RESEARCH

PROPO
SAL
1. Hoàng Thị Xuân Mai
World’s
TEAM 3
teacher day

2. Mai Thị Kim Ngân

3. Nguyễn Thị Hương
proposed
project
An investigation on
ESP reading comprehension
encountered by 2nd English–
majored students
at Hanoi University of Education
 01 02
INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE
REVIEW

03 04
METHOD AND
DISCUSSION
PROCEDURE
O1.
INTRODUCTIO
N
Why are you attempting to do this?

ESP- English for specific purposes- is an

effective tool, necessary to access the
common knowledge store of mankind.

Although its importance and practical significance and

the efforts of both teachers and students, most of them
have not met the requirements of the subject for the
reading skills
AIMS OF THE STUDY

Propose the difficulty of students in

reading comprehend on ESP

When identifying the problem,

identifying where students are
difficult, they can find it, out real
solutions.
 RESEARCH
QUESTION

What are the difficulties in reading

comprehension for ESP encountered
by English-majored 2nd students at
Hanoi national University of
Education?
 What are you setting out to do?

Conduct a research survey Conducted randomly

proposal to propose research: with 100 students in
a study to explore questionnaire, the second year of
systematically the interview HNUE
difficulties when
they read the ESP
2. LITERATURE
REVIEW
 READING AND READING
COMPREHENSION

 ESP AND READING ESP

 PREVIOUS RESEARCHES
  READING AND READING COMPREHENSION

Reading is an Reading comprehension is the

activity to process of getting the meaning of
understand the the content and all
content of the text information about the topic in the
“Reading is about text
understanding Readers need use background
written texts and of knowledge, vocabulary,
comprehension is the process grammatical
of making sense of words, knowledge, and other
sentences and connected strategies to help them to
text” understand a written text
 ESP AND READING ESP
WHAT IS
ESP?

Refers to the teaching and

learning of English for
particular learners and
purposes

Learners of ESP courses are required to be

good at a specific field of knowledge and
language.
 WHAT IS ESP AND READING ESP
READING
ESP?
ESP learners who struggle to comprehend
the content have limited knowledge of
language must (e.g., Ho, 2016; Pulido,
2004

Those who cannot tackle ESP content in

depth cannot recall information learned or
locate information explicitly stated in a text
(Abdulghani, 1993).
 Recent studies (e.g., Ali, 2012;
Mehdi
& Mansoor, 2013; Rosyidah;
2013) have
recognized different obstacles of
PREVIOUS ESP
RESEARCHES reading comprehension
Rosyidah (2013)
conducted a study determining the
students’
diffculties in reading comprehension
in ESP
and their efforts to solve those
 Rosyidah (2013)
the students’
diffculties in reading comprehension
in ESP
and their efforts to solve those
PREVIOUS diffculties
75 students Results
at University of Muhammadiyah
RESEARCHES
Malang
Language and metalinguistic,
phonological processing,
word recognition problems,
text-processing problems
and otherdifculties such as lecturers, teaching methods or uninteresting
instructions
 A study on second-year students’
difficulties in reading ESP
materials at automobile
technology department
In Vietnam - Korea technical college

PREVIOUS HA THI THANH- 2011

RESEARCHES
3. METHOD
AND
PROCEDURE
 01 Research participants
Instrument 02 03 Procedure

Data analysis 04
 PARTICIPANTS
STUDENT
S 100 randomly English-
majored 2nd students at
HNUE

Start the Be surprised with

ESP course in many specialized
the second courses
year
 PARTICIPANTS

Rich experience in
teaching English

Have background LECTURER

knowledge about ESP S

Three lecturers of the FOE

DATA COLLECTION
INSTRUMENT

QUESTIONN
AIRE

INTERVIEW
 STUDENT
Gender, address, S A written questionnaire was delivered
the year numbers of learning English,
the average mark of “Reading- Writing”
Section 1 to the participating students
time spent on learning ESP at home

Gain the student’s difficulties Section 2

in ESP reading comprehension

LECTURERS
 *What province are you from?
…………………………………
Section * How long have you been learning
1 English? .................
* What is your average mark of Reading-Writing
Subject in the first year?
□ Under 5 □5-6.5
□ 6.5-8 □ >8
*How much time do you spend on learning ESP at
home?
□ 15m □1h
□30m □ More
Section 2

