MINISTRY OF CULTURE, SPORTS AND TOURISM

HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE

FACULTY OF INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

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ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: THE REALITY AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE
ENGLISH WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR
STUDENTS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE.

Instructor: MA. Tran Xuan Hao

Student: Nguyen Ngoc Lan
Student ID: 60DNA03036
Faculty: International Languages and Cultures
Class : NNA3A

Hanoi, 2022
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................. 3
HEADING ............................................................................................................. 4
1. Rationale .................................................................................................... 4
2. Research aims ............................................................................................. 4
3. Research focus ............................................................................................ 4
Research object ......................................................................................... 4
4. Scope of study ............................................................................................. 4
5. Research duties ........................................................................................... 5
6. Study method .............................................................................................. 5
7. Structure of the study ................................................................................ 5
CONTENT ............................................................................................................. 6
PART 1: THEORETICAL BASIS ...................................................................... 6
1.1 The concept of English writing skill ................................................................ 6
1.2 Characteristics of third – year non – English major students at Hanoi University of
Culture. ............................................................................................................ 7
PART 2: THE REALITY OF ENGLISH WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-YEAR
NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE. ...... 10
2.1. Survey on the reality of English writing skill of 3rd year non-English major
students at Hanoi University of Culture. ................................................................ 10
2.2. Causes of the reality of English writing skill of 3rd year non-English major
students. .................................................................................................................. 11
PART 3: SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE REALITY OF ENGLISH
WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE. .......................................................................... 15
3.1. Solutions from university. .................................................................... 15
3.2. Solutions from individuals. ................................................................... 16
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................... 20
REFERENCES ............................................................................................ 21
QUESTIONARIE, INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND RESULTS ........ 22
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to MA. Tran Xuan Hao for his
invaluable patience and feedback. I also could not have undertaken this
assignment without my teachers of Faculty of International Languages and
Cultures at Hanoi University of Culture, who generously provided knowledge
and expertise.
I am also grateful to my friends at Hanoi University of Culture for answering my
survey and my interview questions, late – night feedback and moral support.

Student

Nguyen Ngoc Lan

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 HEADING
1. Rationale
Writing English is a necessary skill that any young person needs to equip
themselves with, when English has become the most popular language of
communication today. English writing skills are even more important for
students in the learning process such as when writing essays, for scientific
research, graduation theses, or essays to apply for scholarships to study
abroad. In the future, when students have the opportunity to work in
multinational companies, organizations, and corporations, this skill is
especially important.
It is a tool that contributes to demonstrating their working capacity,
helping you easily convey your own unique plans, strategies, or ideas for
work, from which you will have many opportunities to be promoted and
hold many important positions in the company.
The above reasons have motivated me to carry out this assignment, to find
out the reality of English writing skills, and to propose solutions for the
3rd year non-English major students of Hanoi University of Culture can
improve their English writing skills.
2. Research aims
This topic aims to find out about the causes leading to the current situation
of English writing skills of 3rd-year students who are not majoring in
English. From there, offer solutions to help students improve their English
writing skills.
3. Research focus: The reality and proposed solutions to improve English
writing skills.
Research object: Third-year non-English major students
4. Scope of study: Hanoi University of Culture

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5. Research duties: Research the current situation and propose solutions to
improve the English writing skills of third-year non-English majors, Hanoi
University of Culture. Perception and assessment of the current situation
as well as students' interest in English writing skills. Find out the causes
leading to the current situation of students' English writing skills. From
there, give appropriate solutions to improve students' English writing
skills.
6. Study method:
• Data collection method
• Data analysis method
• Interpretations of results/findings method
7. Structure of the study: This essay consists of 3 parts

PART 1: THEORETICAL BASIS.

PART 2: THE REALITY OF ENGLISH WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-

YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF
CULTURE.

PART 3: SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE REALITY OF ENGLISH

WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT
HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE.

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 CONTENT
PART 1: THEORETICAL BASIS.

