INTRODUCTION 1. Aims of the study News is sine qua non for active life. None can ignore the milieu in which he lives. Only news keeps us in tough with the milieu in which we live. It gives us the insight to the dynamics that form the environment around us, it be in local or regional or national or international level. The main conveyor of news is newspaper. Neither the advent of television nor that of internet could affect the importance of the newspaper. The reason for it is the width, breadth and the depth of news provided by the newspaper, its low cost and the ease of providing the news at our leisure and comfort as many time as we desire. People of all profession need newspapers. Reading newspapers is a must for students and adults for growth and enlightenment irrespective of the class or field of their life. And it is a very important part with a remarkable position of newspaper news story. English is spoken over 70 countries and in 20; more English occupies an important position. Many newspapers are published in English. It is estimated that the two thirds of all scientific newspaper are first published in English. It is also the most common international working languages. Therefore, to a developing country like Vietnam, English is a popular foreign language for all people. They are trying their best to learn English well due to the fact that English will help them to keep up with advanced technology, modern culture, and up-to-date information in the world. Written-in-English journals are available in all news stands, so it is easy for us to get one. However, to study English with newspaper and magazines is not easy. We would not understand the information deeply in the newspaper if we are lack of any ability on analyzing the news, especially on structural analyzing. Information of the newspaper is transported to the readers under the text form which is very complicated and diverse. Thus, it still has the main characters that here, in this paper, I study on and choose the topic “A study on the structural features of English news story” with the hope of giving the readers the useful knowledge on newspaper, since better their insights to the changing-world. News story plays an important role in newspaper that is occupied a great number of English language one which is considered the international language. Therefore, to understand about the all news deeply, the readers need to know about English and more, about the structural analysis the text which is a common difficulty for the reader as well as the English leaner. Being a student of English, I would like to present structural features of the English news story so that the readers and learner can understand comprehensively about the topic. As these learning, we can have some basic knowledge in getting information from news stories in newspaper written in the international language, English, then develop the ability in translation and many other related fields. 2. Scope of the study Due to the limitation of space and time, within the framework of this study, this paper can not cover the whole features and details of news story. Since, I decided to analyze the structural features including headline, topic sentence, body-part structure, the sub-title, and the discourse of the news story. From which, I would like to draw some difficulties of Vietnamese readers when they translate the news story. To sum up, the scope of the study may be shown as follow: a) Analyzing some structural features of the news story b) Suggesting some difficulties and strategies to cope with problems relating translating. 3. Methods of the study In fulfilling this study, I have applied some methods such as survey, statistic and comparison. A reference of books from authors, materials from different sources and foreign languages also helps me a lot. All English examples in the study were taken from the International Herald Tribune newspaper which uses the Standard English and updates information daily from all over the world. Furthermore, studying with it would help improve my English so much. Moreover, my supervisor, an experienced teacher, has helpfully directed me to the appropriate ways to carry out this study. 4. Design of the study For the limited framework, this graduation paper is divided into three parts as follow: Part A is the Introduction of the study which introduces my reasons and aims to write the thesis. This part includes the aims, scopes, methods and design of the study. Part B is the main part of the study that consists of three chapters below • Chapter I focuses on the theories of the study. • Chapter II is an Analysis of the structural features of English news story. • Chapter III concentrates on some difficulties and strategies in translating news story Part C is the Conclusion of the study in which I give a summary of major findings, an identification of limitation of the study and an exploration the implication for the future research. In the final part, bibliography and sources of materials for the study are listed. . INTRODUCTION 1. Aims of the study News is sine qua non for active life. None. this graduation paper is divided into three parts as follow: Part A is the Introduction of the study which introduces my reasons and aims to write the