Summary of PhD thesis: Nguyen Chi Trung

LIST OF PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC WORKS

OF THE AUTHORS RELATED TO THE THESIS

1. Nguyen Chi Trung (2018), “Students' awareness of copyright issues - Approach from the perspective of open educational resources”,Vietnam Library Magazine, 3(71), pp.29-33.
2. Nguyen Chi Trung (2020), "The current status of reading culture of students at Hanoi National University",Information and Documentation Magazine, 4.

INTRODUCTION

1. Urgency of the topic

In today's information society, reading and reading culture have become important factors, determining the development of society in general. The nature of university education is to provide specialized vocational education and absorb the latest scientific achievements so that people can improve their working skills most effectively. Under the impact of the fourth industrial revolution, scientific and technological information has increased significantly, requiring people to have the skills to select, decode documents, absorb and apply them creatively in the practical process. Reading documents by university students does not stop at the level of forming the habit of reading and understanding documents, but must reach a higher level: absorbing knowledge in documents critically and applying knowledge in learning, scientific research and applying it creatively in practice.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is one of the multidisciplinary, multi-field universities affirmed in legal documents of Vietnam and affirmed its position in the region and the world. VNU has built and gradually implemented a development orientation with the common goal of becoming a research-oriented, multidisciplinary, multi-field university according to regional criteria, including a number of disciplines and fields reaching advanced Asian levels, meeting the requirements of national development.

Fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training to meet the requirements of industrialization and modernization in the context of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration requires VNU to change its development policy to respond to reality.

VNU students are facing new opportunities and challenges. More than ever, they must be aware of their own responsibilities and must be equipped with skills in working with documents, and must have a highly developed reading culture. However, not all students have a high level of reading culture, nor do all students meet the requirements for skills in working with documents. That significantly affects the quality of education at VNU.

Students' reading culture is influenced by many factors, including information and library activities. There have been many studies on students' reading culture published in specialized research journals, scientific conferences and Master's theses, but there has been no systematic study on the model of developing reading culture for students. Most of the studies are small-scale and do not have many highly generalized solutions. Therefore, researching and identifying the reading culture of VNU students to determine whether the level of reading culture development meets the requirements of the process of education and training innovation in general, and higher education in particular, on that basis, proposing a proposed model and solutions to realize the model to support the development of reading culture of VNU students in particular, serving as a model for higher education institutions in the country in general, is suitable for practical requirements. Therefore, the author has chosen to research“Reading culture of VNU students” make your research direction.

2. Research purpose and tasks

2.1. Research purpose

Based on identifying the characteristics and factors affecting the reading culture of VNU students, we propose models and solutions to develop reading culture for VNU students to meet the requirements of innovation in teaching and learning methods and international integration.

2.2. Research tasks

- Clarifying theoretical issues about reading culture and factors affecting students' reading culture.

- Analyze and clarify the characteristics of reading culture of students in the current period of educational innovation and international integration.

- Analyze and evaluate the current status of reading culture of VNU students in the context of educational innovation and international integration today.

- Survey and evaluate the impacts of activities to support and develop reading culture for VNU students through information - library activities, teaching activities, and union activities.

- Research and propose models and solutions to realize the model of developing reading culture of VNU students to meet the requirements of educational innovation and international integration.

3. Research hypothesis

The reading culture of VNU students is changing and developing under the influence of the learning environment, including information and library activities. However, in the face of the requirements of educational innovation and international integration, the reading culture of students still has many limitations: the need to read specialized documents is not really high, especially digital documents; the ability to comprehend documents is still limited, especially the ability to absorb and creatively apply knowledge in the learning and research process; the awareness of respecting copyright is not high.

The causes of the above limitations in the reading culture of VNU students are primarily due to the lack of clear orientation for developing a reading culture for students; there is no mechanism for linking and coordinating synchronously and effectively between departments related to developing a reading culture for students such as: Information Center - Library, lecturers, and related departments in developing a reading culture for students; in particular, the role of the Information Center - Library in developing a reading culture has not been fully promoted.

To effectively develop a reading culture for VNU students, it is necessary to apply a coordination model between the Information Center - Library, mass organizations and lecturers, with the central role of the information agency - library.

4. Research object and scope

- Research object: Reading culture of students.

- Research scope: Hanoi National University, period 2015 - 2020.

