The solutions to improve english writing skill in english k2012 at ca mau community college (CMCC

The main purpose of this report is to show the problem in writing skills. The report focuses primarily on difficult issue when the students in English k2012 at Ca Mau community college. I think to practice writing skills are good for them, they should enhance the vocabulary and grammatical structures that sentence. Because this factor is important for basic written English skill of students in future. Nowadays, the translators and the teachers are requiring English in writing skill good. You need to understand the importance. That is an important point in our work, but English writing skill is also a weak point of many students in English K2012. So, the students should have the appropriate solution and writing English skill must be trained regularly. Therefore, they also need the support of the teachers and schools.

CA MAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE

FACULTY OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

THE SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE

ENGLISH WRITING SKILL IN ENGLISH K2012

AT CA MAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE

STUDENT: TRAN AI LAM STUDENT’S CODE: CK1203A021 SUPERVISOR: Mrs HO HONG LIEN

Ca Mau, May 30th 2015

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The main purpose of this report is to show the problem in writing skills Thereport focuses primarily on difficult issue when the students in English k2012 at CaMau community college I think to practice writing skills are good for them, theyshould enhance the vocabulary and grammatical structures that sentence Becausethis factor is important for basic written English skill of students in future

Nowadays, the translators and the teachers are requiring English in writing skillgood You need to understand the importance

That is an important point in our work, but English writing skill is also a weakpoint of many students in English K2012 So, the students should have theappropriate solution and writing English skill must be trained regularly Therefore,they also need the support of the teachers and schools

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Table of Contents

Abstract i

Table of Contents ii

List of Tables iv

List of abbreviations v

Chapter one Introduction 1

1.1 Background to study 1

1.2 Statement of purpose 1

1.3 Scope of study 1

1.4 Research questions 2

1.5 Significance 2

Chapter two Literature Review 3

Chapter three Methodology 4

3.1 Overview of the questionnaires 4

3.1.1 Questionnaires construction 4

3.1.2 Participants 4

3.1.3 Purpose 4

3.1.4 Time and location 5

3.1.5 Data collection procedure 5

3.2 Interviews 5

3.2.1 Interview construction 5

3.2.2 Participants 5

3.2.3 Purpose 6

3.2.4 Interview produce 6

Chapter four Results and discussion 7

4.1 Results 7

4.1.1 Questionnaires 7

4.1.2 Interviews 8

4.1.2.1 The attitude of students 8

4.1.2.2 The quality of writing subject 8

4.1.2.3 The advantages and disadvantages 8

4.1.2.4 Solutions 9

4.2 Discussion 9

4.2.1 The quality of studying writing in English k2012 at CMCC 9

4.2.2 The attitude of students in writing 10

4.2.3 The advantages in writing 10

4.2.4 The disadvantages in writing 10

4.2.5 The solutions 10

Chapter five Conclusion 11

References 12

Appendices 13

Interview .15

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List of tables

1 Tables: Overview of studying writing skill at CMCC 8

2 Tables: Result on the score table of writing III 10

List of abbreviations

Ca Mau Community College……… CMCC

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Chapter one Introduction

1.1 Background to study

Nowadays, English has been the most popular language in the world It is theprimary language used in international communication relations The languagewhich is the most common use on international Word Wide Web is also English Inuniversities and colleges in the world, English language is used as the forcedsubject Besides, the students can have opportunities for a good job in manycountries

In Vietnam, Party and State have encouraged studying English to schools fromprimary to university levels like compulsory language

I am a student of class English K2012 The during 3 years of study I find thatstudents’ ability of writing was weak So, It is also the reason why that I chose thistopic:

1.4 Research questions

What are difficulties of students in learning writing skill?

The solutions to improve the disadvantages of writing skill?

1.5 Significance

People will see the current situation when students learn writing skills

In teaching process, teaching staff and students can seek the weak and strongpoints of students After that, they will improve their weak points and rise theirstrong ones

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Chapter two Literature Review

In this part, I am going to show some research and opinions on writing skill inthe same fields, such as:

In Elements of style, William Struck Jr said that: “A sentence should contain no

unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts”

In addition, I am concerned line of William Stunk Jr.: “This requires not that

the write make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell”.

