Welcome to the research

QUANG NAM UNIVERSITY

Department of Foreign Languages
Proposal defence
TOPIC: IMPROVEMENT OF ENGLISH LISTENING SKILLS
 

Student: Truong Thi Hoa

12/2022
 
Content
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Rationale
1.2 Aims and objectives of the research
1.3 Research questions
1.4 Scope of the research
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
3. METHODOLOGY
4. PREDICTED FINDINGS
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Rationale

• English is the most used language in the world. Firstly, there are
a lot of good study materials from educational institutions, big
universities are written in English. More than half of the
websites on the Internet are also written in English, such as
newspapers. , tools, global services on the network. Learning
English well will help you learn a lot about the culture and meet
many new foreign friends and gives you the opportunity to work
with foreigners and get a good job. This is one of the biggest
benefits that shows how important it is to learn English.
1 INTRODUCTION
1.2 Aims and objectives of the research
• Aims of the research
• The purpose of the study is to find out a method for soiving the difficulties
and obstacles in learning English listening of second-year students of the
English Department of Quang Nam University.
• Objectives of the research
• To reach the aims of the research, there are three tasks need to be done
• - Investigate ways and methods that second-year English students are
using to practice listening skills.
• - Survey the teaching methods of teachers to help students improve their
listening skills.
• - Use information technology to help students practice their English
listening
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1.3 Research question
• To achieve the objectives above, the research will be done to answer three
following questions
• 1. What do second-year English students need to do to practice listening
skills?
•
• 2. How do teachers' teaching methods help students improve their
listening skills?
• 3. What benefits do students receive when using information
technology to practice listening?
1 INTRODUCTION
1.4 Scope of the research
• Scope of the research: all 2nd year English language
students at Quang Nam University.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
• Research on listening skills has been studied by
William Doverspike, Jakobi E. , Jacobsneed and
Francisco J. Vare and many others. These studies talk
about the reasons why students cannot hear and offer
methods to help students improve their listening skills.
Besides, they emphasize that listening practice in
learning English is very important because it is the
source to help you learn English faster and can help
you understand the person who is talking to you.
3. METHODOLOGY
• We use mixed methods in combination of quantitative and
qualitative appioaches to carry out the research.
• Research instrument: Questionnaire
• RQ1 What do second-year English students need to do to
practice listening skills?
• 1.What is your first semester score in listening?
• ☐ Less than 5
• ☐ 5-7
• ☐ 7-8
• ☐ Over 8
• ☐ Others………………………………………
• 2.How many points do you
want to get?
• ☐ Less than 6
• ☐ 6-7
• 4.What medium do you practice
• ☐ 7-8 listening with?
• ☐ Over 8 • ☐ Phone
• ☐ Others • ☐ Laptop
3.What is your listening plan? • ☐ Computer
• ☐ Others
☐ Practice listening every day

☐ Practice listening directly and

passively when going to sleep

☐ Others
5.How long do you usually practice listening each day?
☐ 30 minutes
☐ 1 hour
☐ 2 hours
• 7.Where do you test your
• 6.Where do you usually listening skills?
☐ Ieltsup
practice listening? ☐ Exercises on the app
• ☐ Facebook ☐ Homework
• ☐ Music ☐ Othesr
• ☐ Film
• ☐ Cartoon
RQ2. How do teachers' teaching methods help students improve their
listening skills?
• 8. What is the teacher's
advice in listening practice?
• ☐ Need patience
• ☐ Practice every day
• ☐ Others
• 9.How do you teach listening
practice to be more effective?
• ☐ Should listen every day
• ☐ Do the listening exercise for
about 15 minutes
• ☐ Passive listening when you
are free
• ☐ Others
10.How long does it take to practice listening to see
improvement?
☐ 1 month
☐ 2 months
☐ More and more • 12.Where do you practice
• 11.What topic should you listening to suit your level?
choose when you practice • ☐ Paid apps
listening?
• ☐ Search on wed
• ☐ Animals you like
• ☐ Others
• ☐ The life

• ☐ The schools
13.Where should you check your
listening results?
☐ At school
☐ Her exercises • RQ3. What benefits do students receive
☐ Scoring app when using information technology to practice
listening?
• 14.Do you use the app to learn English well,
why?
• ☐ Yes
• ☐ No
• And why?
15.What kind of information technology do you use to practice listening to English?
☐ Internet
☐ CD
☐ Quilts
☐ Others

• 16.How long do you use • 17.How did you get the results?
information technology to • ☐ Listening score increased
practice listening? • ☐ Vocabulary
• ☐ During the study process • ☐ Grammar
• ☐ A few hours a day • ☐ Others
• ☐ In free time
• ☐ Others
4. PREDICTED FINDINGS

• After this study is over, the second-year students will find for
themselves a better study method in listening to English and will
improve their test scores in learning.