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THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines PROTOTYPE LESSONS ON DEVELOPING TEXTUAL SKILL OF FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS OF THE THAI NGUYEN SYSTEM A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of Graduate School Batangas State University Batangas City, Philippines In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Major in English By: HOANG HUONG LY (LILY) 2015 THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines ABSTRACT Title : Prototype Lessons on Developing Textual Skill of First Year College Students of the Thai Nguyen System Author : Hoang Huong Ly Degree : Doctor of Philosophy major in English Language and Literature Year : 2015 Advisor : Dr. Matilda H. Dimanno Summary This study attempts to assess textual skill of first year college students of Thai Nguyen System. Specifically, it sought answers to the following questions: 1) What is the demographic profile of students in terms of gender, parents‟ educational attainment, students‟ exposure to English media, place of origin, and school graduated from?; 2) What is the respondents' textual performance in terms of combining sentences, constructing sentences, connecting ideas, using words effectively, and developing paragraph?; 3) Are there significant relationships between the students' textual performance and their profile variables?; 4) How do teachers assess the textual performance of students in English?; 5) Are there significant differences on students‟ textual performance and THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines teachers‟ assessment on the same areas? and 6) What prototype lessons may be proposed to develop students‟ textual performance? Two sets of instruments - the survey questionnaire for teacher respondents and the teacher-made test for student respondents - were used to determine textual skill of first year college students of Thai Nguyen System and teachers‟ assessment on the same areas. The research found out that college students have equal gender distribution, well-educated parents, not well exposed to the English media, came from urban areas, and pursued their secondary education in public schools. They have skills in sentence combining with average performance in constructing sentences, connecting ideas, using words effectively and developing paragraph. Male students‟ performance in combining sentences, connecting ideas and developing paragraphs is different from the female students‟ performance. College students performed their textual skill in using words effectively, but the performance of the students in this area is significantly different. Teachers considered all the component skills important for students to develop and they had a very high assessment of the degree of importance of the different items under the textual skills. However, student‟s performance in the areas of combining sentence, constructing sentences and connecting ideas are not related to the teacher‟s assessment. Based on the findings, the prototype lessons are designed to provide a learning THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines material that would address the inadequacies of the student population, this being part of the emerging trend of responsive and outcome -based language education. THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researcher wishes to acknowledge with her profound gratitude to the valuable constributions of the following individuals: Dr. Matilda H. Dimaano, her dissertation advisor, for her enthusiastic guidance, critical comments, thorough suggestions, and great encouragement that help her to accomplish the dissertation in time. Dr. Corazon Cabrera, Dr Remedios P. Magnaye, Dr. Amada G. Abanaag, Dr. Ma Luisa Valdez, and Dr Felix Panopio, members of the panel, for their insightful comment and suggestions, their wisdom and expertise in research to enrich her study. All the members of ITC, Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry, for their assistant and facilitating. The teachers of English at Thai Nguyen University, especially at four selected universites, for their friendship, generosity, assistance, and cooporation. The first year college students of academic year 2014-2015 who served as the subjects of the study, for their enthusiasm and cooperation. Her love and inspiration, Pham Hong Thai and her lovely son - Pham Hoang Minh, who are always with her and always in her heart, for their deep love, unceasing support both moral and finance, and their faith and great encouragement that push her through writing. THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines Her big family, especially her Mum and Dad and her parents-in-law, who always believe in her and are proud of her - their daughter. Hoang Huong Ly THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines TABLE OF CONTENTS Page TITLE PAGE……………………………………………………… TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………… LIST OF TABLES………………………………………………… LIST OF FIGURES…………………………………………………………….……. CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM Introduction 1 Statement of the Problem………………………… 5 Scope, Delimitation and Limitation……………… 6 Significance of the Study…………………………… 8 II. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Conceptual Literature………………………………. 10 Research Literature………………………………… 44 Synthesis…………………………………………… 51 Theoretical Framework…………………………… 53 Conceptual Framework…………………………… 55 Hypothesis…………………………………………… 58 Definition of Terms………………………………… 58 III. RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURE THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines Research Environment ……………………………. 60 Research Design……… 62 Subject of Study……………………………………… 62 Data Gathering Instrument…………………………. 64 Data Gathering Procedure………………………… 66 Statistical Treatment of Data……………………… 66 IV. PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 68 V. SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION Summary of Findings 116 Conclusions 128 Recommendations 129 BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………… 130 APPENDICES A. Letters of Request ………………………………. 138 B. Questionnaires ……………… 144 C. Documentations………………………………… 160 CURRICULUM VITAE THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1 Distribution of Population and Sample…………………… 63 2 Gender Profile of the Student Respondents ……………. 68 3 Parent's Education Profile of the Student Respondents 69 4 Profile of students‟ exposure to English media ………… 70 5 Type of English media exposure by the student respondents ………………………………………………… 71 6 Place of origin of the Student Respondents …….……… 73 7 Type of High School of the Student Respondents …… 74 8 Level of student's performance in the different textual skill test……………………………………………………… 77 9 Student's Performance in the Textual Skills Tests stratified according to the Profile Variables ……………… 86 10 List Textual Performance of the Students as assessed by the Teachers ……………………………………………………. 90 11 Students‟ English Language Performance and their Frequency of Use ………………………………………… 92 12 Students‟ English Language Performance and their Degree of Importance …………………………………… 93 13 Student's Performance and Teachers‟ assessment on the Students‟ Textual Competence……………………… 94 14 Basis in the Design of Prototype Lessons to Develop Students‟ Textual Performance ………………………… 96 THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. Conceptual Paradigm of the Study 55 . Pham Hong Thai and her lovely son - Pham Hoang Minh, who are always with her and always in her heart, for their deep love, unceasing support both moral and finance, and their faith and great encouragement. lingua franca of the entire world. Although English is only the third in rank among the world languages, the first of which is Chinese Mandarin and the second is Spanish, the wide adoption and. textual skill thoroughly and often pratise writing, they are able to use words and compound or complex sentences exactly and effectively to express their ideas logically. Language learning proceeds