Luận án thạc sĩ: Sử dụng video clips nâng cao kỹ năng nghe tiếng Anh cho sinh viên năm nhất chuyên ngành không tiếng Anh - Trần Thị Thanh Trâm

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES GRADUATE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Trần Thị Thanh Trâm USING VIDEO CLIPS TO ENHANCE FIRST YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN PRE-LISTENING STAGE MA THESIS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE HO CHI MINH CITY, 2020 luan an VIETNAM ACADEMY OF OCIAL SCIENCES GRADUATE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Trần Thị Thanh Trâm USING VIDEO CLIPS TO ENHANCE FIRST YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN PRE-LISTENING STAGE Field: English Language Code: 8220201 Supervisor: Assoc. Phạm Hữu Đức HO CHI MINH CITY, 2020 luan an DECLARATION BY AUTHOR I declare that this “Using Video Clips To Enhance First Year Non-English Major Students’ Participation In Pre-Listening Stage” is created by my own findings and I am the sole author of this thesis. To the best of my knowledge, with the exception of the indication of reference, this is carried out without using any other author’s work and is submitted after a carefully checking progress in order to fulfill the requirements of the M. Author’s signature Trần Thị Thanh Trâm Approved by SUPERVISOR Assoc.

Phạm Hữu Đức Date: ……………………………… i luan an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to all those who have encouraged and supported me to complete this thesis. First of all, I am deeply grateful to my supervisor, Assoc. Phạm Hữu Đức for his boundlessly enthusiastic support. I really learnt a lot from his serious and thorough attitude towards working and his great mind.

I would like to thank all lecturers at Foreign Languages Department, Graduate Academy Of Social Sciences for their valuable teaching and tremendous assistance that have enlightened my study path. They also provided me with necessary references for the study. I also send my special thanks to all faculty and staffs of Dong Nai Technology University. In addition, I also would like to give my special thanks to the students at Dong Nai Technology University who have provided the indispensable with me.

I am grateful to my family whose support has been especially important to the success of my educational endeavors; especially my husband, who also encourages and shares the hardship with me. Finally, warm appreciation is reserved for my classmates at the Master Course at Foreign Languages Department, Graduate Academy Of Social Sciences for their friendliness, generous assistance which contributed significantly to the completion of the study. These people deserve all the credit. I highly appreciate all their support and contribution.

ii luan an ABSTRACT This study is created and completed on the purpose of researching the way of using Video clips in the pre-listening stage as an effective teaching method, especially in the scope of teaching English at universities. The aim of this is to enhance the English-listening of first year non - English major students of the university. Furthermore, applying video clips is becoming more and more popular in teaching and guiding English listening skill to the students, therefore, this focuses on analyzing the necessity as well as the way of using this helpful method in universities, particularly Dong Nai Technology University. According to the results of data analysis of the survey questionnaire and interview which was conducted by 60 first year non - English major students and 8 English teachers at Dong Nai Technology University I found that using video clips in the pre-listening motivates students to learn easily listening better.

Besides, the background information is also activated in all stages of listening process. The benefits, positive effects, as well as challenges of applying this teaching method are analyzed in this. Furthermore, some suggestions for overcoming these difficulties are also mentioned. iii luan an LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS L1: first language L2: second language EFL: English as a foreign language ELT: English language teaching CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning DNTU: Dong Nai Technology University iv luan an TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION BY AUTHOR.

iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS. v LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS. viii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.

Aims of the Study. Scope of the Study. Significance of the Study. Structure of the Study.

3 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW. Definition of listening skill.2 Importance of listening skill .4 Sub- skills in listening. Principles for teaching listening. Recall the story.

Detail pre-listening task. Definition of pre-listening task. Pre-Listening types. The role of pre-listening task.

Use of technology in language teaching. Use of Visual aids in the direct Method. Using video as audio-visual aids. Use of video clips in teaching listening.

Planning for teaching listening. Overview of the survey. Instruments of Collecting Data. Data collection instruments.

Class room observations. Data collection procedures. An introduction to the current Textbook Learning to Listen 1. 36 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS.

Results and analysis from questionnaires. Questionnaires for students. Questionnaires for teachers. Results and analysis from classroom observation.

Results and analysis from interviews. Factors making students unwilling to listening English in class. Difficulties teachers have encountered in teaching listening. Video clips used by teachers.

