INFORMATION ABOUT THE MASTER'S THESIS
1. Student's full name:SoundChai SIMMALAVONG
2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: September 5, 1984
4. Place of birth: Laos
5. Decision on student admission No. 1953/2011/QD-XHNV-SDH, dated October 11, 2011, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in the training process:
7. Thesis title:Initial survey of phonetic errors among Lao students learning Vietnamese.
8. Major: Linguistics Code: 60.22.02.40
9. Scientific supervisor:Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Binh
10. Summary of the thesis results:
In recent years, cultural exchange between Vietnam and the global community has been developing, and linguistic contact between Vietnamese and other languages in general, and with Lao in particular, has been expanding. In this context, the thesis "A Survey of Phonetic Errors of Lao Speakers of Vietnamese" offers new and significant research, both theoretically and practically, contributing to the improvement and development of Vietnamese language teaching and learning for Lao speakers.
Besides the introduction and conclusion, the main body of the thesis consists of 3 chapters.
Chapter 1: The author addressed general theories related to phonetic errors. In it, the author analyzed and defined the concepts of "error," how errors are created, the types of errors, and presented viewpoints on phonetic characteristics in general and Vietnamese phonetics in particular.
Chapter 2: The author presents in detail and provides specific examples of the types of phonetic errors that Lao speakers often make when speaking Vietnamese. These include: errors in tone, errors in pronouncing initial consonants, errors in pronouncing vowel sounds (including medial consonants, vowels, and final vowels), and errors in pronouncing final consonants. In addition, the author also addresses spelling errors made by Lao speakers due to incorrect pronunciation.
Chapter 3: This thesis presents and analyzes in detail measures to overcome phonetic errors in Vietnamese for Lao learners. Lao learners need to distinguish between the phonetic systems of Vietnamese and their mother tongue, and on that basis, absorb new elements from the Vietnamese phonetic system. Learners need to practice pronouncing each letter, starting with simple words and gradually progressing to compound words and word sequences within sentences. They should practice reading Vietnamese poems, stories, and songs, and communicate regularly in Vietnamese. Furthermore, the help of teachers, lecturers, friends, and all Vietnamese people is essential to help Lao learners overcome Vietnamese pronunciation errors and improve the quality and accuracy of their Vietnamese language learning.
With this relatively new research direction, the author hopes that this study will not only point out pronunciation errors made by Laotians when speaking Vietnamese and suggest solutions, but also contribute a small part to improving the quality of Vietnamese language teaching for foreigners in general and Laotians in particular.
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Information on Master's Thesis
1.Full name: SoudChai SIMMALAVONG 2. Sex: Female
3. Date of birth: September 5, 1984 4. Place of birth: TB
5. Admission decision number: 1953/2011/QĐ-XHNV-SĐH, Date: 11/10/2011
6. Changes in academic process:
7. Official thesis title: Phonological errors of Lao students who learn Vietnamese language.
8. Major: Linguistics 9. Code: 60.22.02.40
10. Supervisors: Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Binh
11. Summary of the findings of the thesis:
For recent years, the cultural exchange between Vietnam and the world's community is tendentiously developing, the language contracts between Vietnamese language and other languages in general and Lao language in particular is broadening. In this tendency, the thesis “Investigation for phonic errors among Lao people speaking Vietnamese language” introduces the new and meaningful studies in theory and reality, which contribute into improving and developing the works of teaching and learning Vietnamese language among Lao people.
Besides the introduction and conclusion, the main content of thesis includes 3 chapters.
Chapter 1: The author mentions common arguments related to phonic errors. In which, the author analyzes and introduces concepts of “error”, how are errors created, how many errors have them, and also shows the ideals on phonic characteristics in general and characteristics of Vietnamese phonology in particular.
Chapter 2: The author presents in details and introduces detailed samples about categories of phonic errors which Lao people often have when they speak Vietnamese. They include: rhythm errors, errors when pronouncing initial consonants, errors when pronouncing final consonants (including secondary syllables, primary syllables and final vowels), and errors when pronouncing final consonants. In addition, the author also mentions misspelled errors of Lao people due to wrong pronunciation.
Chapter 3: The thesis introduces and analyzes in details the methods to improve phonic errors of Vietnamese language among Lao people. Lao trainees need to distinguish the difference between two phonic systems of Vietnamese language and mother language, and accordingly they can acquire new information from Vietnamese language system. The trainees should practice pronouncing each letter and from easy words to difficult words, and gradually pronouncing compound words, word chains in a sentence. They should practice reading poems, stories, songs in Vietnamese language and they must communicate often by Vietnamese language. In addition, the teachers, tutors, friends and all Vietnamese people should help Lao trainees to overcome pronouncing errors of Vietnamese language and to improve the learning quality of learning Vietnamese language better and more accurate.
Thanks to rather new research direction, the author hopes the thesis does not cover pronouncing errors of Lao people when speaking Vietnamese language and introduces solutions, but also has a small contribution into improving the quality of teaching Vietnamese language to foreign people in general and Lao people in particular.
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