VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES
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NGUYỄN THỊ VÂN ANH
APPLICATION OF GENRE-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING
WRITING TO 10TH FORM STUDENTS: ACTION RESEARCH
AT SƠN DƢƠNG HIGH SCHOOL, TUYÊN QUANG PROVINCE
Nghiên cứu hành động về áp dụng phƣơng pháp dạy viết
dựa vào thể loại cho học sinh lớp 10, trƣờng THPT Sơn Dƣơng,
Tỉnh Tuyên Quang
M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS
FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY
CODE: 60140111
Hanoi, 2014
VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES
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NGUYỄN THỊ VÂN ANH
APPLICATION OF GENRE-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING
WRITING TO 10TH FORM STUDENTS: ACTION RESEARCH
AT SƠN DƢƠNG HIGH SCHOOL, TUYÊN QUANG PROVINCE
Nghiên cứu hành động về áp dụng phƣơng pháp dạy viết
dựa vào thể loại cho học sinh lớp 10, trƣờng THPT Sơn Dƣơng,
Tỉnh Tuyên Quang
M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS
FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY
CODE: 60140111
SUPERVISOR: Assoc. Prof., Dr. LÊ HÙNG TIẾN
Hanoi, 2014
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DECLARATION
I certify that this thesis entitled: Application of genre-based approach in teaching
writing to 10th form students: action research at Sơn Dương High School”, which is
submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, is the
result of my own work. I have provided fully documented references to the work of others.
The material in this thesis has not been submitted for any other formal course of study.
Signature
Nguyễn Thị Vân Anh
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Assoc.
Prof., Dr. Le Hung Tien for his crucial advice, critical comments, invaluable suggestion
and also his devoted lessons.
I would also like to express my sincere thanks to all the lecturers of the Post
Graduate Faculty of University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National
University, Hanoi for their scholarly knowledge and amazing lectures that have helped to
increase my interest for English Methodology and my teaching job.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the library staff for being so helpful
and supportive.
Especially, I wish to express my appreciation to my students of Group 10A1 at Sơn
Dương High School, who have been really helpful and cooperative in the implementation
of the study.
Finally, I would like to thank my family and my friends for their emotional support,
without which doing the thesis would have been a much more difficult experience for me.
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ABSTRACT
When teaching writing skill to 10th form students at Sơn Dương High School, the
author of this research found that most of the students did not seem interested in writing
lessons and their writing performance was unacceptable. In an attempt to solve the problems
of students‟ poor writing performance, a hypothetical solution the use of genre-based
approach to teaching writing was tested in this study through a small-scale action
research project.
This research focuses on improving students‟ writing skill by applying genre-based
approach to teach writing to the 10th form students at Sơn Dương High School. In order to
achieve the aim, Action Research was employed to measure the influence of genre-based
approach on the students‟ writing performance. The action research was conducted with
five main steps: Problem identification, Preliminary investigation, Hypothesis, Intervention
and Evaluation. The data was collected via a number of instruments including a
preliminary questionnaire, a post questionnaire, a pre-test and a post-test. After a
preliminary investigation had been carried out, writing course applied genre-based
approach was designed, and then implemented in the second semester of the school year
2013 - 2014 with the participation of 38 students from Group 10A1 at Sơn Dương High
School.
The findings from the tests and the questionnaires revealed that students did make
progress in their writing, and students‟ opinions were positive about the treatment.