In Writing topic sentences, Dorothy Turner also said that: “…You should be

careful to include one in most of your major paragraphs Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a paragraph, in academic essays they often appear at the beginning It might be helpful to think of a topic sentence as working in two directions simultaneously It relates the paragraph to the essay's thesis, and thereby acts as a signpost for the argument of the paper as a whole, but it also defines the scope of the paragraph itself”.

In writing skill, grammar is an important form, if you are bad at grammar, youcan not write well and maybe wrong It also is concerned

In addition, students should develop their writing as well as grammar skill in thestudying activities The quality of lessons can be increased if students and teacherscan improve their writing in the teaching process as well as studying process

In short, I see 3 main problems which can affect our writing, include: grammar,vocabulary and materials And, sometimes we should notice our practice writing

Chapter three Methodologies

In this chapter, I am going to tell you about my research My research consists of

2 parts such as: questionnaires and interview

3.1 Overview of questionnaires

3.1.1 Questionnaire construction

The questionnaires are turned around on the teaching methods, learning attitude

of students, the size of class… at CMCC The questions consist of 11 questions

From question 1 to question 7, the requirement is choosing a, b, c The content isfocused on learning writing skills in English at CMCC

The advantages, disadvantages while students studied in writing skill in question

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3.1.4 Time and location

Time: on 23rd of April to 28th April 2015

The location: in English K2012 at CMCC

3.1.5 Data collection procedure

Data collected by questionnaires for students After that, they will besynthesized and use data collected in study

First, the questionnaires were sent to 20/57 students in English K2012 at CMCC

on 23rd to 25th April 2015

On 26th to 28th April 2015, I received the answer from 20 the students

All of the data will research into Microsoft Word 2007 to analyze the data

3.2 Interviews

3.2.1 Interview construction

The interview focuses on the students and the enthusiasm of the teaching staff.Equipment and the size of class are contributed in this interview The content of thisinterview was turned around of 4 questions

3.2.2 Participants

The interview is sent to two English teachers who are teaching English K2012 atCMCC

Chapter four Results and Discussion4.1 Results

Table 1: Overview of studying writing skill at CMCC

In question 8, most of the students answered about advantages in their studyingwriting process, they are:

- Many sources of materials are on TV, internet, books…

- Teacher’s attitude is good and thoughtful that is effective to the quality ofstudents

Besides, in question 9, they also gave some disadvantages that met in duringtheir studying, such as:

- Students did not attend to their class, they are less and lazy practicing writing,reading books or materials on internet and others sources… they are noisy in class-They are very worried about asking their teachers or friend when they met someproblems in this subject

They also responded question 10 They gave some solutions to improve or solvethe disadvantages that they met:

- First, they always practice writing and must understand to use grammarstructures correctly

- Then, students should learn vocabulary more often

- Finally, they must be in class and ask teachers or friends about their problems

to find solutions for solving them

4.1.2 Interviews

4.1.2.1 The attitude of students

Toward Mr chuong, he answered that the students don’t have good attitudesabout studying writing Mrs Lien had no ideas

4.1.2.2 The quality of writing subject

According to Mrs Lien, the quality is so Because most of them must focus onbooks or materials that they are studying in class, they are too lazy to search othersmaterial

However, Mr Chuong gave that is not good He also gave some details aboutthis as: not often practice, not enough vocabulary, grammar and not hard working

4.1.2.3 The advantages and disadvantages

Most of teachers showed some points about advantages and disadvantages thatare a lot of materials in books, on the internet, on TV Next, the students also helpabout teacher’s helpful guide The disadvantages are lacking of experiences inwriting, not practicing often, lacking of basis skills, for example: how to usevocabulary, grammar…

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4.1.2.4 Solutions

To solve these disadvantages, they also get their recommend about solutions.First, the students must try themselves Second, the best is practicing more often.Finally, they must read a lot (not only in books, at school but also in real life)

