Luận văn an action research on using music and animated cartoons to teach english to primary students at dong hoa primary school

UNIVERSSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES, --- CB YEE ----——— VŨ THỊ XUÂN AN ACTION RESEARCH ON USING MUSIC AND ANIMATED CARTOONS TO TEACH

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UNIVERSSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES,

- CB YEE) ———

VŨ THỊ XUÂN

AN ACTION RESEARCH ON USING MUSIC AND ANIMATED

CARTOONS TO TEACH ENGLISH TO PRIMARY STUDENTS

AT DONG HOA PRIMARY SCHOOL

NGHIÊN CỨU HÀNH ĐỘNG VIỆC SỬ DUNG PHIM HOAT HINH

CÓ NHẠC DŨ DẠY TIĨNG ANIT CHO HỌC SINTII TIẾU HỌC

TẠI TRƯỜNG TIỂU HỌC BONG HOA

M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS

Field: English Teaching Methodology

Code : 60 14 0111

HANOI—2014

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UNIVERSSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES,

- CB YEE) ———

vO TIN XUAN

AN ACTION RESEARCH ON USING MUSIC AND ANIMATED

CARTOONS TO TEACH ENGLISH TO PRIMARY STUDENTS

AT DONG HOA PRIMARY SCHOOL

NGHIÊN CUU HANH ĐỘNG VIỆC SỬ DỤNG PHIM HOAT HÌNH

CÓ NHẠC ĐỂ DẠY TIENG ANH CHO HOC SINH TIỂU HỌC

TẠI TRƯỜNG TIỂU HỌC ĐỒNG HÒA

M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS

Field; English Teaching Methodology

Code : 60140111

Supervisor: Prof Dr HOANG VAN VAN

HANOI— 2014

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CANDIDATE’S STATEMENT

Thereby declare that the thesis entitled: “AN ACTION RESEARCH ON USING MUSIC AND ANIMATED CARTOONS IN TEACIING EXGLISII

TO PRIMARY STUDEXTS AT DONG IIOA PRIMARY SCIIOOL” represents

any own work for the Degree of Master of Arts at University of Languages and

Anternational Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi and that it has not

becn previously submitted to this university or any other institutions in

application for admission to a degree, diploma or other qualifications

Tanoi, 2014

Vu Thi Xuan

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TL Rationale cesses ieee

2 ‘The aim of the study and research questions

3 ‘The significance of the study

4 Scope of the study

S Method of the study

6 Design of the study

PART B: DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER T: LITERATURE REVIEW

LL Introduction coccinea

1.2 Teaching English to young leamers

1.2.1 Detinition of young learners

1.2.2 Characteristics of young learners

1.2.3 Teaching English as foreign language lo young leamers

1.3 Instruetional media

1.3.1 Definition of instructional media

1.3.2 Types of instructional media

1.4, Amimated cartoons

1.4.1 Detimition of animated cartoons

1.4.2 Advantages of using animated cartoons in ELT

1433 Criteria for selecting animated cartoons for teaching

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My thanks are also extended to all the lecturers in the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, University of Languages and International Studies, VNU

for their useful lectures from which I have benefited a lot for the

accomplishment of this study

Iam greatly indebted to my students, class 3B, my school principal and amy colleagues at Dong Hoa Primary School for their participation and

assistance

1 would like to thank my mother and members of my family and my

friends who motivated me lo go ahcad for this study

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS:

BEL Linglish as a Voreign Language

Teaching Fnglish as a Foreign Language

Video compact disc

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1.4.4 Techniques for utilizing animated cartoons in classroom 14 1.4.5 Lesson plan using animated cartoons 16 1.5 Previous studiss related to TEFL to young learners 16

CHAPTER III: DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS

3.1 Ttroduetion sess HE HH0 110 1e wed

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Thirdly, the textbook Let’s Learn English appears to be inappropriate and

unattractive to young learners

When leaching yourg learners, we must [ind methods, which create fur

environment making them feel comfortable to learn English We can use chants, songs, games, poems, ot storytelling to make the environment more alive and

onlerlaining to deliver the lessons, bul using these materials is already ordinary and

common to use These techniques also seem to be very familiar to my students so

no longer catch much of their attention In order to keep students’ motivation and to

unprove Uhe quality of Leaching, T decide to choose animated cartoons to Leach

LUnglish to my primary students ‘The rationale behind choosing animated cartoons

to teach my students rather than other techniques is that animated cartoons contain

humorous characters and colorful and calchy visual prescntalions accompanied by

enjoyable sound and music Moreover, young leamers are much interested in

watching animated cartoons

2 The aim of the study and research questions

‘The main aim of this research is to investigate the employment of animated

carloons as a mediusn Lo teach English at Dong Hoa Primary School and to find out the attitudes of third-grade students towards leaning English by using animated

cartoons

To [BI the sim of the study, the fotlowiry questions are raised

is the employment of animated cartoons to teach Hnglish to the third grader students at Dong Iloa Primary School effective?

2 What are the attitudes of Dong Hoa third-grade students towards studying

English by using animated cartoons?

3 The significance of the study

Tuas hoped drat this study will benefit bolli teachers and studsnis For

teachers, this study will introduce to them a cartoon-based lesson and how to use

cartoons to teach English to young learners It will bring them a new medium and a new way al teaching Rnglish al primary schools and provide them with some

techniques of using animated cartoons to teach English to their students effectively.

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Video compact disc

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cartoons

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PART B: DEVELOPMENT

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PART A: INTRODUCTION:

1, Rationale

English plays an important role nowadays since it is used as a mean of

international communication Now, in the globalization era all nations need to

communicate with other and English will be their medium of communication English has been taught in many countries as a foreign language including Viemam where it has officially been taught from secondary school to university Ilowever,

for over len years now, it has been introduced to primary schools Especially, since

the 2020 National Moreign Language Project was implemented, it has formally been taught from the third grade at all primary schools A lot of efforts have heen made

by both primary leachers and curiculum developers to improve the quality of

teaching and learning But, it seems that the quality of instruction at primary

schools is not improved much This is due to the following problems

Firstly, many primary Fnglish toachers are not adequately trained to teach

English to such special learners with special characteristics Most English teachers

sGH follow traditional teaching methods that usually make students bored and the lessons un-enjoyable A lot of teachers still follow test-oriented teaching approach

that often concentrates on teaching Lnglish vocabulary and grammar, which does

not develop sludents’ language skills Not only the teachers’ low language

proficiency but also their inflexibility and uncreativeness in searching and applying various teaching techniques and methods into their real teaching make a big quality

gap in current English teaching and learning

Secondly, although the 2020 National Foreign Language Project was

introduced in 2008, English is still one of the optional subjects in primary schools,

which ofien demotivates sludents As Bnglish is nota compulsory school subject,

both students and their parents especially in rural and semi-rural areas underestimate it They do not consider it important to devote time to learning

Finglish Even, there are a lol of students going to school without any books or

notebooks during a semester

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