5. Research methods

- The author bases on the dialectical materialism and historical materialism methodology; at the same time, based on the Party and State's viewpoints on information and library work.

- Specific research methods: Document analysis and synthesis; Questionnaire investigation; Interview; Observation; Statistics.

6. Scientific significance and application of the topic

-The thesis contributes to perfecting the theory of reading culture and developing reading culture for information users who are students.

- The thesis clarifies the current situation and offers solutions to develop reading culture for VNU students.

- The thesis helps experts and library staff to recognize their position, responsibility, capacity, rights and obligations in the development of reading culture.

- The research results of the thesis are important documents for those who research and study in the field of libraries in particular and those who research Vietnamese culture and education in general.

7. Thesis layout

In addition to the introduction, conclusion, list of references, list of published works related to the thesis topic of the doctoral student and appendix, the thesis includes four chapters:

Chapter 1: Overview of research situation

Chapter 2: Theoretical and practical basis of reading culture of students of Hanoi National University

Chapter 3: Current status of reading culture and work to develop reading culture for students of Hanoi National University

Chapter 4: Proposed model and solutions to develop reading culture for students of Hanoi National University

CHAPTER 1.OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH SITUATION

There have been many studies on reading culture in the country and abroad. The studies are divided into many different trends. The author has collected and analyzed more than 130 documents to find out the opinions and viewpoints of previous researchers on the content related to the thesis.

Within the scope of the research overview, the author considers two main aspects: research on reading culture and research on students' reading culture.

Research on reading culture at home and abroad has been carried out in both theory and practice. The content presented is the result of a review of international and domestic research revolving around reading culture and student reading culture.

In general, the research works have contributed to clarifying the basic issues of reading culture, factors affecting reading culture, and reading culture characteristics of some typical groups of people, including students. However, the studies still have some issues that have not been satisfactorily resolved, which will be suggestions for further research topics in this direction, including research on students' reading culture. The conclusions drawn in the chapter on the overview of the research situation include:

The first,The study of reading culture has been mentioned by many authors, but there is no consistency in explaining the concept of reading culture, leading to the assessment of the characteristics of reading culture of each specific group having different, even opposing views. The role of reading culture for society in general, and for students in particular, has not been clearly explained.

Monday,Studies on students' reading culture mainly focus on the manifestations of students' ability to orient towards the reading audience, ability to comprehend documents and attitudes towards documents. However, there are few studies that fully analyze the characteristics of students' reading culture, especially students' reading culture with digital documents - an important factor related to the quality of university training in the context of the 4.0 industrial revolution.

Tuesday,No research has yet proposed an effective model for developing reading culture for students in the context of modern society.

CHAPTER 2.THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL BASIS

ABOUT READING CULTUREOF STUDENTS

HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

2.1. General issues about reading culture

2.1.1.Concept of reading culture

Based on the concept of culture, reading activities, reading culture also has many different expressions. However, the trend of researching reading culture as a form of human behavioral culture in a certain period is quite popular, and is also the approach chosen by the author of the thesis to research the reading culture of a special group of subjects in modern society: students. Reading culture is the sum of the reading subject's abilities towards receiving and using information in documents, and is a measure of the subject's creativity in reading activities.

2.1.2. Elements of reading culture

Many authors have also proposed the components of reading culture. However, starting from the viewpoint of considering reading culture as the sum of the subject's abilities towards receiving, decoding and comprehending information in documents, people divide the components of reading culture into groups of abilities expressed in the reading process. The viewpoint of dividing the components of reading culture proposed by author Tran Thi Minh Nguyet [63] is suitable for the research object of the thesis. Those abilities include: the subject's ability to orient towards the reading object, the subject's ability to comprehend documents and the subject's attitude towards documents.

2.1.3. Model of reading culture development

There are two models for developing reading culture in the community corresponding to each specific target group. The model with social organizations or individuals as the core is suitable for developing reading culture in the community. Besides, in the learning environment, especially in higher vocational education, where learning and scientific research are necessary requirements for students, the model with information agencies - libraries as the core becomes suitable for developing reading culture of students. Therefore, choosing the appropriate model needs to be paid attention to, researched to ensure high feasibility, along with conditions to ensure the quality of the model.

