(Luận văn) prototype lessons on developing textual skill of first year college students of the thai nguyen system

i BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam PROTOTYPE LESSONS ON DEVELOPING TEXTUAL SKILLS OF FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS OF THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM lu an n va A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of Graduate School Batangas State University Batangas City, Philippines p ie gh tn to d oa nl w lu ll u nf va an In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Of Doctor of Philosophy Major in English oi m z at nh z m co HOANG HUONG LY June 2015 l gm @ By: an Lu n va ac th si ii BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam APPROVAL SHEET lu This dissertation entitled “PROTOTYPE LESSONS ON DEVELOPING TEXTUAL SKILLS OF FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS OF THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM” prepared and submitted by HOANG HUONG LY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy major in English has been examined and is recommended for Oral Examination an n va to MATILDA H DIMAANO, Ph.D PANEL OF EXAMINERS p ie gh tn Adviser oa nl w Approved by the committee on Oral Examination with a grade of _ d DR AMADA G BANAAG Chairman an lu DR FELIX M PANOPIO Member ll u nf va DR MARIA LUISA A VALDEZ Member oi m DR MYRNA G SULIT External Representative z at nh z Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy major in English MATILDA H DIMAANO, Ph.D Dean, Graduate Studies an Lu _ Date m co l gm @ Comprehensive Examination: PASSED n va ac th si iii BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam ABSTRACT Title : Prototype Lessons on Developing Textual Skill of First Year College Students of Thai Nguyen University System lu an n va : Hoang Huong Ly Course : Doctor of Philosophy Major : English Year : 2015 Adviser : Dr Matilda H Dimaano gh tn to Author p ie Summary w This study aimed to assess the textual skill of first year college students d oa nl of Thai Nguyen System with prototype lessons as output of the study to an lu develop students’ textual performance u nf va This study made use of the descriptive method of research using survey questionnaire and teacher-made test Respondents of the study were the 326 ll m oi first year Basic English language students from selected Universities in Thai z at nh Nguyen and 66 English teachers The students answered the teacher –made z test on textual performance relative to combining sentences, constructing @ l gm sentences, connecting ideas, using words effectively, and developing m co paragraph which served as the source of the quantitative data that were an Lu n va ac th si iv BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam analyzed statistically The students’ demographic profiles in terms of gender; parents’ educational attainment; students’ exposure to English media; place of origin; and school graduated from were included in the study Further, the hypothesis that there are no significant differences between the students' lu an textual performance in English and the teachers' assessment scores is tested va The data gathered were analyzed using the following statistics: frequency n gh tn to distribution, percentage, weighted mean, standard deviation, and independent p ie t-test w Findings of the study revealed that in the student respondents’ d oa nl demographic profiles in relation to gender, there were 55.83 percent males and an lu 44.17 percent females in the group with the males exceeding the females by u nf va 11.66 percent This means that the population under study has an almost equal gender distribution and can be considered as gender-balanced As to parents’ ll m oi educational attainment, out of 326 respondents there are 303 or 92.94 percent z at nh whose parents have tertiary education, which means that majority of the z student respondents have well-educated parents @ l gm With regards to exposure to English media more than half or 51.23 m co percent of the students had the least exposure to the English media, which an Lu means that majority of the students are not well exposed to the English media n va ac th si v BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam and are therefore foreign to it For place of origin, results showed that 188 out of 326 student respondents or 57.67 percent originated from urban areas in Vietnam which means that most of the respondents came from urban areas where they grew up and obtained their early education in areas close to cities lu an where advanced learning technologies are available Relative to school va graduated majority of the student respondents or 98.77 percent had their high n gh tn to school education in public schools which means that most of the students p ie pursued their secondary education in public schools availing of the w standardized education program d oa nl In students’ textual skills performance relative to combining sentences an lu findings showed that the percent correct items of the students for combining u nf va sentences is 69.8 percent with a verbal equivalent of average which means that the student respondents have achieved a certain degree of skill in ll m oi sentence combining For constructing sentences, the percent correct items of z at nh the students are 53.3 percent with a verbal equivalent of average which means z that the student respondents find sentence construction as the most difficult @ l gm component of textual performance and further implies that it doesn’t mean that m co if the skill is more