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THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE

LE THI THU HUONG

USING READING STRATEGIES IN TEACHING

READING COMPREHENSION FOR THE 11TH GRADE STUDENTS

AT TRAI CAU HIGH SCHOOL

Sử dụng các chiến lược đọc trong việc dạy kỹ năng đọc hiểu

cho học sinh lớp 11 tại trường THPT Trại Cau

M.A THESIS

(APPLICATION ORIENTATION)

Field: English Linguistics

Code: 8220201

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Pham Lan Anh

THAI NGUYEN - 2019

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STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP

I declare that this research report entitled “Using the reading strategies in teaching

reading comprehension for the 11th grade students at Trai Cau High School” has been

composed by myself, and described my own work, unless otherwise acknowledged in

the text. I confirm that this work is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of master at School or Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. This

work has not been and will not submitted for any degree at any institution of higher

education.

Author’s signature

Le Thi Thu Huong

Approved by

SUPERVISOR

Pham Lan Anh, Ph.D.

Date: May, 2019

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest thanks to my supervisor,

Ms. Pham Lan Anh, Ph.D. for the wholehearted guidance she gave me while I was doing

this research. I am truly grateful for her valuable support, inspiring suggestions, and

timely encouragement during the accomplishment of the research. Without these, the

thesis could not have been completed.

Secondly, I would also acknowledge my great gratitude to all the professors as

well as lectures at School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University for the

valuable lectures, which have contributed to lay the foundation for this thesis.

Thirdly, I take this opportunity to show my gratitude to my colleagues and Trai

Cau High School administrations help and comments. Also, my special thanks go to my

students of class 11A2 for their active taking part in research. Without help, this study

could not have been fulfilled.

I owe great debt of gratitude to be my beloved family – my parents, my husband and

my children whose support and encouragement have always been a great deal of strength

that has helped me to overcome all problems to complete this thesis.

Finally, I would like to send my special thanks to my readers for their concern,

interest and constructive comments.

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ABSTRACT

This action research study aims to solve the problem of reading comprehension

difficulty experienced by the 11th grade students at Trai Cau High School with an

intervention of using reading strategies.

Having identified the problem, a plan for implementing and giving three specific

reading strategies was set up and carried out during 6 Units with the aim to seek for the

effectiveness of using reading strategy.

First, the researcher conducted questionnaire survey of teaching and applying

reading strategies for students. The results of the questionnaire implied that students did

not have awareness of using reading strategies. Thus, the researcher implemented the

second step to find out the effectiveness of using reading strategies by students’

reflection of three strategies in 6 reading Units. The results of the students’ reflection

point out that these strategies had the dissimilar level of the difficulty, but almost

students felt interesting when applying these strategies and saw that they were useful.

At the end of the action research cycle, the researcher interviewed students to get

the deep information about the effectiveness of using reading strategies. The results of

this interview indicated students like using reading strategies to deal with reading tasks.

Moreover, although students faced the difficulties in using reading strategies, they all

saw that these strategies helped them not only to enhance reading comprehension but

also to solve reading tasks’ problem. In general, using reading strategies had positive

impact on the students’ reading comprehension. Based on the findings of the study, some

discussions and implications were made along with suggestions for further research.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.................................................................. 1

1. Rationale for the study .................................................................................. 1

2. Aims of the study .......................................................................................... 2

3. Research questions of the study.................................................................... 3

4. Scope of the study ......................................................................................... 3

5. Significance of the study............................................................................... 3

6. Methods of the study..................................................................................... 4

7. Structure of the study .................................................................................... 4

CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW .................................................... 6

1. Reading comprehension................................................................................ 6

1.1. Definitions of reading comprehension....................................................... 6

1.2. The importance of teaching reading .......................................................... 7

2. Language learning strategies......................................................................... 7

3. Reading strategies ......................................................................................... 8

3.1. Definitions of Reading Strategies.............................................................. 8

3.2. Classification of Reading Strategies........Error! Bookmark not defined.

3.3. Models of reading strategy instruction .................................................... 11

3.4. Benefits of reading strategy ..................................................................... 11

4. Review of the previous studies ................................................................... 12

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY............................................................... 14

3.1. Restatement of research questions........................................................... 14

3.2. Rationale for the use of action research................................................... 14

3.4. Action research model of the study ......................................................... 15

3.4.1. Action research process ........................................................................ 15

3.4. 2. Data collection instruments.................................................................. 18

3.5. Data analysis ............................................................................................ 19

CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION .......................................... 21

4.1. The findings from students’ reflection..................................................... 21

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4.1.1. Data from students’ reflection............................................................... 21

4.2. Specific Cases .......................................................................................... 23

4.2.1. The difficulty of reading strategy ......................................................... 23

4.3. The usefulness level of reading strategy.................................................. 26

4.4 The students’ enjoyment level of reading strategy ................................... 28

4.5. The students’ satisfaction level of reading strategy................................. 31

4.6. The findings from the interview............................................................... 33

3.4. Discussion ................................................................................................ 36

CHAPTER 5: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION............... 40

5. 1. Recapitulation ......................................................................................... 41

5.2. Implication and conclusion ...................................................................... 41

5.3. Limitation of the study and recommendations for further research. ....... 43

REFERENCES.............................................................................................. 45