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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Development
Chapter 1: Literature review
1.1. Basic concept about ESP
1.1.1. Definitions of ESP
1.1.2. Types of ESP
1.2. Reading in ESP teaching and learning
1.2.1. Reading skills in ESP
1.2.2. ESP teachers and their roles
1.2.3. ESP students and their roles
1.2.4. ESP reading materials and their roles
1.3. Difficulties in ESP reading
1.3.1. Reading skill problems
1.3.2. Language problems
1.3.3. Cultural background knowledge problems
1.4. Summary
Chapter two: The current situation of teaching and learning
English for Finance at Hanoi Vocational Training College for
Electro-Mechanics
2.1. Institution
2.2. The teachers and their methods of teaching
2.3. The students and their background knowledge
2.4. The teaching and learning English at Hanoi Vocational Training College for Electro-
Mechanics
2.5. General review of the course book “English for Finance”
2.5.1. Rationale for choosing the course book and objectives of the course
2.5.2. Topics, terminologies and grammatical structures
2.5.3. Characteristics of reading texts
2.6. Summary
Chapter three: Research methodology
3.1. Participants
3.2. Data collection methods
3.3. Data collection procedure
3.4. Data analysis
3.5. Summary
Chapter four: Findings and discussion
4.1. Discussion of the results collected by means of the questionnaire
4.1.1. Students’ attitude towards ESP reading
4.1.2. Students’ perception on the purposes of learning reading English for Finance
4.1.3. Students’ focus when learning English for Finance
4.1.4. Students’ difficulties in learning reading English for Finance
4.1.5. The causes for these difficulties in learning reading English for Finance
4.1.6. The learners’ expectation in terms of materials
4.1.7. The learners’ expectation in terms of methodology
4.2. Discussion of the results collected by means of the interview, classroom observation and
journal keeping
4.2.1. Teachers’ attitude towards ESP reading
4.2.2. Teachers’ opinion on the course book they are teaching
4.2.3. Teachers’ focus when teaching reading English for Finance
4.2.4. Teachers’ techniques to teach students in reading English for Finance
4.2.5. Teachers’ difficulties in teaching reading English for Finance
4.3. Summary
Chapter five: Recommendations
5.1. Training students to become efficient readers
5.1.1. Improving students with different reading strategies
Encouraging students to develop extensive reading habits
5.2. Improving teachers’ techniques in teaching English for Finance
5.3. Developing English for Finance reading material
5.4. Improving teachers’ professional knowledge about economics
5.5. Improving teachers’ teaching methodology
5.6. Summary
Part 3: Conclusion
References
Appendices