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ABSTRACT
Title : English language macro-skills of freshman
Vietnamese students in selected colleges in
Bacgiang city: input to intervention measures.
Author : Ngô Thị Thu Hương (Autumn)
Course : Doctor of Philosophy major in English language and Literature.
Year : 2014
Adviser : Dr. Matilda H. Dimaano.

Summary:
The main focus of the study was to assess the Freshman
Vietnamese students’ English Language Macro Skills among selected
Colleges in Bacgiang City. This study sought to find out the learning
contents of a general English course offered to Freshman students, the
level of students’ performance in the macro-skills of reading, writing,
speaking and listening, the relationships between pairs of macro- skills
in English language, the difficulties students have in the macro-skills,




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the difficulties appear to be more relatively serious and the intervention
measures proposed to enhance macro- skills of students
The study made used of the descriptive method of research to
determine the English language macro-skills of Freshman Vietnamese
students among selected colleges in Bacgiang. There were 299
students from three colleges of Bacgiang and 30 teachers who were the
respondents of the study.
Findings of the study revealed that General English courses cover
skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing as well as essential
vocabulary, idioms and colloquial language. They are designed to give
students confidence to communicate effectively in real life and provide
them with effective training in English for work, study and travel.
In Bac Giang Colleges, the course General English I required
students to attend and participate in all class activities and do
homework and this is given ten percent weight. Students are also
required to take progress test in grammar, vocabulary, reading and
writing and assigned also ten percent of weight and a midterm test in
the same area with twenty percent allocated weight for each.




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The dissertation also assessed about the level of students’ performance
in the macro-skills in reading, writing listening and speaking the English
language were all of average level of the given student population. The
dissertation also showed that there were significant differences existed
in the students’ performance among the macro-skills in English
language and were therefore not related to each other. Most students
encountered difficulties in comprehension for macro skills in reading
and listening; sharpening writing skill for macro kill in writing; and
pronunciation for the macro skill in speaking. The difficulties in macro-
skills are those that pertain to comprehension skills both in Reading and
Listening. Finally, The dissertation proposed the intervention measures
composed of select strategies designed to improve skills where
students demonstrated poor performance.









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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The researcher wishes to express her personal thanks and
appreciation to those who, in one way or another, have helped make
this dissertation.
First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to
Thai Nguyen University - Viet Nam and Batangas State University –
Philippines who have made very favorable condition and opportunity for
the development of the dissertation.
I am indebted to ITC, Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and
Forestry of Thai Nguyen University for accepting me as a PhD. Student and
for your guidance and supports during the course.
I wish to recognize with great gratitude valuable advice, and
general assistance provided by Dr. Matilda H. Dimaano, for her patient
guidance, helpful suggestions, encouragement and constructive
supervision in writing of this research. Her enlightening suggestions and
detailed comments have shaped this dissertation largely. Without her
help, this field study report would have been impossible.




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I owe my gratitude to Dr. Corazon Cabrera and The Panels for
their highly intellectual abilities to give excellent advises and detailed
review during the preparation of this study.
I greatly appreciate the financial assistance and spiritual supports
of Bacgiang Ngo Gia Tu College , of Foreign Language Department, of
my dear colleague for me and my family during my PhD. study.
I would like to give expressions to my gratitude to all the teachers of
the Graduate School of Batangas State University of the Philippines and
teachers of English Department from three Colleges in Bacgiang province
for their valuable lectures that inspire me to carry out the research.
I take this opportunity to express my thankfulness the first year
students from three Bacgiang Colleges for their cooperation in
completing the questionnaires.
My classmates, thank you very much for making the atmosphere
of our class as friendly as possible.
I am also very grateful for the wholehearted support and love that
my husband and children, along with her parents, brothers extended
during the writing process. They supported her high and low points that
accompanied the realization of this study.
I can just say thank you all for everything.




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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
TITLE PAGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I
TABLE OF CONTENTS .ii
LIST OF TABLES .v
LIST OF FIGURES .vi
CHAPTER
I.THE PROBLEM
Introduction 1
Statement of the Problem 11
Scope, Delimitation and Limitation 14
Significance of the Study .15
II. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Conceptual literature 17
Research Literature 77
Synthesis .83
Theoretical Framework 88
Conceptual Framework 92
Hypothesis .93
Definition of Terms .94



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III. RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURE
Research Design .96
Subjects of the Study .96
Data Gathering Instrument 98
Data Gathering Procedure .99
Statistical Treatment of Data .100
IV. PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Summary .138
Conclusion .150
Recommendation .151
BIBLIOGRAPHY .152
APPENDIXES
Appendix A. Questionnaire on English Language Macroskills .162
Appendix B. Questionnaire on Teacher’s Assessment of the English
Language Macroskills of Students 170
Appendix C. Validation Letter of the Questionnaire for Students .183
Appendix F. Letter of Request to the Head of Institution .186