basic, it would be easier for the students In connecting an Lu ideas, the percent correct items obtained by the students for connecting n va ac th si vi BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam sentences are 62.0 percent with a verbal equivalent of average which means that the student respondents find combining sentences as one of the less difficult components of the textual skills Moreover, in using words effectively the percent correct items of the lu an students for using words effectively is 54.3 percent with a verbal equivalent of va average which means that it is one of the more difficult components of the n gh tn to textual skills for the student respondents In relation to developing paragraph, p ie the percent correct items of the students for using developing paragraphs is w 59.5 percent with a verbal equivalent of average which means that in general d oa nl the students not find this skill to be very difficult nor too easy and further an lu means that the students have developed a certain degree of paragraph u nf va construction skills although not fully mature but enough to support their continuing growth in their tertiary years ll m oi In relationships between the students’ textual skills performance and z at nh their profile variables results indicated that for gender, the p-value for three out z of five component skills is below 0.05 indicating that the performance of the @ l gm male and the female students are significantly different which means that male m co students’ performance in combining sentences, connecting ideas and an Lu developing paragraphs is different from the female students’ performance n va ac th si vii BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Meanwhile, for the other two component skills pertaining to constructing sentences and using words effectively, the p-values are above 0.05 which means they are not significantly different For Parents’ Education, it can be noted that in three out of five component skills were the p-value is below 0.05 lu an or significantly different, specifically in secondary vs tertiary educated parents va For the degree of exposure to the English media, a p-value less than 0.05 was n gh tn to obtained only in connecting ideas for means involving least and moderate p ie exposure and least vs high exposure This indicates that it was only in w connecting ideas did the media exposure significantly affect the students’ d oa nl performance an lu For place of origin, all the five component skills, the p-values were below u nf va 0.05 and are significantly different for urban and rural origin which means that demographic factor is important in the learning performance of the students In ll m oi the case of the type of High School, only in using words effectively that the p- z at nh value was below 0.05 indicating that performance of the students in this area is z significantly different which means that education in the public schools is l gm @ generally not different from private schools m co As for the teachers’ assessment of the students’ textual skills performance in English, findings revealed that all of the 11 items obtained an an Lu n va ac th si viii BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam “agree” score of >50 percent which means that the teacher respondents unanimously consider all the listed items as pertinent items to assess the performance skills of the freshman students According to frequency of use by the students, results showed that seven out of the 11 items got ratings of 3.5 to lu 3.9 or equivalent to Often and five items out of 11 had a rating of 2.8 to 3.3 or an n va equivalent to Sometimes which means that in general, the teachers perceived As regards degree of importance results showed 10 out of the 11 items ie gh tn to that the students are performing their textual skills often p had mean scores close to 4.0 or equivalent to moderately important, and one oa nl w item had a score close to 5.0 or very important which indicates that the teacher respondents had a very high assessment of the degree of importance of the d lu va an different items under the textual skills u nf In the relationship of teacher’s assessment and the students’ textual ll performance in English findings revealed that the textual performance of the oi m students in three out of five areas is significantly different from the frequency z at nh ratings of the teachers which implies that the students’ performance in the z gm @ areas of combining sentence, constructing sentences and connecting ideas are not related to the teachers’ assessment In contrast, the students’ performance l m co score in using words effectively and developing paragraphs are not significantly an Lu different from the teachers’ assessment and are thus, related to each other n va ac th si ix BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam The t-test results on the component skills pertaining to using words effectively and developing paragraphs demonstrate a linkage between the student’s performance and the teacher assessment and thus could be predictable of each other Hence, interventions pertinent to these areas that lu an would be done by the teachers can be expected to influence the students’ va performance along these areas n to gh tn For the preparation of the proposed prototype lessons to develop p ie students’ textual skills performance, there are some elements considered for w this particular group of Vietnamese teachers and students which include the d oa nl following low performance score of the students in the component areas of the