proposed training module for enhancing teacher’s motivational techniques and students’ performance in basic english course in hanoi university of industry (haui) (sum)

THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines CANDIDATE: BUI THI NGAN PROPOSED TRAINING MODULE FOR ENHANCING TEACHERS’ MOTI

THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Socialist Republic of Vietnam Republic of the Philippines

CANDIDATE: BUI THI NGAN

PROPOSED TRAINING MODULE FOR ENHANCING

TEACHERS’ MOTIVATIONAL TECHNIQUES AND

STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN BASIC ENGLISH COURSE

IN HANOI UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY (HaUI)

Specialty: English language and Literature

DISSERTATION SUMARY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

AND LITERATURE

THAI NGUYEN - 2014

THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY

Scientific supervisor: Dr Maltida H Dimaano

The peer review 1: The peer review 2: The peer review 3:

The dissertation is defended to the Panel of Experts at:

Dissertation can be found at:

- National Library

- Learning Resource Center, Thai Nguyen University

- Library of International Training and Development Center

- Library of Batangas State University, Philippines

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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM INTRODUCTION

Teaching English in various places at all levels expanding

educational system in Vietnam is part of the mounting pressures

where knowledge and ability to learn and communicate in

English is a must and of importance Vietnamese students have

to pass an English language test being one of their six national

examinations for them to get the certification for Secondary

school education Undergraduates and graduates of tertiary level

are required to take English as a subject

Further, In Vietnam, Decision No 1400/QDTTg approving the

10-year National Plan for “Teaching and Learning Foreign Language in

the National Formal Educational System in the Period of 2008-2020”

was issued on Sept 30, 2008

Clearly, it is expected that by year 2020, most Vietnamese

students who will graduate from secondary, vocational schools,

colleges and universities will be able to communicate in English

language confidently in their daily conversation, in their study and

their work in an integrated, multi-cultural and multi lingual

environment as well as making foreign language a comparative

advantage of development for Vietnamese people in the course of the

country’s industrialization and modernization

Motivation in English language learning plays an important

role in both teaching and learning It is also one of the main

determinants of second or foreign language learning achievement In

teaching, there are many techniques that are found to be motivational

In motivating students, it is considered essential that teachers must show concerns in taking time to find the techniques that best fit the class to make the lesson more successful

There is a number of motivational techniques that can be used

cannot be done in one simple process In motivating students to learn, individual style and personality of the teacher if of utmost importance for it plays a significant role in the implementation of motivational techniques

Though teachers use motivational techniques in teaching, they still use the traditional methods of teaching, such as giving assignments, compiling of vocabulary tests, teaching grammar with the use of visual aids, engage students in various language activities and control their class by teaching and explaining lessons all the time It is more of teacher centered rather than students

As an administrator of Hanoi University of Industry - a leading multi-level, multi field industrial training center in Vietnam with forty thousand students, one thousand seven hundred personnel

of which one thousand four hundred are teachers and lecturers, the

theme of "Proposed a training module for enhancing teachers’

motivational techniques and students’ performance in Basic

English Course in Hanoi University of Industry” is chosen to

study The structure of dissertation includes 5 chapters

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study determined the relationship of teachers’ motivational techniques and students’ academic performance in Basic English Course and its implication to English Language teaching and learning in Hanoi University of Industry in order to come up with a proposed training module for enhancing teachers’ motivational techniques and students’ performance in Basic English Course Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:

1 What is the demographic profile of the teachers in terms of: 1.1 Age

1.2 Gender

1.3 Place of origin

1.4 Civil status

1.5 Educational qualification

1.6 Years of teaching experience?

2 What are the motivational techniques employed in teaching the Basic English course?

3 What are the levels of students’ performance in Basic English test?

4 Are there significant relationships between teachers’ motivational techniques and students’ performance in English?

5 What training module may be proposed to enhance student’s performance?

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study is believed to have profound significance to the Administrators, University Officials in Hanoi University, Faculty of

Foreign Language, other Faculty in Hanoi University, Students in Hanoi University and to the present and future researchers

Administrators/ University Officials Findings of this study

will provide basic information to the university officials on the importance of motivational techniques in teaching Basic English course Result of this study can be an opener for the administrators

to have plans of providing effective Faculty Development Training Program to improve the motivational techniques of teachers in teaching Basic English course which will lead to the improvement of the students’ performance in learning Basic English course

Faculty of Foreign Language Results of the study can be

useful to the faculty of Foreign Language since they will be informed

on the current status on the performance of students in Basic English Course This study also may help them improve the current motivational techniques used in teaching Basic English It is hoped that through this study, they can choose the best training program they have to attend to improve the skills or techniques in teaching Basic English Course

Other Faculty in Hanoi University of Industry This study

will help them understand the importance of using different motivational techniques in teaching This may encourage them to select the most appropriate motivational techniques that will improve the students’ performance

Student Researchers This study may contribute to broaden

their horizon of knowledge and may be an instrument to provide recommendations to improve the teachers’ techniques and the students’ performance as well

Future Researchers This will be of use to other researchers

who might wish to conduct a similar study Future researchers may use this study to enrich their own body of literature and substantiate their own findings

