VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES
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CAO THỊ THẮM
DEVELOPING SUPPLEMENTARY READING MATERIALS
TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION
FOR GRADE 10th STUDENTS AT A HIGH SCHOOL
IN BAC NINH PROVINCE
(Phát triển tài liệu đọc nhằm nâng cao kĩ năng đọc cho học sinh lớp 10
tại một trường Trung học phổ thông ở Bắc Ninh)
M.A MINOR THESIS (Type I)
Hanoi – 2019
VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES
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CAO THỊ THẮM
DEVELOPING SUPPLEMENTARY READING MATERIALS
TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION
FOR GRADE 10th STUDENTS AT A HIGH SCHOOL
IN BAC NINH PROVINCE
(Phát triển tài liệu đọc nhằm nâng cao kĩ năng đọc cho học sinh lớp 10
tại một trường Trung học phổ thông ở Bắc Ninh)
M.A MINOR THESIS (Type I)
Field: English Teaching Methodology
Code: 8140231.01
Supervisor: Vu Thi Thanh Nha, Ph.D
Hanoi – 2019
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this thesis is my own work and effort and that it has not
been submitted to any other university or institution wholly or partially.
Hanoi, September 2019
Cao Thị Thắm
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First and foremost, I would like to express my deep gratitude to my supervisor
Dr. Vu Thi Thanh Nha who gave me a lot of valuable guidance, encouragements,
criticisms and correction throughout my thesis writing.
I am indebted to 40 students at Thuan Thanh 2 High School, who provided
me with lots of useful information via the questionnaires.
My sincere thanks go to my family, my friends for their encouragement and
support that help me to complete my work.
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ABSTRACT
This thesis reports the findings of an action research study to improve
reading skill for grade 10 students at a high school in Bac Ninh province. It
attempts to find students‟ opinions of the current textbook, their difficulties in
learning reading skill in order to provide suitable supplementary reading materials
to improve students‟ reading competence. The data was collected via questionnaires
with 40 students at a high school in Bac Ninh province, diagnostic and final test
and classroom‟s observation. The findings of this study have shown that most of the
students find the reading texts in the current textbook interesting and relevant with
suitable reading tasks. However, they find it hard to improve their reading skills
because they lacked reading strategies and suitable supplementary reading
materials. The research also gave some suggestions in suitable reading materials
and reading strategies to help the students improve their reading comprehension.
Surprisingly, her students make great progress in reading skills after the
supplementation time.