1.1. The concept of English writing skill

“ English writing skills include all the knowledge and abilities related to
expressing ideas through the written word ”. The ability to clearly communicate
ideas through writing is really helpful for everyone in any situation. For
example: when you write a message, plans, or strategies for a product of your
company, or you write a report, or essay, even you write an email to your boss or
your customers. You have to use your writing skill to convey your ideas clearly
and make everyone easy to understand.

There are many styles of English writing, but each style requires a unique skill
and serves a specific purpose. For example, English business writing for
business purposes, English advertisement writing for advertising purposes, and
English essay writing for research and study in English...etc. No matter what
type of writing style or specific purpose it serves, English writing skill are very
important.

English writing skill are important because they allow people to get a point
across without being physically present. For example, you can get your first
impression from future employers through the writing skills you display in your
resume, cover letter, and email communications especially when you are a
student. This skill is really helpful and brings many opportunities to you at the
university and also in the workplace.

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1.2. Characteristics of third-year non-English major students at Hanoi
University of Culture.

1.2.1. Attitude towards learning to write English.

From surveying 100 students, I obtained the following survey results about
students' attitudes towards learning to write English: 48% (48 students) find that
the importance of learning to write English and want to improve this skill, 30%
(30 students) feel confused because this skill is quite difficult, 18% (18 students)
feel scared because their English skills are still low, 4% (4 students) think all of
the above answers.

Figure 1: Survey on attitudes of third-year non-English majors at Culture University

toward learning to write English

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From the results of a survey we can see that the 3rd year students who are not
majoring in English at Hanoi University of Culture have a very focused attitude
towards English writing skills because they realize the importance of this skill
such: Firstly, they are able to convey ideas fully; Second, they can express
themself in a better way; Thirdly they can get good marks in exams and finally
they can increase their chances of getting a job. Because of the above important
reasons, they really want to be able to improve their English writing skills better.
They are also very eager to find a suitable solution for themself to improve this
skill.

However, there is also a small part of students who have an attitude like panic
because they find this skill too difficult, or they feel scared because their English
is still weak, leading to a lack of confidence when encountering exercises
required to write in English. They are afraid of further study to improve this
skill. If they do not overcome this obstacle, they may lose a lot of opportunities
in the future. For this group of students, we should find special solutions for
them to help them overcome their own obstacles.

1.2.2. Psychology when encountering written exams in English

1.2.2.1. Lack of confidence when writing English

The 3rd-year students who are not majoring in English often feel less confident
when writing English for a number of reasons: Firstly, they lack knowledge,
because there are many written exams that require them to have knowledge
about that problem from there they are able to write. Therefore many students
feel very confused when they encounter topics that they lack knowledge about.
They may not regularly read newspapers or books in English. Second, they do
not know how to clearly outline their essay, so even if they have a good idea to
write an essay, they still can not convey those ideas clearly in their writing,
leading to the sentences in the article being very messy. Therefore, they need

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someone to guide them on how to build an outline in the clearest and most
detailed way to help them have the skills to make an outline before writing, to
help their article become coherent and unified.

1.2.2.2. Thinking in Vietnamese when writing in English

One of the fastest solutions when you need to write in English but do not know
how to do it, the fastest way is to come up with an idea in Vietnamese and then
translate it into English. This way, most of the 3rd year students who do not
study English language use it in emergencies. It must be said that this way is
very fast and helps you to pass the tests or exams in class. But if we continue to
rely on this way, in the long run it will destroy students' thinking in English
when writing English. It forms for you the habit of lazy thinking, and you have
to rely on thinking in Vietnamese and then using google translate into English.
And without google translate to English it is not possible to complete articles in
English.

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PART 2: THE REALITY OF ENGLISH WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-
YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF
CULTURE.

2.1. Survey on the reality of English writing skill of 3rd year non-English
major students at Hanoi University of Culture.

Through a questionnaire survey with 100 third-year students, non - English

major students at Hanoi University of Culture, I have obtained the following
results about the current status of students' English writing skills: 15 % (15
students) rate their English writing skills as good, 27% (27 students) rate their
English writing skills as above average, 37% (37 students) rated their own
English writing skills at an average level, 12% (12 students) rated their own
English writing skills as below average level and 9% (9 students) rated their own
English writing skills as bad level.

