TAILIEUCHUNG - Exploring language input of the reading texts in northstar textbooks for first-year Englishmajor students at university of foreign languages, Hue University

This paper reports the results of a project on exploring the language input of reading texts in a book series used in teaching reading for first-year English-major students at University of Foreign languages, Hue University. It aims at investigating text topics, genres, length, language difficulty level, and students’ as well as teachers’ perceptions of the studied texts in an attempt to facilitate students’ reading comprehension. Thirty-two reading texts were studied by using a descriptive-analytical approach. Individual and focus group interviews were implemented with 15 students and 7 lecturers. The findings show that textbooks incorporate a wide variety of topics, which are interesting and familiar to students. Articles are the most popular text genre. The text length and language difficulty level prove to be appropriate to students’ capacity. The lecturers and students’ perceptions of the texts also support the textbook analysis findings. These findings implicate that the selected textbooks could be kept in the curriculum but need further adaptation. Besides, some suggestions were made to help ELT lecturers modify the text input effectively. |

• Giáo dục học
• Reading text
• Language input
• Reading comprehension
• Exploring language input
• Reading texts
• Lecture How to teach reading
• Why teach reading
• Kinds of reading text
• Reading skills required
• Stages of a reading lesson
• Learning English
• Summary of Doctorate Thesis in Education
• Summary of Doctorate Thesis
• Thesis in Education
• Multimodal text reading comprehension
• Middle school Literature
• Text teaching methods
• Phương pháp giảng dạy tiếng Anh
• Giảng dạy tiếng Anh
• Teach reading
• Primary Education
• Competence based Teaching
• Text reading comprehension
• Pupils of grades 4 and 5
• Summarization of doctoral thesis
• Primary school pupils
• Executive summary of Education engineer
• ntegrated skills development self awareness
• Teaching reading comprehension text professional
• Secondary school
• Teaching grammar in high schools
• Text structure
• Discourse structure
• Reading instruction
• Teaching reading skills
• Signalling languages
• Text comprehension
• Significant interaction
• Expertise groups
• ESP reading comprehension
• Instructional geography text
• Social sciences and humanities
• Interacting with academic readings
• Academic reading
• Active reading support
• Text annotation
• Students complete the text or not
• The way students get main idea
• the students at Sao Viet
• Design of the study
• Theoretical background
• Definition of reading
• sports results
• text messages
• notes and memos
• describing towns
• adventure story
• encyclopaedia entry
• complete a sentence
• single text
• descriptions of questions
• reading portion
• read a sentence
• word missing
• Ug as in bug
• Ebook Ug as in bug
• SandCastle™ books
• Reading specialists
• Professional team of educators
• Literary text
• Response Inviting structure
• Communication strategy
• Social constructivism
• Communication theory
• Lexical dimension
• Reading comprehension problems
• Vocabulary learning
• Phrasal verbs
• Irregular past form of verbs
• Irregular past participles
• Ebook Introductory course TNT TOEIC
• Introductory course TNT TOEIC
• Introductory course TNT TOEIC (Volume One)
• Daily listening practice
• Text completion
• Adjective determines and agreement
• Verb combinations