(SKKN 2022) help students become familiar with the types of reading comprehension exercises through designing questions for reading part in english textbook for 12th grade

I INTRODUCTIONN 1.1 Reasons for choosing the topic History and humanity have proved that the goal of education is always associated with the development goal of society Implementing the 29th Resolution-NQ/TW on November 4th, 2013, of the 8th Central Conference - the 11th term on fundamental and comprehensive renovations of education and training, the Ministry of Education and Training increasingly focuses on improving the quality of subjects, including English, to meet the needs of today's globalization Thanh Hoa province has also been carrying out the project named "Enhancing the quality of teaching and learning English" at all levels of education to accomplish the goal In the 2020-2021 school year, the Department of Education and Training of Thanh Hoa has also actively instructed in teaching and learning for 12th grade students in order to enhance the average score of the students in schools in all over the province including Mai Anh Tuan High School However, the average score of the students in recently years is still low I think there are many reasons such as: Teachers are still confused about how to teach to get the best scores, the combination of methods in teaching skills is not reasonable Especially in the reading part of the 12th grade English textbooks, the questions are not suitable for the type of reading comprehension passages in the exam questions Stemming from the above issues, I have chosen the topic: “Help students become familiar with the types of reading comprehension exercises through designing questions for Reading part in English textbook for 12th grade.” 1.2 The purpose of the research When I choose this topic to study, I give some purposes: - Help students practice different kinds of thinking such as dialectical thinking, logical thinking, analytical thinking, synthetic thinking - Help students to understand the information of the reading text systematically so that they are capable of applying it to their life; form important reading skills such as reading, reading to get detailed information, reading to find the main idea of the text, - Help students become familiar with the forms of reading comprehension exercises in the exams, especially the high school graduation exams and not have the habit of basing on reference books to find out answers - Promote the positive, proactive and creative nature of learners, make reading lessons become more interesting, attractive, help students feel more confident when taking the exams 1.3 The Objectives of the research The topic focuses on designing questions for the reading passages in the 12th grade English textbook In Unit 1,3,8,9 I designed the form: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the answer to each of the question In Unit 2,5,6 I designed the form: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each the numbered blanks 1.4 The methodology of the research A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods will be used for this research The reason for this combination of the two methods is that because I will identify the problems based on data collected in questionnaires However, I will also have class observations with 12M, 12N, 12E students of Mai Anh Tuan high School in Nga Sơn Town, Thanh Hoa province II CONTENT 2.1 Theoretical basis One of the important contents of the Resolution of the 8th Conference is the fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education Particularly, the innovation of teaching and learning methods is key and meaningful to the development of the country's education Interest and reading motivation are the first factors that help students improve their reading comprehension skills The teacher must guide and control teacher and learning activities, use a variety of strategies and methods to help learners develop skills and knowledge and thinking That designing questions for the reading passages in the 12th grade English textbook to help students familiarize with the forms of reading comprehension exercises is one of the effective ways to contribute to that goal 2.2 Real situation before applying the research Mai Anh Tuan High School is one of three high schools in Nga Son district located in the coastal plain in the North of Thanh Hoa province The living condition of the students in the classes I took charge of is poor, their parents haven’t been interested in their leaning English yet The students’ scores of English of the entrance exams for the 10th grade are relatively low In the high school graduation exams, the average score of the students has been much lower than that of the province and of the whole country In 2019, the average score is 3.71 points; in 2020 3.78 points Statistics of the survey at the beginning of the school year 2020-2021 of the classes I taught reveal that the scores under average account for over 80 % Therefore, I had considerable difficulty in teaching those students Below is a transcript of the students’ ability survey before applying the topic Class Total 0≤đ