Figure 2: Survey on the reality of English writing skills of third-year non-English

majors students at Hanoi University of Culture.

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From there, we can see the current situation of English writing skills of third-
year non-English majors students, at Hanoi University of Culture, Most of the
students' English writing skills are at medium level. Therefore, it is not too
difficult to come up with solutions to improve English writing skills, because
those solutions, no matter what the student's level, can be applied and regularly
work on improving their own English writing skills.

2.2. Causes of the reality of English writing skill of 3rd year non-English
major students.

2.2.1. Subjective causes

From the survey of 100 students, I obtained the following results: 15% (15
students) think that the subjective reason why they can not improve their English
writing skills is that they do not study methodically, 18% (18 students) think
that the subjective reason why they can not improve their English writing skills
is lack of knowledge, and 10% (10 students) think that the subjective reason that
makes they can not improve English writing skills is due to lack of vocabulary,
14% (14 students) think that the subjective reason why they can not improve
their English skills is due to poor grammar, 6% ( 6 students) think that the
subjective reason why they can not improve their English skills is that they don
not pay much attention to English writing skills, 18% (18 students) think that
the subjective reason is always thinking in Vietnamese before writing in English,
7% (7 students) think that the subjective cause is not writing often, 7% (7
students) think that the subjective cause is lack of perseverance when practicing
English writing skills. 5% (5 students) think that the subjective reason is all the
above answers.

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Figure 3: Survey on subjective causes leading to the reality of English writing skills
of third-year non-English majors at Hanoi University of Culture.

From there, it shows that the subjective reasons for students' English writing
skills are mainly: Firstly, always thinking in Vietnamese before writing in
English. Secondly, lack of knowledge.Thirdly, not studying methodically. Fourth
is poor grammar. And finally, the lack of vocabulary.

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2.2.2. Objective causes

From the survey results of 100 students, I have obtained the following results
about the objective reasons leading to the current state of students' English
writing skills: 26% (26 students) think that the school does not have a subject to
teach English writing skills to non-English majors students, 29% (29 students)
think that the objective reason is that there is no advisor specializing in editing
English writing for students, 17% (17 students) think that the objective cause is
the lack of resources related to learning to write English skills, 16% (16 students)
think that the objective reason is the lack of a forum to students can discuss and
share their experiences of learning English writing skills, 12% (12 students)
believe that the objective reasons are all the answers above.

Figure 4: Survey on objective causes leading to the current situation of English

writing skills among third-year non-English majors at Hanoi University of Culture.

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From there, we can see the objective reasons for the current status of students'
English writing skills, such as: Firstly, there is no advisor specializing in editing
English writing for students. Second, the school does not have a subject that
teaches English writing skills to non-English majors students. Third, there is a
lack of resources related to learning English writing skills. And finally, there is a
lack of forums for students to discuss and share their experiences in learning
English writing skills.

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PART 3: SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE REALITY OF ENGLISH
WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT
HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE.

3.1. Solutions from university

3.1.1. Open more classes to teach English writing skills from basic to
advanced.

Hanoi University of Culture opens a lot of English classes every new semester,
but in general, the school's English classes often learn skills in a very general
way and do not go into depth about each skill. Especially English writing skills.
Therefore, schools should focus on teaching English writing skills to students
more, because this skill is very important not only in work but also in
communicating with people in the distant working space. The school should
assign teachers of the language department to develop a specific roadmap for
learning English writing skills suitable for students of the school from basic to
advanced, to equip them with important skills. It will open up a lot of these good
opportunities for students and is a stepping stone for students to be confident
after graduation. The school also needs to add more resources related to learning
English writing skills so that students can have a reputable and quality reference
source and it will be more convenient for teachers to teach English writing skill.

3.1.2. Need a consultant to edit essays for students.

In addition to opening more English writing classes from basic to advanced, the
school also needs to arrange more lecturers from the language department who
can become essay editing advisors for students whenever there is a writing
assignment essay in English, when students need advice. The fact that the
mentors correct students' work from small essays to large essays will help
students catch basic mistakes to big mistakes, from which students form the
habit of careful writing in every word as they write it down.
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This solution will be very difficult at first because the number of language
teachers in the school is limited and the teachers also have teaching jobs in the
classroom, so the number of students who can correct their lessons is also very
limited. Therefore, when being corrected by teachers, students should study hard
and practice regularly, trying to improve your mistakes so that you can share
your learned skills with English fellow writers is worse than you.