2.2. Student characteristics

In addition to the psychological characteristics of young people, today's students also have specific characteristics such as: Students aim to develop high-level professional capacity; have the ability to update new scientific and technological achievements; are eager to learn, love innovation, and have high self-awareness.

2.3. Characteristics of students' reading culture

From the perspective of reading culture and student characteristics, student reading culture has the following main characteristics:

- Students have high orientation capacity towards documents appropriate to the specialized field of training.

- Students have the skills to read scientific documents.

- Students are able to apply knowledge in documents into practice.

- Students are forming a sense of respect for copyright.

2.4. Factors affecting students' reading culture

Factors influencing students' reading culture include:

- Characteristics of living environment.

- Information and library activities.

- Personal characteristics.

2.5. Characteristics and requirements for reading culture of students at Hanoi National University

2.5.1. Overview of Hanoi National University

VNU inherits the thousand-year tradition of national education and directly inherits the modern university education of Indochina University and Vietnam National University.

Through the steps of formation and development, with the slogan of action "Reaching the pinnacle based on knowledge" and the core values ​​"High quality - Creativity - Pioneering - Integration - Responsibility - Sustainable development", with a historical tradition of more than 110 years accumulated from Indochina University, VNU is firmly on the path of development, striving to become a multidisciplinary, multi-field research university center with high integration by 2030, in which, a number of member universities and research institutes in the fields of basic science, high technology and key socio-economics reach advanced Asian levels.

2.5.2. Characteristics of students at Hanoi National University

VNU is a multidisciplinary, multi-field university center, focusing on dynamism, creativity and efficiency in all work, so VNU students have some different characteristics compared to students of other higher education institutions. These characteristics include:

- Most students of VNU are people with high cognitive abilities.

- Students are encouraged and facilitated to participate in scientific research activities.

- Most VNU students come from rural areas, areas with difficult or especially difficult socio-economic conditions.

2.5.3. Requirements for reading culture of students at Hanoi National University

From the practice of VNU, we believe that 100% of students need to read, of which at least 70% of students have the ability to search for documents at a high level. However, it is necessary to pay special attention and emphasize the skills of reading specialized documents, the creative application of knowledge into practice and the attitude of respecting scientific knowledge, respecting copyright and intellectual property. This is both a requirement and a criterion to evaluate the reading culture of VNU students.

The first,Students must have the ability to read creatively and actively with a minimum rate of 80%. Students must read specialized documents in depth and have a solid grasp of knowledge. Students also need to know how to combine reading methods to decode documents that are close to their learning and research needs. This is a very important criterion for VNU students because if they do not meet the criteria in this aspect, they will not meet the trend of innovation and improving the training quality of VNU.

Monday,At least 70% of students must know how to select documents through understanding modern information search methods at home and abroad, knowing how to apply them creatively not only to improve knowledge, but also to apply them to learning activities, testing, and evaluation of lecturers, or participating in scientific research to handle practical situations in life.

Tuesday,At least 80% of students must know how to appreciate scientific knowledge, respect copyright and intellectual property rights in citing and sharing information. This is a requirement that is very suitable for the current trend of international integration.

CHAPTER3. CURRENT STATE OF READING CULTURE AND WORK TO DEVELOP READING CULTURE FOR STUDENTS

HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

The current reading culture of VNU students is described according to the following manifestations: Students' ability to orient towards the reading audience (Needs, ability to search for documents); Students' ability to comprehend documents (Reading skills, ability to understand and apply in practice); Attitude towards documents (Awareness of preserving documents and respect for copyright). The survey results were presented and descriptive statistics in the form of frequencies and proportions to assess whether there is a relationship or not as well as the strength of the relationship between nominal and hierarchical variables. In addition, the thesis has used the Chi-square test (c²) to determine whether there is a relationship between the variables and the Cramer's V correlation coefficient.

The description of the current status of reading culture development for VNU students is described through the team of lecturers, library staff and the Youth Union - Student Association with teaching activities, information - library activities and mass activities. The survey results were also presented and descriptive statistics in the form of frequencies and proportions to assess whether there is a relationship as well as the strength of the relationship between nominal and hierarchical variables.

Some comments have been drawn on the current status of reading culture of students as well as the work of developing reading culture for students of VNU as follows:

Strengths

- Students have a high need to read specialized documents and know how to use diverse and modern reference sources.

