THE EFFECTS OF USING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT LE HOAN HIGH SCHOOL

• Main Author: Dương, Thị Thu Hiền
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: H. : ĐHNN 2017
• Subjects: AUTHENTIC MATERIALS
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/54596
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

The study was conducted with the hope that the result gained could clarify the effects of using authentic materials on students reading comprehension achievement at Le Hoan High School. In order to achieve the goals, quasi - experimental research design was employed. Subjects of the study were two groups of 30 students each of 10 th grade – students at Le Hoan High School. One group w as assigned as the experimental group and the other as the control group. The students of both groups were taught with the same teaching techniques, the same teaching topics and did the same tests but with different types of teaching materials in an 8 - week - period. While the experimental group used authentic materials provided by the teacher, the control group only used materials in the course book - English 10 published by the Ministry of Education and Training. A pretest and a posttest were used to measure the improvement in the reading skill of the students in the two groups. The research results showed that the reading skill of the students who worked with a uthentic materials was better im proved than that of the students working with only course book . The former seemed to be able to avoid some typical mistakes about vocabulary which the students in control group often made. Therefore it is suggested that authentic materials be used in teaching reading skill for high school students in order to get the highest results. English teachers also need to be creative in selecting, developing and providing teaching materials to their students.