THE EFFECT OF PREDICTION STRATEGY ON IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF NON-ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS AT HO CHI MINH UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY (HUI

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THE EFFECT OF PREDICTION STRATEGY ON IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF NON-ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS AT HO CHI MINH UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY (HUI

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ********************* LÊ THỊ HOA THE EFFECT OF PREDICTION STRATEGY ON IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF NON-ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS AT HO CHI MINH UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY (HUI) Ảnh hưởng của chiến lược phán đoán đến việc phát triển kĩ năng đọc hiểu của sinh viên không chuyên ngữ tại trường Đại học Công Nghiệp TPHCM M.A MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60140111 Hanoi, 2014 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES ********************* LÊ THỊ HOA THE EFFECT OF PREDICTION STRATEGY ON IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF NON-ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS AT HO CHI MINH UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY (HUI) Ảnh hưởng của chiến lược phán đoán đến việc phát triển kĩ năng đọc hiểu của sinh viên không chuyên ngữ tại trường Đại học Công Nghiệp TPHCM. M.A MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60140111 SUPERVISOR: PHẠM HỮU ĐỨC, PhD. Hanoi, 2014 DECLARATION OF AUTHORSHIP I, LÊ THỊ HOA, declare that this graduation thesis is original and has not been submitted for assessment elsewhere. I declare that this assignment is my own work and does not involve plagiarism or collusion. Date: … / … / 2014 Signature LÊ THỊ HOA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my thanks to many people who have assisted my research work. Firstly, my great appreciations go to the contribution of my supervisor Pham Huu Duc, Ph.D who spent time and energy helping me complete my thesis. I am grateful to his valuable guidance and great insight into my thesis writing. His guidance was indispensable to the design and completion of the study. I am also grateful to him for his comments, correction and for her kindly encouragement and enthusiasm during the development of this study. Secondly, my special words are also extended to my students. They were very enthusiastic when studying with my instruction; they encouragedme in being confident to accomplish my practice completely. Their support is greatly appreciated. Next, I would like to thank my family for supporting me, taking care of me and encouraging me during the time I implemented the thesis. Their love and expectation for me is a great encouragement to complete the thesis. Finally, I also want to give acknowledgement to my friends who spent their time to help me during the process, gave me insightful comments for my thesis, and encouraged me when I was demotivated during this hard and stressful time. ABSTRACT This study aims to emphasize the effect of prediction strategy in reading comprehension with the application of some techniques for pre-reading and while- reading activities to check the effect of prediction strategy after the lessons. The participants were 52 English non-majored students who participated in the complete learning course. This was indicated by students’ responses during the teaching and learning process. It was also strengthened by the data from the questionnaires after Cycle 2 in which the students pointed out that they enjoyed and interested in doing the reading activities using the prediction activities. The important thing for teachers is that they need to consider the effective techniques used in improving prediction strategy in particular and reading skill in general in order to meet the need of the students and motivate them in learning reading comprehension skill. TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION OF AUTHORSHIP i ACKNOWLEGDEMENT ii ABSTRACT iii TABLES OF CONTENTS iv DEFINITION OF TERMS v LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES vi Part A: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale 1 2. Aims of the Study 1 3. Research questions 2 4. Scope of the study 2 5. Importance of the study 2 6. Method of the Study 3 7. Design of the Study 3 Part B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 5 1.1. Reading skill 5 1.1.1. Definitions of reading 5 1.1.2. The importance of reading 5 1.1.3. Reading comprehension 9 1.2. Prediction strategy 11 1.2.1. Definitions of prediction strategy… ……………………12 1.2.2. Importance of prediction strategy ……………………………13 CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 15 2.1. Participants and settings of the study 15 2.2. Data collection……………… 15 2.2.1. Data collection instrument……………………………………… 15 2.2.2. Data collection procedure 15 2.2.3. Data analysis procedure 17 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION……… 19 3.1. Findings ………………………………………… 19 3.1.1. Analysis from the reading tests 19 3.1.2. Response to questionnaire… 22 3.2. Discussion……………………………… 24 3.2.1. Having authentic reading purpose…………………………………….….24 3.2.2. Choosing authentic reading materials………………………… ……… 25 3.2.3. Improving background knowledge for further reading……………… 26 3.2.4. Improving vocabulary by reading as much as possible………………… 27 3.2.5. Combining prediction strategy with other strategies………… …………28. 3.3. Pedagogical Implication 29 PART C: CONCLUSION 1. Conclusion of the study………………… …… ………….………… …30 2. Limitation of the study………………………… .………….… 31 3. Suggestions for Further Research…………… …….… … ……32 REFERENCES 33 APPENDIXES I PART A: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale These days, there is no doubt that the English language is becoming something of a forerunner in the global communication. It is the language of choice in most countries of the world. It brings people together, gets out of the border of a country and brings the world closer. As an effective means of international communication, English is used as the official language in many fields of life such as economics, politics, science, technology, sports and many others. This leads to an increasing demand of learning English. In many Asian countries such as Singapore, Philippine, Malaysia or Thailand, English is used as an official language besides their mother language; and Vietnam is not an exception. ―English is now commonly used in exchange between, say, Japanese and Argentinean business people, or between Singaporeans and their Vietnam counterparts‖, noted Harmer (2007, p.13). In our country, more and more people consider mastering English skills as an important factor to improve their work, get higher position in their companies. Thus, English is playing a very significant role in bringing the world together. In the world integration, English is really an essential tool for the country development. Universities and colleges in Vietnam including Ho Chi Minh city University of Industry (HUI) have tried their best to improve their students’ English quality to meet the demand of the country development. However, learning another language is not easy at all. With four macro skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing, listening and speaking is most used in communication, even in daily life. However, reading skill is also essential for us in order to update our knowledge because we have to use reading skill in reading newspaper, reading books or documents related to our profession. With strengthened reading skill, EFL readers will make a greater progress and greater development not only in English but also in other academic fields. Therefore, ―Reading skill need to be fostered so that learners can cope with more and more sophisticated texts and tasks, and deal with them efficiently: quickly, appropriately and skillfully‖, wrote Ur (1996, p.147). 