VOCABULARY 6 items

GRAMMAR 4 items

BACKGROUND 4 items
KNOWLEDGE
OTHERS( TIMING, 17 items
MATERIALS, MOTIVATION)
 Question 1: Difficulties in the ESP vocabulary

Never (1) Sometimes (2) Often (3) Always(4)

  1 2 3 4
1. I find it difficult to understand the meaning of ESP □ □ □ □
terminology in the texts
2. There are some words that I’ve never seen or □ □ □ □
heard.
3. My vocabulary is too limited to understand the □ □ □ □
texts
4. I find it difficult to guess the meaning of unfamiliar □ □ □ □
words or phrases.
5. The usage/ meaning of familiar words in ESP is □ □ □ □
really different from what I have learnt.
6. Others (Please indicate here)        
Question 2: Difficulties in Grammar

7. The sentences are too long. □ □ □ □

8. Complex grammatical structures □ □ □ □
interfered with my reading
comprehension.
9. I find it difficult to determine the □ □ □ □
pronouns/objects in sentences.
10. Others (Please indicate here)        
………………………………….
Question 3: Difficulties related to Lack of Background Knowledge

  1 2 3 4
11. I find it difficult to understand reading □ □ □ □
texts when the topic is unfamiliar.
12. I do not have enough professional □ □ □ □
knowledge about the topics.
13. My limited background knowledge of the □ □ □ □
topics makes me misunderstanding the
content of the reading texts.
14. Others (Please indicate here)        
………………………………….
……………….................
Question 4:  Others difficulties (motivation, timing, material) 1 2 3 4
MOTIVATION
15. I stop reading when I do not understand the texts. □ □ □ □
16. I find it difficult to find out the excitement on ESP lessons. □ □ □ □
17. I cannot understand the teachers’ instructions on ESP lessons. □ □ □ □
18. Teachers do not give me interesting attitude to encourage my reading. □ □ □ □
19. I feel bored and disappointed because of not understanding the reading texts. □ □ □ □
20. I do not find the ESP useful to me. □ □ □ □
21. I do not want to reread and find the exact meaning of texts when it becomes □ □ □ □
difficult.
22. Others (Please indicate here)        
…………………………………...........................................
TIMING
23. I do not spend much time on reading ESP. □ □ □ □
24. My reading speed is slow. □ □ □ □
25. I focus too much on unknown word, look up it in the dictionary when reading □ □ □ □
ESP texts.
26. Others (Please indicate here) □ □ □ □
…………………………………...........................................
MATERIALS
27. I find it hard to find reliable resources of ESP documents. □ □ □ □
28. The illustrations of a text are strange to understand. □ □ □ □
 STUDENT
Gender, address, S A written questionnaire was delivered
the year numbers of learning English,
the average mark of “Reading- Writing”
Section 1 to the participating students
time spent on learning ESP at home

Gain the student’s difficulties Section 2

in ESP reading comprehension

Three lecturers were invited to join

LECTURERS in a 30 minutes interview
conducted individually in
Vietnamese.
Answering questions from the
researcher
 INTERVIEW

1. . Do you think your students comprehend

most of the specialized knowledge?
2. What problems$35 do you think students$60

encounter when
You can they
explain read comprehension
your ESP?
You can explain your
3. In yourproduct
opinion, what are theproduct
or your
service
most common
or your
service
difficulties in reading comprehension for ESP
Characteristic Characteristic
encountered by English-majored
Characteristic students?
Characteristic
4. Do you have any advice/suggestions for
students on Basic
improving reading ESPPro skills?
PROCEDUR
E

 The questionnaire
was administered
throughout class
time
 30 minutes to
complete
 20 minutes interview
conducted individually in
Vietnamese.
 Recorded for later
 Descriptive statistics in
the form of tables and
figures

Data Analysis Interview data were

transcribed verbatim
and translated from
Vietnamese to English.
4.
DISCUSSION
Why do you think that the study
is appropriate to undertake this
research at HNUE when you are
a 2nd year student?

our score

it greatly affects the

professional knowledge of
us
What problems might you encounter
in conducting this research study
and how might you go about
overcoming them?
encountered a lot of difficulties in literature
review

reading of documents
 What contribution do you
If this research is successfully think that your research
conducted, it will not only tell might make?
students what problems they
are facing but also help
students and teachers find
ways to improve it.
Thanks!
Does anyone have any questions?