1. Student's name: Nguyen Thi Binh Yen
2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: December 13, 1977
4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Student recognition decision No. 2705/2020/QD-XHNV dated December 24, 2020 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in training process: No
7. Thesis topic: Survey of conversational language in Vietnamese teaching materials for foreigners (Intermediate level).
8. Major: Linguistics; Code: 8229020.01
9. Scientific advisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Dinh Kieu Chau
10. Summary of thesis results:
The thesis has surveyed the conversational language appearing in 13 Vietnamese teaching materials for foreigners that have been practically and popularly used from 1999 to the present at the Intermediate level. This is one of the first practical applied studies with a relatively comprehensive scale on conversational language in Vietnamese teaching materials as a foreign language at this level of language competence.
Through specific surveys, the thesis has clarified some quantitative characteristics as well as conversational language characteristics in some aspects such as: utterances according to speaking purposes, speech acts and some linguistic-cultural characteristics.
Based on the survey results, the thesis has made some discussions from the perspective of building Vietnamese communication skills for foreign learners at the intermediate level as well as the compatibility of existing documents with the newly issued Vietnamese Proficiency Assessment Framework (2018).
The thesis also attempts to make some proposals/suggestions towards improving the design of conversational language in Vietnamese teaching materials to be more suitable and effective for teaching and assessment purposes.
11. Practical applicability: Conversational language is one of the important contents in the process of building capacity and communication skills for learners. Therefore, the results of the thesis have reference value and suggestions for building learning materials, teaching and learning Vietnamese as a foreign language and at the same time serving the work of testing and assessing Vietnamese proficiency more professionally.
12. Further research directions: None
13. Published works related to the thesis: None
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Binh Yen
2. Sex: Female
3. Date of birth: 13/12/1977
4. Place of birth: Ha Noi
5. Admission decision number: No 2705/2020/QD-XHNV Dated: December 24, 2020 by The Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in academic process: No
7. Official thesis title: Research of converstional language in Vietnamese learning materials for foreigners (case Intermediate level).
8. Major: Linguistics Code: 8229020.01
9. Supervisors: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Kieu Chau Palace
10. Summary of the findings of the thesis:
The thesis has researched the conversational language appearing in 13 publications on teaching Vietnamese language to foreigners that has been used practically and popularly since 1999 at the intermediate level. This is one of the first practical, relatively large-scale applied researches on conversational language in the documents on teaching Vietnamese as a foreign language at this level of language ability.
Through specific research, the thesis has clarified some quantitative characteristics as well as conversational language characteristics in a number of aspects such as: utterance for the purpose of speaking, speech act and some linguistic and cultural characteristics.
Based on the research results, the thesis has given some discussion from the perspective of building Vietnamese communication capacity for foreign learners at intermediate level as well as the compatibility of existing teaching documents with the newly issued Vietnamese Language Competency Assessment Framework (2018).
The thesis also tries to propose some suggestions for improvement towards the preparation of conversational language in Vietnamese teaching materials to be more suitable and effective for teaching and assessment purposes.
11. Practical applicability: Conversational language is one of the important contents in the process of building capacity and communication skills for learners. Therefore, the results of the thesis are valuable for reference and suggestions for building learning materials, teaching and learning Vietnamese as a foreign language, and at the same time serving the assessment of Vietnamese language proficiency more professionally.
12. Further research directions, if any: No
13. Thesis-related publications: No