4.2 Discussion

In this part, I will get my opinions in the following lines:

4.2.1 The quality of studying writing in English K2012 at CMCC

Most of the students in English K2012 can not write well They did not usegrammar and sentence structures correctly, so the quality is also affected

In my investigation, they answered that the quality was bad Therefore, they cannot overcome their tests

Next, all the teachers responded that the quality of studying writing is so bad

The following table will present the quality of students in studying writing III ofEnglish K2012:

Good Advance Middle BadStudents(%) 5 (8,8%) 14 (24,5%) 28 (49,1%) 10 (17,6%)

Table 2: Result on the score table of writing III

Over the table above, we can see that the marks of students in English K2012 atCMCC in writing skill were not good So, the quality was affected

4.2.2 The attitude of students in writing

The teachers said that the students don’t have good attitudes in studying writing

It is important that also can affect to the students’ quality in this skill

4.2.3 The advantages in writing

In studying writing skill, the students always receive the support from theirEnglish teachers such as Mr Chuong, Mr Nguyen, Mrs Lien They are veryenthusiasm They help their students overcome the problems In addition, thematerials are popular on TV, on the internet,… So, the students can research easily.Finally, the facilities are good

4.2.4 The disadvantages in writing

The students also met many problems in studying process themselves They are:the students are lacking experiences in writing, not practicing often, and thestudents are lacking basis skills such as: how to use grammar, sentences structures,besides, they can not read or refer materials

4.2.5 The solutions

I want to repeat the solutions that I got in the parts above Firstly, each studentmust try themselves In addition, the students should practice writing more usuallywhenever they can Finally, maybe, the students should read books or materials, notonly in books, at schools but also in real life

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Chapter five Conclusion

In my studying process in English K2012 at CMCC I saw that the students’writing ability had many disadvantages such as: less vocabulary knowledge,grammar structures,…The main reasons that the students’ attitude had not beenserious, class size has not been stable, the students’ self-studying has not been good,they were worried about studying, the teaching staff lacked… Although thestudents were helped by native teaching staff, they did not study well

Therefore, I got many solutions to help the students can study and writing’sability will be good The solutions were presented in discussion part of chapter 4above

The students want to have the ability in writing well that is easy But, theimportance that the students should practice more usually Our writing skill is good;

we can find a good job in future In addition, it is also important for students as well

as a translator

[4] Dorothy Turner Writing topic sentences.

[5] Elbow, Peter Writing With Power

[6] Giltrow, Janet Academic Writing: How to Read and Write Scholarly Prose [7] Klauser, Henriette Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough

Techniques for People Who Write

[8] Tensen, Bonnie L Research Strategies for a Digital Age.

[9] VanderMey, Randall et al The College Reader.

[10] William Strunk Jr Elements of style

[11] Zinsser, William On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction.

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-I Questionnaires: 1 How do you think about the quality of students in studying writing at CMCC? a Good b Normal c Bad 2 Please tell me the students’ attitude in studying writing skill? a Good b Normal c Bad 3 According to you, the class size can affect to the quality in studying this subject? a Yes b No (can you get some reasons why or your ideas?)………

4 Are the materials in studying writing skill good? a Yes b No c Other ideas

(……… )

5 What are difficulties of students when learn writing skill ? a Vocabulary b structure grammar c both a and b 6 How many time you learn write everyday? a one-haft hours b one hours c two hours 7 What do you like learning writing skill? a Like b Normal c Dislike 8 Can you tell me some advantages in studying writing?

9 You can give any disadvantages that you met in during your studying?

10 Tell me any solutions to improve or solve the disadvantages that you met?

11 You are pleased to give personal information: Name:

Class:

Gender:

Cell phone:

Add:

Email:

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1 According to you, how is the quality of students in studying writing? Why?

2 What do you think about the attitude of students when they are studying writing skill in write III?

3 What advantages and disadvantages have students met in this subject in write III?

4 Can you give some solutions to solve those disadvantages in write III?

Thanks a lot!