SCOPE, DELIMITATION AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The study covered the motivational techniques used by teachers in teaching Basic English Course The demographic profile

of the teachers was used consisting of information like age, gender, place of origin and civil status Included also in the profile are the teacher’s educational qualification and years of teaching experience The academic performance of the 385 first year students in Academic Year 2013-2014 and the 125 teachers currently employed at Hanoi University of Industry were covered in this study as well as the significant relationships between the teacher’s motivational techniques and students’ performance in English with training module as its output

Students who were in their Second year, Third year and Fourth year respectively were not part of the study Results of the study were

be limited only on the data which gathered from the respondents in the Academic Year 2013-2014 in Hanoi University of Industry

Chapter 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1 REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES

This chapter presents the relevant conceptual and research literature which have bearing to the present study as well as synthesis, theoretical and conceptual framework, hypothesis and definition of terms The literatures included are found substantial to the study and give the necessary background to understand the present research

as on human behavior provide insights on the discussion of students’ motivation in learning while the ideas of Beck as regards to motivation and techniques enrich the discussion in the teachers’ utilization of varied motivational techniques

On the topic student performance on the other hand, ideas of Villabos, Wiggins, Meyer and Airasian contributed much in

enriching the discussion Insights of Bandura, Lupdag, Atkinson provide support relative to the topic discussed regarding performance

of students

Further, Widdowson, Tolimson and Frank’s ideas on classroom materials, groupings of material types and training modules provide background information on designing an instructional material in a form of a module which is the output of the study

The study of Lasagabaster, Dornyei and Sakui find similarity

in the present study as they have motivation as their focus These studies differ in the present study in terms of areas concerned like Lasagabaster deals on relationship of motivation and language proficiency, Dornyei on macro strategies to enhance motivation, Sakui on teacher’s perspective and darkside of motivation The present study deals also on motivation but it differs to the above studies as it talks about the motivational techniques used by teachers

in teaching English as well as its relationship to the academic performance of students in English

Bernaus, Ud Din, Zarif and Warden studies are similar also in the present study like the above mentioned studies as the main object

of the study is on motivations though of different fields Zarif’s study

on teachers’ opinion on techniques to increase students’ motivational level and Warden’s study zero in on the existence of motivational group The present study covers motivation also but its more on patterns of the motivational techniques utilize by English teachers as well as determining the level of academic performance of students in English and its relationships to the demographic profile of teachers

The study of Henebry and Pickens find similarity to the present study as it deal with motivations and motivation techniques Their study differs to the present study as Henebry assess the motivation theories and identify techniques to increase employee motivation while Pickens’ focus on the perception regarding motivation of high school science students as well as specific motivational strategies used by the teachers to enhance motivation The present study deduced on the relationship of motivational techniques of teachers and students’ performance in Basic English course at Hanoi University of Industry with training module as output

Thus, despite of the similarities of the present study to the cited studies, the present study is not a duplication of any study and has a character of its own

2.2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The study is anchored in Stephen D Krashen theory of second language acquisition (SLA), Lyle F Bachman’s theory of communicative competence and Simon Dik’s functional grammar

OUTPUT PROCESS INPUT

Figure 1

Research Paradigm

Figure 1 presents the research paradigm of the study which serves as springboard in conducting this study The input box contains the profile of the teacher’s respondents like their age, gender, place of origin, civil status, educational qualification, years of teaching experience and professional growth Part of the input also is the patterns of motivational techniques used by teachers in teaching Basic English course and the academic performance of students in English

Proposed

Training

Module

Assessment made through:

Survey Questionnaire

Teacher- made Test

The process box involves the assessment of the profile of the respondents in relation to their motivational patterns in teaching Basic English course and the academic performance of students in English These were assessed through the use of data gathering instruments, the survey questionnaire and interviews conducted from the teachers From the assessment made, the third box of the paradigm depicts the output of the study which is the proposed training module to enhance the students’ performance in Basic English course

Chapter 3 RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURE

This chapter presents the research environment, research design, subjects of the study, data gathering instruments, data gathering procedure and the statistical treatment of data

Research Design

This study made use of descriptive method of research to

determine the relationship of teachers’ motivational techniques and students’ performance in Basic English course and its implication to English Language teaching and learning in Hanoi University of Industry

According to Best and Kahn (2007), method of research which concerns itself with the present phenomena in terms of conditions, practices beliefs, processes, relationships or trends invariably is termed as “descriptive survey study”

A descriptive-correlational method will be the most appropriate method for this study because it will attempt to determine how related two or more variables are Gay, L R (1987) This degree

of relation is expressed as a correlation coefficient as this study will determine the relationship between the teacher’s motivational techniques and student’s performance classified as high, average and

low in Basic English course

Research Environment

Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI) is one of the biggest state university in Vietnam composed of 3 campuses with 300 lecture rooms and halls and 200 well equipped laboratories and workshops

It covers an area 50 hectares

As a leading multi-level, multi field industrial training center

in Vietnam, Hanoi University of Industry has forty thousand students, one thousand seven hundred personnel of which one thousand four hundred are teachers and lecturers 75 % of the

lecturers are with post graduate qualifications Hanoi University

of Industry as a prestigious institution is also the center of research and development in Vietnam and its focus is more on science research activities

As the largest higher education training university, HaUI has six levels of training which are in demand These comprised higher education, undergraduate, professional college, professional school, diploma vocational training and vocational training To keep its pace with regional and global advancement in terms of training, technology transfer and scientific research, HaUI established linkages with foreign partners in many diverse cooperation programs and