- Students have the ability to read documents at a certain level.

- Students have been self-conscious in dealing with documents.

The reading culture of VNU students has the above strengths due to a number of reasons.

The first,The implementation of credit-based training in VNU over the past 15 years has achieved great successes. At the same time, the regular change of teaching methods; reviewing and updating training programs and defining the responsibilities of VNU lecturers through guidance documents have affected the reading needs of students.

Monday,The library system has deployed many modern information products and services along with organizing training activities and guiding information users to help students easily access.

Tuesday,The Youth Union - Student Association of VNU has begun implementing a number of activities to contribute to educating students' awareness and responsibility in developing a reading culture.

Wednesday,Most of VNU students are young and dynamic people, selected from prestigious general education institutions, so they have a certain level of thinking and passion for learning and scientific research.

Limit

-Skills to comprehend specialized documents are not high.

- Poor document searching skills.

- Some students still lack awareness of preserving documents.

The above limitations in students' reading culture are due to

The first,Lecturers have not fulfilled their responsibilities according to VNU regulations in teaching and guiding students. Some lecturers have to take on many jobs, so they do not have much time to guide and assist students.

Monday,The activities of the VNU Information Center - Library have not yet met the reading needs of students. The system of document rooms/departments of training institutions under VNU still operate separately, lacking connection with the VNU Information Center - Library.

Tuesday,There is not yet close coordination between the library system and lecturers. Although lecturers rated the effectiveness of the library in supporting their own teaching and research and in supporting students' learning at a fairly good level, accounting for the highest percentage (46.2%), they also frankly admitted that this coordination was not frequent. Among the lecturers participating in the discussion, only 22.8% of lecturers regularly coordinated with the library to introduce documents to students, 49.3% of lecturers occasionally coordinated, while up to 27.9% of lecturers did not have time to coordinate with the library. The lack of close coordination shows that the awareness of relevant departments (management levels, librarians, lecturers, etc.) about the role of reading culture and responsibility for developing reading culture for students is still inadequate. In other words, the impact of the library system, lecturers and mass organizations is still spontaneous, limiting the potential for developing a reading culture at VNU.

Wednesday,Although the activities of the Youth Union - Student Association have been actively implemented, they are still scattered, mainly superficial activities, without major programs and work focuses to help students realize the importance of reading and researching documents to serve their major and work after graduation at VNU.

Thursday,VNU does not have a strong enough mechanism to control copyright and intellectual property violations. This is not only the responsibility of VNU but also the responsibility of the whole society. In addition, VNU also does not have an appropriate mechanism to coordinate between relevant parties to develop a reading culture for students.

CHAPTER 4. PROPOSED MODEL AND SOLUTION

DEVELOPING READING CULTURE FOR STUDENTS OF HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

4.1. Model of developing reading culture for students of Hanoi National University

Developing a reading culture for VNU students is a complex issue that requires coordination between lecturers, mass organizations and the library system according to an appropriate mechanism.

The proposed model is based on:

Theoretical basisRegarding the trend of building a model to develop a reading culture, there are: a model with information agencies - libraries as the core and a model with social organizations or individuals as the core;

Based on practiceThrough the evaluation survey, it is shown that the development of reading culture in general has received attention, but the impact of the library system, lecturers and mass organizations is still spontaneous, so the effectiveness of activities is still limited. This spontaneity leads to the lack of coordination between related parties, limiting the potential for developing reading culture at VNU;

Legal basisthrough the State's awareness of the role of reading culture and the work of developing reading culture in the community and supporting the development of reading culture by promulgating legal documents.

The proposed model for developing a reading culture for VNU students emphasizes the coordination between internal factors of VNU and between VNU and external agencies and organizations. In VNU, there needs to be coordination between the library and training institutions and mass organizations with the central role of the VNU Library - Information Center.

The quality assurance conditions for effective operation of the model include: appropriate management mechanism, focus on human factors, and effective information - library operations.

4.2. Solutions to realize the model of developing reading culture for students of Hanoi National University

To realize the model of developing a reading culture for VNU students, we need some important solutions such as: renewing the awareness of leaders, lecturers, and library staff in developing a reading culture for students; thereby improving the effectiveness of management in developing a reading culture; enhancing the effectiveness of developing a reading culture for students in information and library activities from the perspective of focusing on training, guiding and educating information users, improving the quality of information products and services, strengthening information resources and technological infrastructure; promoting human resources and the role of student organizations in VNU in developing a reading culture for students.