an lu textual skills, meaningful relationship of the performance scores with the profile teachers’ assessment ll u nf va variables, and meaningful relationship of the performance scores with the m oi From the findings and conclusions, the study recommended that the z at nh prototype lessons may be presented to school administrators for their review z and suggestions; that improvement of the designed prototype lessons should @ m co universities l gm be made; and further studies may be conducted along this line in private an Lu n va ac th si x BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam ACKNOWLEDGMENT The researcher expresses her profound gratitude to the valuable contributions of the following persons: Dr Matilda H Dimaano, Dissertation Adviser, for her guidance, critical lu an comments, suggestions and recommendations to improve this dissertation Her va n research expertise and sound advice make this academic work a reality; to gh tn Dr Corazon C Cabrera, Dr Myrna G Sulit, Dr Amada G Banaag, Dr p ie Maria Luisa A Valdez, and Dr Felix M Panopio, Panel Members, for their insights and valuable inputs; nl w d oa Dr Remedios P Magnaye, Recording Secretary, for her dedication in an lu encoding the minutes during the oral defense; u nf va All the personnel of the International Training Center (ITC), Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry, for their assistance; ll m oi The English teachers and students from the four selected universities of z at nh Thai Nguyen University System, who were the respondents of the study for z their cooperation; and @ gm Pham Hong Thai, her husband and Pham Hoang Minh, her son, her m co l parents and her parents in-law for all the support, love and encouragement Hoang Huong Ly an Lu n va ac th si 163 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to from a set of choices Connecting Ideas The student is able to correctly select conjunctive adverbs to connect ideas in a sentence Using words effectively The student is able to correctly supply the most effective words to replace a given word or set of words in a sentence Developing Paragraphs The student is able to correctly write a paragraph using an informal definition approach The student is able to correctly write a paragraph using the pattern of comparison or contrast approach d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 164 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Appendix B Letters of Request lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 165 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 166 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 167 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 168 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 169 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Appendix C Documentations (1) Photographs of the signing of approval letter lu an n va p ie gh tn to w Thai Nguyen University of Education d oa nl Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z l gm @ Thai Nguyen University of Technology m co an Lu Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology n va ac th si 170 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam (2) Photographs of the Study Sites lu an n va p ie gh tn to w Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry d oa nl Thai Nguyen University of Technology ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ Thai Nguyen University of Education an Lu Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology n va ac th si 171 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam (3) Photographs of Students Respondents lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu Thai Nguyen University of Technology n va ac th si 172 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z l gm @ m co Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry Thai Nguyen University of Education an Lu n va ac th si 173 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam (4) Photographs of Teacher Respondents lu an n va p ie gh tn to nl w d oa Thai Nguyen University of Technology ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry n va ac th si 174 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w Thai Nguyen University of Education ll u nf va an lu Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 175 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Appendix D Psychrometric Conversion Table lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si 176 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w ll u nf va an lu oi m z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu Source:http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/shimels/Courses/Files/ConvTable.pdf Accessed 05/08/2014 n va ac th si 177 BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Hoang Huong Ly THAI NGUYEN, VIET NAM Mobile phone: 0983687775 Email: lyhoanghuong1982@yahoo.com lu PERSONAL INFORMATION n va Birth place: Thai Nguyen, Viet Nam Age: 32 Nationality: Vietnamese Religion: None tn to 13/ 09/ 1982 gh an Date of birth: p ie Sex: oa nl w Spouse: Female Pham Hong Thai d Children’s name: Pham Hoang Minh an lu EDUCATION BACKGROUND va Bachelor of Arts (Major in English) Thai Nguyen University of Education 2005 - 2009: Master of Arts Major in English (Applied Linguistics) La Trobe University, Australia ll u nf 2000 - 2004: oi m z at nh z gm @ WORK EXPERIENCE Lecturer of Department of Foreign Languages Thai Nguyen University of Education 2006 – present: Lecturer of Department of Foreign Languages Thai Nguyen University of Technology m co l 2004 - 2006: an Lu n va ac th si