57 vi luan an 4. Suggestions for Further Studies. XII vii luan an LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS List of tables Table 4.1: Summary of the results of questions 1 to 4 Table 4.2: Students’ attitudes towards learning English listening skill Table 4.3: The objective factors affecting to learning listening skill Table 4.4: Students’ developing listening skill Table 4.5: Feeling when students listen to the tape after doing pre-listening activities.6: Students’ activities enjoy listening lesson Table 4.7: Students’ problems often face in listening Table 4.8: Students’ doing activities before listening Table 4.9: Using video clips technique in the pre-listening activities in listening process.10: Frequency task in pre-listening Table 4.11: Using visual aids can develop students’ listening skill Table 4.12: Thinking of video clips help developing listening skill Table 4.13: Result of class observations (Note: A: Agree; NA: not agree) List of charts Chart 4.1: Students’ developing listening skill Chart 4.2: Students’ thinking about the lessons using video clips in pre- listening.3: Important of video clips in the pre-listening activities in listening process viii luan an CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Facing the trend of integration and globalization, English is considered the most popular language in the world when there are nearly 60 countries using English as the main language, besides their mother tongue and nearly 100 countries use English as a second language.

Therefore, this foreign language plays a very important role in the current era of globalization integration. Human relationships as well as cooperation and investment in many fields from business, commerce, transportation, technology, media, tourism. to opportunities in learning and working, the expansion of relationships for cooperation is not only confined to Vietnam but also to other countries in the world. English is one of the effective tools, playing a big role in helping foreigners understand Vietnamese in the period of international integration.

Today, Vietnam integrates deeper and deeper into the world, the need for English communication is essential for everyone, thus English learning and teaching gains more and more attention. Listening skill is important among the four skills in English for language acquisition. The review of early theories and research revealed that listening instruction and listening strategy training has received partial attention. The English subject was conducted in 45 periods in a course.

Students must study in 3 courses; they have to develop four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. If you do not understand when you listen, you cannot speak. So being a teacher of English, I realize that pre - listening is very important. It helps students to understand and analyze easily general situations with video clips.

At Dong Nai Technology University, although teachers have used several methods in pre-listening stage, students still find it difficult to listen during class time. The things mentioned above are the reason why “using video clips to enhance the first year non-English majored students’ participation in pre - listening stage” is chosen. By doing this, I believe that it can help teachers, especially 1 luan an teachers working with first year non-English majored students of universities a method of enhancing their English listening. Aims of the Study Aim: To explore the non-majored English students’ attitude toward the use of video clips in pre-listening stage; To enhance the listening comprehension by using video clips.

In order to reach the aim, the study is expected to meet the following objectives: To find out the difficult situation of students when learning listening skills and the solution for applying video clips in the pre-listening stage to improve listening skills for non - English major students at DNTU; To investigate the current situation of applying video clips in pre listening skills for non-English major students at DNTU. Research Questions To achieve the aims which are mentioned above, the following research questions (RQ) is raised for study: Question 1: What is the first year non-English major students’ attitude toward video clips in pre-listening stage? Question 2: In what way do video clips improve first year non-English major students' listening skill at Dong Nai Technology University? 1. Scope of the Study In spite of the fact that there are many different techniques to improve the students’ listening skill but it is impossible to cover all of them in this thesis. Therefore, this study only focuses on finding out the difficult situation of students when learning listening skills and the solution for applying video clips in the pre- listening stage to improve listening skills for non - English major students at DNTU.

Due to time constraints, the study cannot cover all the topics to stimulate students’ listening ability in class. Therefore, it mainly focuses on some daily topics of Learning To Listen 1 Book such as free time, at home and let’s eat which 2 luan an may close to students. The data of the research was collected via questionnaires, interview and class observations. Significance of the Study This study is expected to be helpful for teachers and students at DNTU.

The teachers may make their listening lessons effectively. Beside the advantages of this method could help students to study by themselves. Hopefully, the research will make a small contribution to the application of video clips in improving non – English major students’ ability in learning listening at DNTU in particular. Research Methods With the aim to explore the non-majored English students’ attitude toward the use of video clips in pre-listening stage and enhance the listening comprehension by using video clips, we have to study some theoretical methodologies; and outstandingly, to achieve the objectives, a survey research will be conducted.

The data will be collected via questionnaires, interview and class observation. The first step which is used to collect the data is questionnaires. There were 60 the first year non – majored English students at DNTU participated in the questionnaire. Besides, there are eight English teachers at DNTU taken part in an interview to get information about learning English listening and students' use video clips to improve listening skill.

Listing, analyzing and synthesizing the data collected, giving some application and suggestions to teachers and learners about teaching and learning listening. After that, with a view to recognizing the way of applying and the effect, as well as difficulties of this method in classes, the author observed a certain amount of lessons in classes. Structure of the Study The thesis consists of 5 chapters: Chapter 1: Introduction It presents the rationale, the aim, the scope, the methods, the significance, the research questions, and the organization. 3 luan an Chapter 2: Literature review This chapter presents theoretical background of the study including theory related to language learning listening.

Especially, a review of the theory related pre-listening. Chapter 3: Methodology This part presents the method employed to collect data and provides the description of the subjects of the study, the research instrument and data collection procedures.