CONCLUSIONAN

Reading culture is considered in the thesis as human behavioral culture. Reading culture is the sum of the reading subject's abilities towards receiving and using information in documents, is a measure of the subject's creativity in reading activities expressed through the subject's ability to orient towards the reading object, the subject's ability to comprehend documents and the subject's attitude towards documents.

Students are a young, qualified force with outstanding advantages compared to other young people in society. In response to the requirements of innovation in teaching and learning methods, students' reading culture has many different characteristics compared to other subjects, expressed in having a high capacity for orientation towards documents, having high-level scientific reading skills, students have the ability to apply information in documents into practice and are forming a sense of respect for copyright and intellectual property.

VNU is one of the multidisciplinary and multi-field universities in Vietnam. After more than 25 years of construction and development, inheriting the tradition of the University of Indochina and Vietnam National University, along with extensive participation in the network of Southeast Asian universities, VNU has affirmed its pivotal and pioneering role in the Vietnamese higher education system in training, scientific research, university administration and international integration. Regarding university rankings, VNU is always highly appreciated by prestigious organizations, belonging to the group of 75% of the world's leading universities. With the philosophy of "Reaching the peak based on knowledge", VNU has built and gradually implemented a development orientation with the common goal of becoming a multidisciplinary and multi-field research university according to regional criteria, including a number of industries and fields reaching advanced Asian levels, meeting the requirements of national development.

Under the leadership and direction of the Party Committee and the Board of Directors of VNU, political tasks such as training, scientific research, cooperation and development, politics and student affairs, etc. always have breakthrough, pioneering, innovative and creative solutions. Supporting students in studying and scientific research is always focused on by VNU, enhancing the implementation method and quality to help students fully develop both knowledge and skills, in which the development of reading culture in the context of innovative teaching methods plays a very important role.

The thesis has conducted a survey on the current status of reading culture of VNU students through the manifestations of the ability to orient towards the reading audience, the ability to comprehend documents and the students' attitudes towards documents. At the same time, it analyzes the activities of developing reading culture for VNU students today through the team of lecturers, library staff and the Youth Union - Student Association with teaching activities, information - library activities and mass activities.

The survey results show that the reading culture of VNU students has developed under the influence of factors such as the educational environment, training programs, lecturers, information - library activities and activities of mass organizations in VNU and has some outstanding advantages such as: Students have a high demand for reading specialized documents and know how to use diverse and modern reference sources; students have a certain level of reading skills and have a sense of self-awareness in dealing with documents. The reason is that the work of developing a reading culture for VNU students through teaching activities, information - library activities and mass activities has been given regular attention. However, there are still some certain limitations such as: Students' skills in comprehending specialized documents are not high.;The skills of searching for documents are not high and some students lack awareness of preserving documents. The reason is that the impact of the library system, lecturers and mass organizations is still spontaneous, so the effectiveness of activities is limited. This spontaneity leads to the lack of coordination between related parties, limiting the potential for developing a reading culture at VNU.

In order to develop a reading culture for VNU students to meet the requirements of innovation in teaching methods at VNU and to be suitable with the requirements of innovation in education and training in the new situation, the thesis has proposed a principled coordination model in developing a reading culture for students between lecturers, information agencies - libraries and mass organizations with the central role of information agencies - libraries.

To realize the model of developing a reading culture for VNU students, some important solutions are needed such as: renewing the awareness of leaders, lecturers, and library staff in developing a reading culture for students; thereby improving the management efficiency in developing a reading culture; enhancing the effectiveness of developing a reading culture for students in information and library activities from the perspective of focusing on training, guiding and educating information users, improving the quality of information products and services, strengthening information resources and technological infrastructure; promoting human resources and the role of student organizations in VNU in developing a reading culture for students.

The above model and solutions are suitable for the research area of ​​VNU. To replicate this model in higher education institutions nationwide, we think it is necessary to have the attention and direction in terms of state management of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Education and Training in amending the regulations on the organization and operation of university libraries and clearly stating the goals of developing a reading culture, the interaction between the library and relevant departments of specific higher education institutions.