(Luận văn tmu) how to improve english listening skill of k52 english faculty students at tmu

ABSTRACT It has been acknowledged that English has been used all over the world It means that English is a means of communication that is used internationally by people to communicate with others to transfer ideas, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or messages Nowadays, people need to be able to use English due to globalization In English, There are four skills in learning language: listening, speaking, reading and writing Naturally, the process of learning is started from listening speaking-reading and the last is writing Human cannot speak before listen Wallace (2004:13) wrote that listening skill is very important skill because this skill may human acquire perception, knowledge, information and success in communicating with others However, listening is not simple process One is able to listen means she/he can differentiate between sounds, comprehend and understand vocabulary and grammar, interpret intonation and meaning, consider everything in the same time, and also adjust to the social cultural context from utterances that are listened (Vandergrift, 2012).Therefore, the present study attempts to investigate the English listening problems encountered by a group of third year English major students at Thuong Mai University and suggests solutions so as to improve their English language listening skill Survey questionnaires and interview questions are used to collect data I administered a questionnaire to 200 third- year English major students at Thuong Mai University This study included chapters Firstly, chapter showed the overview of the study This chapter provided general information about rationale, previous, scope, i aims, research methodology and organization of the study Secondly chapter was literature review related to research topic Thirdly, reseach methodology was chapter which included participants and instruments Next, chapter was most essential chapter of this study, named Research Findings Data is analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics and qualitatively using content analysis Chapter is recommendations and suggestions The results of this study may also be useful for those who are interested in this field ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Dr Nguyen Khac Nghia, for his professional guidance, intelligent advice, caring, patience, and continuous support in all stages of this thesis I have been extremely lucky to have a supervisor who cared so much about my work, and who responded to my questions and queries so promptly Without his invaluable supervision and words of encouragement, this thesis would not have been possible I am also thankful to 200 participants in this study for their patience and cooperation This study would not have been successful without their assistance Finally, I am also grateful to my family and English major students who have enthusiastically helped and encouraged me during the time I conducted this work Thank you so much! Hanoi, 23, March, 2019 Phuong Nguyen Thi Phuong iii iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii TABLE OF CONTENTS .iii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES .v LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS vi CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY 1.1 Reason of the study 1.2 Research questions 1.3 Research scope 1.4 Method 1.5 Aims of the study 1.6 Organization of the study .3 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW .4 2.1 Overview of listening 2.1.1 Definition of listening and listening comprehension 2.1.2 The importance of listening skill 2.1.3 Types of listening 2.1.4 Stages of listening 2.2 Difficulties in learning the English listening skill .10 2.2.1 Problems students face when listening .10 2.2.2 Characteristics of spoken language making listening so difficult 13 v 2.2.3 Factors affecting to the English listening 14 CHAPTER 3: RESEACH METHODOLOGY 16 3.1 Participants 16 3.2 Instruments 16 3.3 Data collections .17 3.4 Data analysis 17 CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH FINDINGS 19 4.1 Result and discussion 19 4.1.1 Current situation of practising listening English to third - year English major students at TMU .19 4.1.2 The attitude of students at TMU towards the position of listening skill .19 4.1.3 Students Self-assessment in English listening skills 21 4.1.4 The emphasized skill in the previous 22 4.1.5 Students’ emotion in learning English listening 22 4.2 Causes make students feel difficult in listening to English 23 4.2.1 Problems students meet in listening to English .23 4.2.2 Factors affecting to students in listening to English 28 4.3 Suggestions for student to improve English listening skill 29 4.3.1 Solution1: Consolidating language foundation 30 4.3.2 Solution 2: Listen and repeat stories or anything you like in English and practice 31 4.3.3 Solution 3: Always creating an talk environment by English anytime anywhere 31 vi CHAPTER 5: RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS .32 5.1 Summary of the study 32 5.2 Research implications 32 5.3 Recommendation 33 5.4 Limitations of the study 33 5.5 Suggestions for future research 33 CONCLUSIONS 34 REFERENCES vii APPENDIX ix vii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES No 4.1 List of tables and charts List of tables Students’ feeling about the English listening lesson Page 19 4.1 List of charts Profiles of students 20 4.1 Attitude of students towards the position of listening skill 21 4.1 Students Self-assessment in English listening skills 22 4.1 The highlighted skill in the previous 22 4.2 Problems related the listeners 23 4.2 Problems related to the listening materials 25 4.2 Listening problems related to Linguistic feature 27 4.2 Others factors affecting to the listening process 28 4.3 Solutions for overcoming to improve English listening skill for 3rd year students 29 viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS No Abbreviations TMU Etc CDs EL EFL English meaning Thuongmai University et cetera Compact discs English language English as a Foreign Language ix CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY 1.1 Reason of the study Nowadays, explosive science and technology and globalization, proficient English is extremely necessary No one denies the importance of English language in the present time as global language It is clear that English has become more and more dominant around the world Actually, in some countries it is used as the mother tongue and others countries learn it as second language in their school There is no doubt that English is language of communication between the people from different cultures Therefore, learning English plays an important role in education and the development of the country The four language skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing that all language learners are supposed to acquire If learning English is like building a house, English listening is building a foundation for the house Listening is believed to be the most challenging due to the complex and subtle nature of listening comprehension in a second or foreign language In fact, there are a variety of learners who cannot communicate English fluently after many years of foreign language studying To speak English fluently, you must listen to English well We just can exchange information each other when understanding what are partner saying Consequently, bad listening will affect to the conversation All these reason, offered the researchers a chance to conduct a study on “How to improve English listening skill of K52 English faculty students at TMU”