3.2. Solutions from individuals.

3.2.1.1. Prepare knowledge.

Before writing, you need to try to gather knowledge, review old lessons, and find
all the references related to the topic you want to write about. The best way is
that you should make an outline for the article, add all the content you want to
convey in the article into that outline, and then adjust the ideas to suit the topic
of the article and start your writing. Some areas of writing are highly specialized
and require extensive knowledge in a single area, like scientific or legal writing.
Research information and knowledge about the topic you want to write about is
must-do work, it will prove your writing has high-quality content and contain
value.

3.2.1.2. Freelance writing.

Freelance writing is a solution to help you free yourself. Instead of deleting or

correcting a sentence or two in the article, you can write freely. Write down a
series of thoughts and ideas in your head, not necessarily with correct grammar,
or vocabulary, and even can be mixed in both English and Vietnamese as long as
you put all your thoughts and ideas into the article. When you write freely like
that, you do not feel pressured to get it right the first time because you can go
back and edit it.

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3.2.1.3. Use grammarly

Grammarly is a virtual writing assistant technology that is a very good tool that
even native speakers use to correct their writing. You can install grammarly on
your browser extension and create a free account so that Grammarly can check
your mistakes in the process of writing emails, writing messages or writing
online posts. Grammarly has a completely free version that helps you pick up
each mistake such as typographical errors, grammar errors, sentence errors,
punctuation, and commas very well. If you upgrade to the premieum version,
there will be more outstanding features. One of the best features of the premieum
is that it helps you choose valuable vocabulary for the specific situation in which
you are writing. In addition, the premieum also has a function to help you rewrite
sentences more clearly, omitting unnecessary words to make your sentences
clearer and more concise. Therefore, depending on the needs of each user to be
able to give themselves a version that is suitable for their own use needs.

3.2.1.4. Learn from your mistakes.

Learning from your mistakes is a very effective method of learning and it

produces admirable results. Learning from mistakes will help you progress faster
when you realize the points you need to fix and when you overcome those
shortcomings, you will raise yourself to a new level. Therefore, when you are
fortunate enough to meet someone with good English writing skills who point
out mistakes in your writing, you should actively mark and pay special attention
to those mistakes, every time you write an article. Re-read the edit many times to
understand why it is necessary to correct that mistake, write down all those
mistakes in a notebook so that when you write a new article you will open it to
see where you went wrong in the previous post. In this new post, you will learn
from your experience so that you will not make that mistake. Regularly repeating
this method, your English writing skills will improve a lot.

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3.2.1.5. Practice

To be good at any skill or field, it is indispensable to work hard. For example: To

become a good athlete, they must plan to practice and train regularly for a long
time to reach the standard they have set. Therefore, just like you want to become
a person with good English writing skills, you also need to make a plan for
yourself to practice writing English skills in a specific and regular way. Every
day spend a little time on writing English, write whatever topic you want, write
down all the ideas in your mind so that your ideas are released out, practice
regularly in that way, it will create a habit for you and when you start writing
about a certain topic or essay, you will easily understand the content of the
article you want to write without taking too much time, because your skills are
honed every day and one day you will realize you have improved a lot through
regular practice. Always remember that “Practice makes perfect”.

3.2.2. Practice thinking in English when writing in English

3.2.2.1. Read documents, research problems to be written in English

To be able to write English in the same way as native speakers, that is, when you
write, people can feel that this is the person they think in English, not someone
they think in Vietnamese and then they translate it into English to write. So how
can that level be achieved? To achieve that level is through reading a lot of
English books and documents. Try to read in English and do not look it up in a
dictionary or restrict yourself to it, look up only the most important words and
try to guess the meaning of the words. You should also try to guess why people
write with such sentence structure and you internalize people's structures, learn
how people think, and learn how people translate their thoughts into words in an
article or a book.

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3.2.2.2. Build ideas in English before writing in English.

