(Luận văn) workbook on english language micro skills for first year college students in selected universities in thai nguyen province, vietnam

i THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines WORKBOOK ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE MICRO-SKILLS FOR FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE, VIETNAM lu A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of Graduate School Batangas State University Batangas City, Philippines an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Of Doctor of Philosophy Major in English z at nh z l gm @ By: DANG THI THU HUONG m co June 2015 an Lu n va ac th si ii THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines APPROVAL SHEET This dissertation entitled “WORKBOOK ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE MICRO-SKILLS FOR FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE, VIETNAM” prepared and submitted by DANG THI THU HUONG 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 lu an n va MATILDA H DIMAANO, Ph.D Adviser gh tn to p ie PANEL OF EXAMINERS Approved by the committee on Oral Examination with a grade of _ w d oa nl DR AMADA G BANAAG Chairman an lu DR FELIX M PANOPIO Member oi lm ul nf va DR MARIA LUISA A VALDEZ Member z at nh DR MYRNA G SULIT External Representative z Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy major in English m co l MATILDA H DIMAANO, Ph.D Dean, Graduate Studies College of Arts and Sciences an Lu _ Date gm @ Comprehensive Examination: PASSED n va ac th si iii THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines ABSTRACT Title : Workbook on English Language Micro-skill for First Year College Students in Selected Universities in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam lu an n va : Dang Thi Thu Huong Course : Doctor of Philosophy Major : English Year : 2015 Adviser : Dr Matilda H Dimaano ie gh tn to Author p Summary w oa nl The study was conducted to assess the English language micro- skill d needs of first year college students in selected universities in Thai Nguyen an lu Province, Vietnam It covered the level of English language proficiency among nf va oi lm ul students in the four modes of language performance in reading, writing, speaking and listening The faculty also assessed the students English micro z at nh skills relative to motor-perceptual skills for spoken and written media, z intonation skills concerned with understanding and conveying meaning @ l gm especially attitudinal meaning, deductive skills: deducing meaning or use of unfamiliar lexical items such as reducing recourse to use of dictionary, m co perceptual or communicative skills, conceptual skills: understanding and an Lu expressing conceptual meaning, intrasentencial structure and semantic n va ac th si iv THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines relations skills, discourse coherence skills and information transfer skills This study also determined which among the four modes of language performance the students find most difficult and which among the English micro skills students find difficult as assessed by faculty respondents The lu an output of the study is a proposed supplementary workbook to enhance the va n students micro skill needs tn to ie gh The study covered the four (4) Thai Nguyen Universities in Thai Nguyen p Province with three hundred eighty (380) freshman students and 53 English oa nl w language teachers as respondents of the study It made use of descriptive research and utilized the survey questionnaire and the teacher- made- test as d lu va an the data gathering instruments ul nf Results of the study as to the level of students’ proficiency in the four oi lm modes of English language performance, students generally have an average z at nh proficiency in all the test areas in the performance in reading with an average correct rating of 65.26 percent and a verbal equivalent of average with the z @ gm highest proficiency was observed in the areas on context clues and fact and m co l inference with 82.05 percent, and topic sentence and main idea with a percent correct scores of 69.26 percent and 68.86 percent respectively; and summary an Lu statements with a percent correct score of 42.32 percent and interpreted as n va ac th si v THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines low average In writing students generally showed an average performance with an average correct score of 54.57 percent This value may appear high and above 50 percent, but among the component areas, only three of the five items had lu an high values which mean that the students have developed proficiency along va n these three component areas with most adeptness gained in words in tn to ie gh sentences where they get the high average rating The two low scoring items p are punctuation and modifier placement with the former acquiring the lowest oa nl w performance rating of 18.42 percent For speaking, students generally showed an average performance with d lu va an a percent correct rating of 49.11 percent which means the students were ul nf performing at an average level in the modality of speaking Numerically, the oi lm performance in speaking was lower and below 50 percent The students z at nh showed the lowest numerical proficiency value in this language mode indicating this area to be the weakest In listening on the other hand, the z @ gm students generally showed an average proficiency with an average correct m co l rating of 59.28 percent Though this value appears to be high and above 50 percent, only the items on sentence constituents and grammatical word class an Lu contributed to the high values which mean that the students were proficient in n va ac th si vi THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines grammatical areas of listening and less proficient in vocabulary and main idea finding In terms of faculty assessment of the students’ English language microskills, all of the 20 items obtained an agree score of >84.91 percent with six lu an items that recorded a score of 84.91 percent which means that the list va n