The benefits and limitations of a genre - based approach to teaching writing to grade 10 students in Tan Trao high schoool, Tuyen Quang province

The benefits and limitations of a genre - based approach to teaching writing to grade 10 students in Tan Trao high schoool, Tuyen Quang province Những lợi ích và hạn chế của đường hướng

The benefits and limitations of a genre - based approach to teaching writing to grade 10 students in Tan Trao high schoool,

Tuyen Quang province Những lợi ích và hạn chế của đường hướng dựa vào thể loại đối với việc dạy viết cho học

sinh lớp 10 trường THPT Tân trào,

Tuyên Quang Bùi Thị Thu Huyền

University of Languages and International Studies M.A Thesis English Teaching Methodology; Mã số: 60 14 10

Supervisor : M.Ed Khoa Anh Việt

Năm bảo vệ: 2012

Abstract There are two main purposes of the study One main purpose was to

investigate how the benefits and limitations of using a genre-based approach to teaching writing for grade 10 students are The second main purpose was to explore their attitudes towards learning to write with this approach The genre chosen for this study is narrative text A pre-test-posttest group research design was used The sample population was from two classes of the grade 10 students at Tan Trao High school There were totally 90 students involved in this study (30 male and 60 female) The experimental group was taught using a genre-based approach for 5 weeks following four stages: Building knowledge of the field, modeling of the text, Join Construction

of the Text, Independent construction of the Text The control group was taught in the traditional method of the teacher-centered approach This study collected data from two writing tests, motivational questionnaires, and observation The statistical tools of the Independent sample Test were used to determine whether there were significant inter-group differences The results of the study showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group significantly The major findings of this study suggested that the genre-based approach helped significantly to enhance the students’ writing skills and their motivation towards learning writing Based up the conclusions drawn from the study, the genre-based approach was thus recommended to be integrated into teaching writing for the students at Tan Trao High School in Tuyen Quang province Finally, suggestions for further research were recommended

Keywords Tiếng Anh; Kỹ năng viết; Lớp 10; Phương pháp giảng dạy

Content

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 Rationale

1

DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 1.LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1 Theoretical Backgrounds of Writing

3

3

1.1.1 Definitions 3-4 1.1.2 Role of writing skill in Foreign Language Learning 4-5

1.2 Theoretical Backgrounds of Genre-Based Approach (G.B.A) 6 1.2.1 Why choose a genre based approach to teaching writing ? 6-7

1.3 Theoretical backgrounds of narrative text 17-18

CHAPTER 2.THE STUDY

2.1 The setting of the study

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2.1.1 The context 21

2.4.1 Data Analysis of Pre -and - Post Tests 26 2.4.1.1 The two groups’ writing performance before the experiment 26-27

2.4.1.2 The two groups’ writing performance after the experiment 27-28

2.4.1.3 The experimental groups’ improvement in writing proficiency 29-30

2.4.2.1 Students’ attitude to writing before and after the experiment 30-31-32-33

2.4.2.2 Students’ participation before and after the program 33-34-35

CHAPTER 3.DICUSSION THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS 35

3.1.1 Benefits of G.B.A on students’ writing proficiency 35-36-37

1.The benefits and limitations of the genre-based approach in teaching

writing to my own students

39-40

Appendix 3:Post-questionnaire IX, X

XIV,XV

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1.Tài liệu Nghiên cứu ứng dụng sư phạm ứng dụng-Dự án Việt-Bỉ

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