CHAPTER III: DESIGNING AN APPROPRIATE ESP READING SYLLABUS
APPENDIX 2 SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENTS
The only purpose of this questionnaire is to collect the ideas and opinions of the teachers to design an appropriate ESP reading syllabus for the third-year students of English for International Relations at Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. Therefore, your answers to the questions will be of great importance to the process of designing this ESP reading syllabus. So please respond to each question and fulfill all of them as frankly as possible.
Thank you for your cooperation.
1. Please rank the following objectives needed to be achieved at the end of the ESP course for the students of English for International Relations at Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, on the order of importance from the most important to the least important (from 1 to 5), and add your own objectives (if any)
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2.Please select the topics that you think are relevant to the English for International Relations reading course and add more of your own (if any)
To build up English terms of International Relations used in books, documents, and newspapers.
To read and understand concepts of the field of International Relations.
To read and understand written English materials and books relating to International Relations.
To consolidate basic grammar structures used in specific texts for International Relations.
To translate books and newspapers (relating to the field of International Relation) from English to Vietnamese.
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3. Select the types of reading exercises that you think should be included in the English for International Relations reading course and add more of your own (if any)
Items Necessary Reading skills and exercises for developing reading skills
Reading exercises
1. Skimming (Choose correct best title, Discover the main ideas, Choose pictures or graphs dealt with the text, etc.)
2. Scanning to have specific information 3. Utilizing the non-text information 4. Interpreting cohesive devices 5.Interpreting discourse markers 6.Write the summary for the texts
Items Topics Very relevant Relevant Not relevant
1 Globalization 2 Regionalization 3 New World Order 4 Development
5 ASEAN
6 EU
7 UN
8 APEC
9 Vietnam’s Foreign Policy 10 Poverty
11 Natural Disasters 12 Destructive weapons
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7.Read and give opinions and reasons 8. Give questions to the answers 9.Translation
Grammar exercises
10. Sentence building
11. Rewrite the sentences without changing the meaning
12. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses 13. Complete sentences with the correct prepositions
Vocabulary 14. Find synonyms and antonyms of words or phrases used in the reading text
15. Find the words or phrases to match with the definition
16. Word-transformation
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SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR TEACHERS
The only purpose of this questionnaire is to collect the ideas and opinions of the teachers to design an appropriate ESP reading syllabus for the third-year students of English for International Relations at Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.
Therefore, your answers to the questions will be of great importance to the process of designing this ESP reading syllabus. So please respond to each question and fulfill all of them as frankly as possible.
Thank you for your cooperation.
1. Please rank the following objectives needed to be achieved at the end of the ESP course for the students of English for International Relations at Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, on the order of importance from the most important to the least important (from 1 to 5), and add your own objectives (if any)
2.Please select the topics that you think are relevant to the English for International Relations reading course and add more of your own (if any)
To build up English terms of International Relations used in books, documents, and newspapers.
To read and understand concepts of the field of International Relations.
To read and understand written English materials and books relating to International Relations.
To consolidate basic grammar structures used in specific texts for International Relations.
To translate books and newspapers (relating to the field of International Relation) from English to Vietnamese.
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3. Select the types of reading exercises that you think should be included in the English for International Relations reading course and add more of your own (if any)
Items Necessary Reading skills and exercises for developing reading skills
Reading exercises
1. Skimming (Choose correct best title, Discover the main ideas, Choose pictures or graphs dealt with the text, etc.)
2. Scanning to have specific information 3. Utilizing the non-text information 4. Interpreting cohesive devices 5.Interpreting discourse markers 6.Write the summary for the texts 7.Read and give opinions and reasons 8. Give questions to the answers 9.Translation
Items Topics Very relevant Relevant Not relevant
1 Globalization 2 Regionalization 3 New World Order 4 Development
5 ASEAN
6 EU
7 UN
8 APEC
9 Vietnam’s Foreign Policy 10 Poverty
11 Natural Disasters 12 Destructive weapons
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exercises
10. Sentence building
11. Rewrite the sentences without changing the meaning 12. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses 13. Complete sentences with the correct prepositions Vocabulary 14. Find synonyms and antonyms of words or phrases
used in the reading text
15. Find the words or phrases to match with the definition
16. Word-transformation
IV APPENDIX 2
SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENTS
The only purpose of this questionnaire is to collect the ideas and opinions of the teachers to design an appropriate ESP reading syllabus for the third-year students of English for International Relations at Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.
Therefore, your answers to the questions will be of great importance to the process of designing this ESP reading syllabus. So please respond to each question and fulfill all of them as frankly as possible.
Thank you for your cooperation.
1. Please rank the following objectives needed to be achieved at the end of the ESP course for the students of English for International Relations at Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, on the order of importance from the most important to the least important (from 1 to 5), and add your own objectives (if any)
2.Please select the topics that you think are relevant to the English for International Relations reading course and add more of your own (if any)
To build up English terms of International Relations used in books, documents, and newspapers.
To read and understand concepts of the field of International Relations.
To read and understand written English materials and books relating to International Relations.
To consolidate basic grammar structures used in specific texts for International Relations.
To translate books and newspapers (relating to the field of International Relation) from English to Vietnamese.
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3. Select the types of reading exercises that you think should be included in the English for International Relations reading course and add more of your own (if any)
Items Necessary Reading skills and exercises for developing reading skills
Reading exercises
1. Skimming (Choose correct best title, Discover the main ideas, Choose pictures or graphs dealt with the text, etc.)
2. Scanning to have specific information 3. Utilizing the non-text information 4. Interpreting cohesive devices 5.Interpreting discourse markers 6.Write the summary for the texts 7.Read and give opinions and reasons 8. Give questions to the answers 9.Translation
Grammar 10. Sentence building
Items Topics Very relevant Relevant Not relevant
1 Globalization 2 Regionalization 3 New World Order 4 Development
5 ASEAN
6 EU
7 UN
8 APEC
9 Vietnam’s Foreign Policy 10 Poverty
11 Natural Disasters 12 Destructive weapons