TTLV: Research on errors in pre-centered noun phrase components in Vietnamese: The case of native French-speaking students learning Vietnamese

1. Student's full name: Le Mai Trang

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: May 22, 1977

4. Place of birth: Hanoi

5. Decision on student admission No. 2415/2015/QD-XHNV-DT dated October 13, 2015, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in the training process: Extension decisions No. 2639/QD-XHNV dated October 13, 2017 and No. 1008/QD-XHNV dated April 13, 2018 of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

7. Thesis title:Research on errors in pre-centered noun phrase components in Vietnamese: The case of native French-speaking students learning Vietnamese.

8. Major: Linguistics; Code: 60220240

9. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dr. Vu Van Dai

10. Summary of the thesis results:

- The thesis has established the basic theories related to the research subject, built a rigorous and consistent theoretical and conceptual framework, serving as a basis for studying errors in the pre-centered noun phrase in Vietnamese spoken French by native-speaking students.

- The thesis conducted experimental research and surveys using written materials from 160 native French-speaking students with elementary and intermediate Vietnamese proficiency. It collected 961 examples of erroneous noun phrases out of a total of 4074 surveyed samples, accurately describing and classifying the types of errors in the pre-centered noun phrase components in Vietnamese spoken by native French-speaking students into six categories: errors in conceptual unit components, errors in the use of the determiner "cái", errors in quantitative components, errors in general quantitative components, errors in the order of components, and errors in the shortened form of noun phrases.

- The thesis has accurately analyzed the causes of each type of error based on a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between the two structures of the pre-center noun phrase components in French and Vietnamese; it points out two sources of errors in students' learning strategies: errors due to the interference of French-Vietnamese noun phrase knowledge and errors due to difficulties in mastering specific knowledge about grammatical methods of word order, word classes, and semantic correspondence between word classes and the central noun in Vietnamese noun phrases.

- The thesis also proposed pedagogical solutions to correct errors in accordance with modern teaching methods.

11. Practical applications:

The research findings on errors in the pre-center element of Vietnamese noun phrases made by native French-speaking students will be applied to the compilation of noun-related lesson plans with appropriate adjustments to improve the effectiveness of teaching Vietnamese as a foreign language to native French-speaking students at the Alexandre Yersin French School in Hanoi.

12. Future research directions:

In the future, the author of this thesis may continue experimental research to develop systematic and scientifically verifiable solutions to correct errors in the pre-centered noun phrase components of Vietnamese spoken by native French speakers.

13. Published works related to the thesis:

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name:Le Mai Trang2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: May 22^nd,1977 4. Place of birth: Hanoi

5. Admission decision number: 2415/2015/QD-XHNV-ĐT, October 13^th, 2015 by President of Social Sciences and Humanities-Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process: Decisions of extension No. 2639/ QD-XHNV dated on October 13^th, 2017 and No. 1008/ QD-XHNV dated on April 13^th, 2018 by President of Social Sciences and Humanities-Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

7. Official thesis title: Research on errors in the predeterminer of Vietnamese noun phrases: The case of French native speaker students learning Vietnamese language

8. Major: Linguistics 9. Code: 60220240

10. Supervisors: Prof. PhD. Vu Van Dai

11. Summary of the findings of the thesis:

- The thesis has defined the basic theories related to research subjects, built the framework of the theory and the strict, consistent basis for the research on errors in the predeterminer of Vietnamese noun phrases of French native speaker students.

- The thesis was carried out practical research, investigated through written sources of 160 French native speaker students at the elementary and pre-intermediate level of Vietnamese efficiency, collected 961 noun phrase errors of 4074 surveyed samples, described and classified exactly the types of errors of French native speaker students in the predeterminer of Vietnamese noun phrases into 6 types of errors: the errors in subordinate element denoting the unit occupied by a classifier, the errors in subordinate element “the” denoting demonstrative, the errors in subordinate element denoting quantity, the errors in subordinate element denoting “all”, the errors in the order of subordinate elements, the errors in using the short form of a noun phrase.

- The thesis correctly analyzes the causes of each type of errors on the basis of a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between the structures of the subordinate elements standing before the nucleus noun in the French and Vietnamese noun phrases and identifying the causes of errors in the student's learning strategy which are: i) the interlingual errors (interference in knowledge of French – Vietnamese noun phrases) ii) the intralingual errors coming from the difficulty of acquiring specific knowledge of Vietnamese noun phrases such as the syntax based on the word order, the presence of the functional word calling the classifier, the semantic matching between the classifier and the nucleus noun.

- The thesis also proposed solutions to overcome the errors in accordance with modern teaching methods.

12. Practical applicability:

The results of the research on errors in the predeterminer of Vietnamese noun phrases will be applied to the compilation of noun-related lectures with appropriate adjustments in order to improve efficiency of teaching Vietnamese as a foreign language to French native speaker students at the French school Alexandre Yersin in Hanoi.

13. Further research directions:

In the future, the author of the thesis will continue to carry out more research in order to develop solutions to overcome errors in the predeterminer of Vietnamese noun phrases of French native speaker students in a systematic way which will have strong scientific proof.

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