To build ideas in English when you write in English, you have to think in
English. You have to do anything in English whenever possible. Reading
documents and books in English. Research all the things related to your topic
writing in English. You should stop translating between English and your native
language.

Before writing you have to make an outline in English, you start brainstorming a
list of everything you might want to write in your essay in English. Then you
look at the list and cross out what might be unnecessary, irrelevant, or not
appropriate. Then arrange them in a logical order.

At first, doing this activity will be very difficult, but if you persevere in applying
and practicing this method, your ideation in English will improve a lot. And it
will bring you a lot of benefits from thinking and building ideas in English.

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 CONCLUSION

With the purpose of the desire to learn about the reality and propose solutions to
improve the English writing skills of third-year non-English majors students at
Hanoi University of Culture. I conducted a survey, and after making statistics, I
found out the reality of English writing skills of third-year non-English majors at
Hanoi University of Culture, the reasons why English writing skills of students
can not be improved, but this skill is very important for any job or profession.
Since then, I have proposed several solutions and verified the effectiveness of the
solution in a number of ways.

Learning English writing skills for third-year non-English majors students at

Hanoi University of Culture will be challenging and difficult at first. This skill
requires a lot of knowledge and an investment of time. But if you have provided
yourself with this skill, any job in any industry will have many good
opportunities for you. Hopefully, my research can partly help students in
improving their English writing skills to get more opportunities and
achievements not only in the present but also in the future.

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 QUESTIONNAIRE

THE REALITY AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE

ENGLISH WRITING SKILL OF THIRD-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR
STUDENTS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE.

Section A: General Information

1. What is your gender? (Please choice one blank and tick)

 Female
 Male
2. What is your major at Hanoi university of culture in the third-year?
(Please choice one blank and tick)
 Management of travel and tourism services
 Law
 Press
 Publication business
 Information – Library
 Information management
 Museology
 Cultural study
 Media culture
 Foreign culture
 Organization and management of culture in ethnic minority areas
 Organizing and managing tourism in ethnic minority areas
 Cultural policy and arts management
 State management of the family
 Cultural heritage management
 Organize cultural events

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  Traveling culture
 Travel, tour guide
 International travel guide

Section B: Special information

3. Can you tell me about your attitude towards learning to write English?
(Please choice one blank and tick)

 Being confused, because this skill is quite difficult

 Being afraid, due to low English skill

 Realize how important it is to learn to write English and want to improve

this skill.

 Being neglect, seeing that this skill is not important for work in the
future.

4. How do you feel when you meet the English written exams? (Please
choice one blank and tick)

 Lack of confidence, due to lack of knowledge

 Confused because you do not know how to implement ideas to writes

articles

 Has an idea but being confused in how to express it.

 Always think in Vietnamese first and then write in English

 Too focused on being afraid of grammar mistakes, just writing and then

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 deleting

 Always try to use difficult and complex words, so it takes a lot of times
to complete the writing.

5. Can you rate your own English writing skill please? (Please choice one
blank and tick)

 Good

 Above average

 Medium

 Below average

 Bad

6. In your opinion, what are the subjective reasons that make English
writing skills of your school students unable to improve? (Please choice
one blank and tick)

 Do not study methodically

 Lack of knowledge

 Lack of vocabulary

 Grammar is still not good

 Do not pay attention much on English writing skill

 Always thinks in Vietnamese before writing English

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  Do not write often

 Lack of perseverance when practicing English writing skill

 All the above answers

7. In your opinion, what are the objective reasons that make English
writing skill of your school students unable to improve? (Please choice
one blank and tick)

 The school does not have a subject for teaching English writing skills for
students who are not students of the English language major

 There is no advisor specializing in editing essays for students

 Lack of resources related to learning English writing skills

 There is a lack of forums for student to dicuss and share experience when
learning English writing skill.

 All the above answers

8. In your opinion, what are your personal solutions to improve English

writing skills for students at your school? (Please choice one blank and tick)

 Prepare knowledge

 Freelance writing, write as much as possible

 Learn from your mistakes when someone corrects you

 Have a correction tool when writing online, or a spelling correction app

on phone.

