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Authors: Tran, Quoc Thao; Duong, My Tham; Huynh, Thi Thien Ngan (2019) - Technology plays a crucial role in the self-guided learning of a second language in general and English in particular. Nevertheless, many students in different contexts still ignore the application of technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) tools in enhancing their foreign language proficiency. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate the attitudes towards the use of TELL tools in English-language learning (ELL) among English majors at one university in Vietnam. To collect data, 197 English majors participated in finishing the questionnaire, and 20 students were invited to join the interviews. The findings are that the majority of students have positive attitudes towards...
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Authors: Tran, Quoc Thao; Duong, My Tham (2018) - This study aimed at exploring difficulties of ESP (English for specific purposes) reading
comprehension faced by English-majored students at one university in Vietnam. Eighty English-majored students were involved in answering a close-ended questionnaire, and three ESP teachers were invited to participate in semi-structured interview. The findings showed that students did not have much trouble in dealing with reading ESP texts; nonetheless, it was sometimes seen that two common areas of difficulties in ESP reading comprehension students were faced with were unknown words and background knowledge of subject matters. This study further revealed that students did not confront much with...
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Authors: Duong, My Tham; Tran, Thi Hoang Trang; Tran, Quoc Thao (2019) - It is undeniable that listening comprehension is a fundamental skill in the process of acquiring a language and plays a crucial part in communication although it is not an easy task which requires both background knowledge and linguistic understanding. Therefore, language learners are supposed to employ listening learning strategies to facilitate the process of decoding oral input. This study aimed at examining if the eleventh graders at Duong Van Duong high school used English listening learning strategies and then exploring the frequency of the students’ use of these strategies. The present study is a
mixed-methods research project in which both qualitative and quantitative data we...
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Authors: Tran, Quoc Thao; Nguyen, Hoang Chau Long (2021) - Reading plays a vital role in improving second/foreign language learning as it can encourage the development of autonomous learners. Furthermore, ESL/EFL learners’ use of reading strategies can be affected by their learning motivation, which can result in the high or low frequent use of reading strategies in reading comprehension. The present study, therefore, investigated the motivation in English language learning and the use of reading strategies among English-majored freshmen at a university in Bac Lieu province, Vietnam. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 180 English-majored freshmen, six of whom took part in semistructured interviews. The results showed that participa...
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Authors: Tran, Phan Ngoc Tu; Tran, Quoc Thao (2020) - Course books play an integral part in the process of teaching and learning in general and that of English language teaching and learning. Additionally, it is vital to choose appropriate course books for students to develop their communicative skills. In the context of Vietnam, the new English textbooks for high school students have been designed in an attempt to enhance the communication competence among Vietnamese high school students. Within such a context, this study aims at exploring EFL teachers and students’ perspectives on communicative skills represented in the new English textbook grade 10. This study involved 42 students in answering a questionnaire and 5 teachers in respond...
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Authors: Tran, Quoc Thao (2017) - This descriptive and qualitative study, part of a big project, endeavored to explore the syntactic features of the English discourse marker only and its Vietnamese translational equivalents. It involved the development of a bilingual corpus, which consisted of 168 English and 168 Vietnamese instances of sentences containing only. The interpretive contrastive analysis was employed. The findings reveal that only in English often comes in three positions, namely, initial, medial, final, whereas their Vietnamese equivalent usually appears in initial and medial positions. Additionally, there are more similarities than differences in terms of syntactic functions of only used in English and ...
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Authors: Phan, Gia Thinh,; Tran, Quoc Thao (2020) - Accurate pronunciation has a vital role in English language learning as it can help learners to avoid misunderstanding in communication. However, EFL learners in many contexts, especially at the University of Phan Thiet, still encounter many difficulties in pronouncing English correctly. Therefore, this study endeavors to explore Englishmajored students’ perceptions towards the role of pronunciation in English language learning and examine their pronunciation practicing strategies (PPS). It involved 155 English-majored students at the University of Phan Thiet who answered closed-ended questionnaires and 18 English-majored students who participated in semi-structured interviews. The fi...
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Authors: Tran, Quoc Thao; Nguyen, Chau Hoang Long (2021-10) - Metadiscourse (MD) markers are of great importance in expressing the writers’ stance, and the use of MD markers can be diverse in different genres of writing. This study endeavors to scrutinize the use of MD markers (major groups: interactive markers and interactional markers) in research proposals by Vietnamese postgraduate students in English Applied Linguistics (EAL). A cohort of 20 EAL research proposals was analyzed using AntConc software and descriptive statistics. The results unravel that regarding interactive markers, transition markers are the most used in EAL research proposals while endophoric markers are the least commonly used. Concerning interactional markers, selfmentio...
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Authors: Tran, Phan Ngoc Tu; Tran, Quoc Thao (2019) - Phrasal verbs are highly common in and typical of the English language. However,
ESL/EFL students in different contexts seem to avoid using them in their academic writing,
especially in English applied linguistics. This study aims at investigating the use of phrasal verbs
in the research proposals among Vietnamese M.A. students who were studying at one university
in Vietnam. Nineteen research proposals chosen in this study cover 5 major themes, including
TESOL Methodology, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation. The data
were analyzed by the software AntConc version 3.7.8. The fndings of the study indicated that
the participants had a tendency to avoid usi...
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Authors: Tran, Quoc Thao; Nguyen, Chau Hoang Long (2020) - Self-regulation of learning plays a vital role in improving second/foreign language
learning as it can encourage the development of autonomous learners. It is seen that, nevertheless,
ESL/EFL learners in different contexts are not fully aware of the importance of self-regulated
language learning (SRLL) strategies in their English language learning. The present study,
therefore, aims at investigating the use of SRLL strategies by English-majored students at a
university in Bac Lieu province, Vietnam. This study involved 100 English-majored freshmen in
answering a closed-ended questionnaire. The results showed that students sometimes used SRLL
strategies, and they used SRLL strat...
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Authors: Tran, Quoc Thao; Nguyen, Chau Hoang Long (2020) - Self-regulation of learning plays a vital role in improving second/foreign language learning as it can encourage the development of autonomous learners. However, ESL/EFL learners in different contexts are not fully aware of the importance of self-regulated language learning (SRLL) strategies in their English language learning. This study, therefore, aims at investigating the use of SRLL strategies by a group of English-majored students at a university in Bac Lieu province, Vietnam. The study involved 100 English-majored freshmen in answering a closed- ended questionnaire. The results show that the students sometimes used SRLL strategies for keeping and monitoring records and seeking s...
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