presented are valid language micro-skills that can be used to assess students’ tn to ie gh linguistic proficiency The micro-skill with the highest agree score is perceptual- p communicative skills while the lowest is the conceptual skills According to the oa nl w frequency of use, findings revealed that all of the items got ratings >3.6 which is verbally equivalent to often which means that the teachers generally d lu va an perceived all the micro-skills to be practiced often by the students The item ul nf with the highest score is a tie between perceptual- communicative skills and oi lm intrasentencial structure and semantic relations skills both with a mean z at nh frequency score of 4.0 The teacher respondents also rate the micro-skill items according to z @ gm their degree of importance Results indicate that all of the items had ratings m co l >4.4 which means that the items could range from moderate to very important The item with the highest rating in terms of degree of importance is a tie an Lu between perceptual- communicative skills and intonation skills The lowest n va ac th si vii THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines scoring item is intrasentential structure and semantic relations skills In the aspect of difficulties encountered by students in the four modes of language, seven out of the 17 test areas on the four modes of language, students got the proficiency rating below 50 percent These areas are lu an punctuation and modifier placement in riting, word order and use of stress in va n speaking, meaning of words and topic sentence in listening, and summary tn to ie gh statements in reading There were two difficult component items each for p writing, speaking, and istening and only one item for reading This means that oa nl w reading in spite of being the most advance skill, difficulties are still encountered by students in this modality, particularly in making summary statements d lu va an Relative to the teachers’ assessment of the students’ micro-skills in the ul nf four modes of language according to the frequency of use, results showed that oi lm all the items got ratings of >3.7 which is verbally equivalent to often which z at nh indicates that all the micro-skills are used often by the students The item with the highest mean frequency score is the item that pertains to the use of correct z @ gm words, a writing micro-skill followed by the item on fact and inference, a m co l reading micro-skill, and the item on form of words, a speaking micro-skill According to their degree of importance, all of the items had ratings >4.4 an Lu which means that the items could range from moderate to very important This n va ac th si viii THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines indicates that the teacher respondents generally perceived all the micro-skills to be of a high degree of importance and thus, must always be included in the teaching scheme and competency assessment of freshman students The item with the highest rating in terms of degree of importance is a tie between lu an perceptual-communicative skills and intonation skills The lowest scoring item va n is intrasentential structure and semantic relations skills tn to assessment and students’ ie gh As to the relationship of teacher’s p performance in the three language modalities, results indicate that 14 out of 17 oa nl w micro-skill items compared showed significant differences The significantly different label indicates that the students’ proficiency scores are not related to d lu va an the teachers’ frequency assessment and are independent of each other which ul nf mean that in majority of the micro-skills evaluated, no relationship could be oi lm established between the students’ performance and the teachers’ assessment z at nh For the proposed supplementary workbook to address the micro-skill deficiencies of the students in four modes of language, criteria were made as z @ gm bases The study recommended that the proposed supplementary workbook m co l be reviewed, tried out and evaluated; that teachers need to be given series of trainings along language teaching; and that this study may be replicated along an Lu this area in other universities n va ac th si ix THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines ACKNOWLEDGMENT The researcher would like to convey her sincere gratitude to the following persons whose valuable contributions lead to the completion of this academic work lu an Dr Dang Kim Vui, President of Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam for the va opportunity given to be included in the Ph.D English Program in partnership n Dr.Matilda H Dimaano, Dissertation Adviser, for the valuable inputs, p ie gh tn to with Batangas State University, Philippines nl w critical comments, suggestions and recommendations that greatly improved d oa this study Her expertise in research, guidance and encouragement contributed an lu much in the completion of this study ul nf va The Panel of Examiners, Dr Corazon B Cabrera, , Dr Felix M oi lm Panopio, Dr Amada G Banaag, Dr Maria Luisa A Valdez, Dr Myrna G Sulit, for their insights, and commendable suggestions; z at nh Dr Remedios P Magnaye, Recording Secretary, for sharing her time in z gm @ encoding the minutes of the oral defense and for her assistance; Dr Nguyen Tuan Anh; Dr Nguyen The Hung, Former Directors, and Dr l m co Hoang Thi Bich Thao, Director of the International Training Center, Thai an Lu Nguyen University, for their support and encouragement; n va ac th si x THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines The Rectors of the four selected universities of Thai Nguyen University for their permission to conduct the study; The Teachers and the Student respondents of the study, for their active participation and cooperation; lu an All her friends, her parents and relatives for their encouragement and va n support ie gh tn to p Dang Thi Thu Huong d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Appendix C Validation Letters on the Test for Students & Teacher Questionnaire Republic of the Philippines BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL Gov Pablo Borbon-Main Campus I Batangas City lu 23 June 2014 an n va DR RENATO ROSALES English Language Expert tn to Sir: p ie gh Greetings! The undersigned is hereby submitting a copy of the proposed questionnaire that will be utilized in gathering data for my dissertation entitled, ”PROPOSED WORKBOOK ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE MICRO-SKILL FOR FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENT IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE, VIETNAM.” In this regard, I would like to request your kind assistance to validate this research instrument Attached is the statement of the problem and the questionnaire d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va Very truly yours, an lu Thank you very much! Noted by: z at nh (SGD) DANG THI THU HUONG (Stephany) Researcher z m co l an Lu RENATO ROSALES, PhD gm Validated by: @ MATILDA H DIMAANO, PhD Dissertation Adviser n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Republic of the Philippines BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL Gov Pablo Borbon-Main Campus I Batangas City 23 June 2014 lu DR FELIX PANOPIO Panel Member an n va Sir: p ie gh tn to Greetings! The undersigned is hereby submitting a copy of the proposed questionnaire that will be utilized in gathering data for my dissertation entitled, ”PROPOSED WORKBOOK ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE MICRO-SKILL FOR FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENT IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE, VIETNAM.” In this regard, I would like to request your kind assistance to validate this research instrument Attached is the statement of the problem and the questionnaire oa nl w d Thank you very much! nf va an lu Very truly yours, z Validated by: m co an Lu FELIX PANOPIO, PhD l gm @ MATILDA H DIMAANO, PhD Dissertation Adviser z at nh Noted by: oi lm ul (SGD) DANG THI THU HUONG (Stephany) Researcher n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Republic of the Philippines BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL Gov Pablo Borbon-Main Campus I Batangas City 23 June 2014 lu DR AMADA BANAAG Panel Member an n va Madam: p ie gh tn to Greetings! The undersigned is hereby submitting a copy of the proposed questionnaire that will be utilized in gathering data for my dissertation entitled, ”PROPOSED WORKBOOK ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE MICRO-SKILL FOR FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENT IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE, VIETNAM.” In this regard, I would like to request your kind assistance to validate this research instrument Attached is the statement of the problem and the questionnaire d oa nl w ul nf va Very truly yours, an lu Thank you very much! oi lm (SGD) DANG THI THU HUONG (Stephany) Researcher m co l gm an Lu AMADA BANAAG, PhD @ Validated by: z MATILDA H DIMAANO, PhD Dissertation Adviser z at nh Noted by: n va ac th si ccxi THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Appendix D Letters of Requests to the Heads of Institutions lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Appendix E: Photographs of the Study Sites lu an n va p ie gh tn to University of Sciences d oa nl w University of Education oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z l gm @ University of Economics and Business Administration m co University of Agriculture and Forestry an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Appendix F: Photographs of the Test Questionnaire Dry Run Teachers’ Survey Questionnaire dry run lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w an lu Students' Test Questionnaire dry run oi lm ul nf va z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Appendix G BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Photographs of the Heads of Four Universities where Letters of Requests were Forwarded for Signature to Conduct the Study lu an n va p ie gh tn to oa nl w University of Sciences d University of Education oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ University of Economics and Business Administration an Lu University of Agriculture and Forestry n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Appendix H: Photographs of Students Respondents lu an n va p ie gh tn to University of Sciences d oa nl w University of Education oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ University of Economics and Business Administration an Lu University of Agriculture and Forestry n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Appendix I: Photographs of Teacher Respondents lu an n va p ie gh tn to w University of Sciences d oa nl University of Education oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu University of Economics and Business Administration n va University of Agriculture and Forestry ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines Appendix J Psychrometric Conversion Table lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z m co l gm @ an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines lu an n va p ie gh tn to d oa nl w oi lm ul nf va an lu z at nh z @ m co l gm Source:http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/shimels/Courses/Files/ConvTable.pdf Accessed 05/08/2014 an Lu n va ac th si ccx THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Republic of the Philippines CURRICULUM VITAE lu Name: DANG THI THU HUONG Nick name: Stephany Mobile phone: 0084 944060305 Email: dthuongdhsptn@gmail.com an n va PERSONAL INFORMATION 31 March 1977 Thai Nguyen, Vietnam 38 Vietnamese Female Dinh Le Kien Dinh Duc Manh and Dinh Bao Ngoc p ie gh tn to Date of birth: Birth place: Age: Nationality: Sex: Spouse: Children’s name: d oa nl w Master of Arts in English (with units) ul nf 2001 - 2005: va an lu EDUCATION BACKGROUND 1997 - 2001: oi lm La Trobe University, Australia Bachelor of Arts (Major in English) z at nh Thai Nguyen University of Education z l English Lecturer Thai Nguyen University of Education m co 2005 - present: gm @ WORK EXPERIENCE an Lu n va ac th si