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  Practice regularly

 Read documents, research problems to be written in English

 Build ideas in English when writing in English.

 All the above answers

9. In your opinion, what are the solutions from the school to help improve
English writing skill for students at our school? (Please choice one blank and
tick)

 Open more classes to teach English writing skills from basic to advanced
for students who are not majoring in English

 Need a consultant to edit essays for students

 Supplementing and updating English resources for students' English

writing skills.

 Establishing a forum for students to exchange and learn from and share
their experiences in learning English writing skills

 All the above answers

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 THE RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE TO RESEARCH THE
REALITY AND PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE ENGLISH
WRITING SKILLS OF THIRD-YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR
STUDENTS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE.

The survey was conducted with 100 third-year non-English majors students, at
Hanoi University of Culture

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INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REALITY AND PROPOSED
SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS OF THIRD-
YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF
CULTURE.

Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

• Your name
• Your major

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing skills
for yourself and also for the students at our school?

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 INTERVIEW RESULTS

Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

I am Ha Thi Kim Chi. I am the third – year student. My major is International

travel guide.

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

I think it is because my vocabulary is low. Grammar is still poor and do not

know how to arrange ideas in logical order.

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

We need to learn more vocabulary, before writing, we need to make an outline,

after making an outline, we should revise the outline to see if it is okay, need to
remove or add any ideas. After you have finished editing the outline, you can
start writing the article.

Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

My name is Tran Thi Nga. I am the third-year student. My major is International

travel guide.

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

Learning to write becomes difficult for me maybe because my English

vocabulary is limited, I rarely practice writing, so when I encounter strange
topics, I don't know where to start writing because of little content to dig into.

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

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I think in order to improve our English writing skills, we need to read and listen
to more books and newspapers in English to improve our vocabulary and
knowledge. Secondly, we need to practice writing more, practice writing on
different topics so that we can form a way to deploy content on different topics.
Gradually, we will develop a habit and will not feel surprised when you
encounter articles in English with difficult topics.

Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

I am Nguyen Thi Hai Yen. I am a third-year student in Tourism department.

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

I think it's because my English knowledge is not enough. Every time I write, I
have to write in Vietnamese and then copy the article to google translate to
translate it into English, I know it is not good, but I want to pass the exam at
school, so I have to do that.

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

I think I need to study English harder, often practice writing English without
using google translate.

Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

My name is Do Thi Thu Trang. I am a third – year student in Media Culture

Department.

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

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I have ideas every time I write articles in English, but I don't know how to
implement my ideas in the most concrete way. This leads to my sentences being
very long and do not go to the point.

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

I think we need to read books and documents in English more, every time we
read, we should learn how the authors use sentence structures so that we can
apply them to our own articles later.

Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

I am Nguyen Phuong Anh. I am the third – year student. My major is Law

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

I think it is because my English vocabulary is poor. I can not expand my ideas

completely. It’s difficult for me to write a long essay.

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

We need to learn more vocabulary through reading English books, English news,
and watching English videos to learn vocabulary in many topics. It makes your
vocabulary more varied.

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Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

I am Luu Thi Thu Hoai. I am the third – year student. My major is Press

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

I study journalism so I also have to write a lot but I think the difficulty for me is
sometimes I lack ideas, or lack knowledge about certain issues.

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

I think we need to read more, read a lot, you will learn more vocabulary, how the
author writes and conveys information in the article.

Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

I am Le Thi Thu Trang. I am the third – year student. My major is Tourism

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

I think it's because of the lack of vocabulary and my English grammar is very
poor

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

I think we need to improve my grammar knowledge and learn vocabulary

regularly.

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Question 1: Can you introduce yourself a little bit?

I am Nguyen Phuong Khanh. I am the third – year student. My major is Media

culture

Question 2: What do you think makes it difficult for you to learn to write
English?

I think due to a lack of knowledge. My major is media culture, I often have to

come up with ideas and write a lot of articles for media purposes. All written
information is required to be thoroughly researched before submission.

Question 3: Can you suggest some solutions to improve English writing

skills for yourself and also for the students at our school?

It is necessary to read and study a lot of official documents to have the

knowledge to write good articles.

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