center SLA: Second Language Acquisition TLAHS: Thanh Liem A High School VNU: Vietnam National University ... focuses on the perceptions of students at Thanh Liem A High School of the benefits of pre -listening activities in learning listening skills With a desire to study and analyze the benefits of pre -listening. .. objectives of this study are: - carrying out an investigation on students? ?? perceptions of applying those benefits to teaching and learning listening skills in grade 10, 11 and 12 at Thanh Liem A High school, ... Chapter 2: CURRENT SITUATION OF TEACHING AND 13 LEARNING ENGLISH AT THANHLIEM A HIGH SCHOOL 14 2.1 The institution 2.2 The teachers 2.3 The students 2.4 The listening materials 2.5 The teaching

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