The use of authentic online resources for self-study in learning listening by first year fast-track students at FELTE, ULIS, VNU = việc sử dụng các nguồn tài liệu thực trên mạng cho việc tự học nghe của sinh viên năm nhất, hệ chất lượng cao khoa sư phạm tiếng Anh, ĐHNN, ĐHQGHN

• Main Author: Nguyễn, Ngọc Mai
• Other Authors: Phạm, Thị Thanh Thủy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Tiếng Anh > Dạy và học; Kỹ năng nghe hiểu
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/100091
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

The concept of authentic sources as supplementary materials has long been introduced and applied in English language teaching field, which raises much interest in researchers, especially teachers. However, the use of such sources by students for self-study to develop listening proficiency has not been widely and meticulously investigated. Thus, this paper seeks to explore first year fast-track students’ understandings and evaluation of authentic online resources as well as their ways to utilize these sources for listening self-study purpose. The paper begins by reviewing the current literature on listening learning, authentic online resources, learners’ self-study and related fields. The investigation then involves the participation of three teachers and 57 fast-track students at FELTE, ULIS, VNU, with the triangulated data collection methods of survey questionnaire, interviews and observation of documents. The research results demonstrate how favorable authentic online resources are among the students for their self-study in learning listening despite some misunderstandings of the sources and the difficulties they encounter while exploiting the sources. In addition, it shows students’ different ways of employing internet-based authentic listening materials and reveals the significant role of teachers in guiding, scaffolding and motivating their students to have an exhaustive exploitation of the sources for their listening self-study as independent, life-long learners.