2. Aims of the research The research aims: - To investigate the effects of prediction strategy on the students’ reading ability; - To provide the teachers with some suggestions to make best use of prediction strategy in teaching and learning reading comprehension. 3. Research Question Based on the aims of the research, the author will attempt to answer the following questions: - What is the initial reading ability of the students? - Does prediction strategy affect students’ reading ability? - What can be done to improve prediction strategy? 4. Scope of the study I have taught English to non-majored students at HUI for more than one year. Most of them have difficulties in learning English macro skills. Besides listening, writing and speaking, during the process of teaching English to non-majored English students, I found out that they really have problems in reading. In other words, they do not have right strategies for learning reading. To each reading passage, they try to understand every word, stop and look up the dictionary whenever they reach the unfamiliar words. Most students start reading immediately after they receive the text without trying to look at the title to think about the text’s topic before reading or trying to use their background knowledge to facilitate their comprehension. This always takes [...]... the main indicator of the success of the employment of prediction strategy is In the first reading test in Cycle 1, the result of the test showed that the average score of the students in reading test of Cycle 1was 51.36 There was an improvement compared on the result of the score on preliminary study However, the students still could not reach the criterion of success because there were only 63% of. .. to evaluate the effect of prediction strategy on their reading comprehension skills Then, the questionnaires were administered to find out their reading strategies After the data is analyzed and discussed, some conclusion will be drawn, and some suggestion will be raised in the thesis 7 Design of the Study The thesis consists of three main parts: INTRODUCTION which provides an overview of the study,... in reading comprehension, which makes them confused and harder to understand the reading passages Therefore, the result from question 3 was not very positive In short, most of the students express their expectation to continue using this kind of strategy for the next classes They found that there was some effectiveness in their reading However,13 students got confused with the effectiveness of the strategy. .. the strategy because they had difficulty in applying what they learned in the class into practice and they found that that did not have enough time to complete the reading passage if they try to use prediction strategy Therefore, they read naturally through the passage and passed the strategy 3.2 Discussion Based on the result of the findings, it can be concluded that although the prediction strategy. .. and the last test was taken place after the next two lessons At the end of the course, a questionnaire of five questions was delivered to students to find out their reading strategy before taking the course and their opinion for the good technique in improving prediction strategy 2.2.3 Data analysis procedure In order to achieve the aims of the study mentioned above, the quantitative analysis the. .. help them understand what they are hearing or reading CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 2.1 Participants and setting of the study The study was conducted with the participation of 52 students in an English non -majored class at HUI Most of the students are freshmen and they are learning with a basic level They were going to study in 5 lessons of reading comprehension with prediction strategy 2.2 Data collection... and how to present the materials effectively From the second stage, the researcher will be applied what she prepared in the first stage to teach the students in the class The last stage is reflection In this stage, the researcher reflected the result of effectiveness of applying prediction strategy in improving reading comprehension through analyzing the questionnaire and the tests In this research, the. .. an action research was employed as this study was conducted to examine the impact of a small scale of intervention, predicting strategy instruction, on the reading comprehension of 52 students and determine effective techniques to teach these students predicting strategies to improve their reading comprehension The intervention, a predicting strategy instruction course includes three lessons on predicting... (50 students) agreed that prediction strategy with those kinds of technique made the reading activity more interesting than before and it also motivated them in learning reading comprehension 3.1.2 Responses to the questionnaire Question 1(number of 2 (number 3 (number 4 (number 5 (number choices ) of choices) of choices) of choices) of choices) 1 14 19 15 3 1 2 11 23 16 2 0 3 10 19 10 11 2 Question... obtain data on the students responses before and after the implementation of applying prediction strategy in reading comprehension After the data is analyzed and discussed, the findings will be showed, and some conclusions will be drawn and some suggestions will be raised in the thesis CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 3.1 Findings 3.1.1 Analysis from reading tests The improvement of students reading . UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY (HUI) Ảnh hưởng của chiến lược phán đoán đến việc phát triển kĩ năng đọc hiểu của sinh viên không chuyên ngữ tại trường Đại học Công Nghiệp TPHCM M.A MINOR THESIS. UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY (HUI) Ảnh hưởng của chiến lược phán đoán đến việc phát triển kĩ năng đọc hiểu của sinh viên không chuyên ngữ tại trường Đại học Công Nghiệp TPHCM. M.A MINOR THESIS

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