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Luận văn tiếng Anh:English compound nouns in a contrastive analysis with the Vietnamese equivalents and some implications for teaching and learning vocabulary in the textbook "English for the hotel and tourist industry" = Danh từ ghép tiếng Anh trong sự so sánh đối chiếu với tiếng Việt và một số gợi ý trong việc dạy và học từ vựng trong giáo trình "English for the hotel and tourist Industry"
PART 1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Rationale
In recent years, teaching English has been paid considerable attention by many linguistic
scholars and teachers. Various communicative approaches have been applied with the hope
to teach learners to use English as the native speakers. However, the process of learning
English involves not only practicing the four skills needed in communication as speaking,
listening, reading and writing but also mastering other aspects such as grammar structures,
sounds and vocabulary. And enriching one’s vocabulary of a language is very important as
Wilkins (1972:111) comments: "Without grammar, very little can be conveyed; without
vocabulary nothing can be conveyed." Besides, possessing a rich source of vocabulary in
English will enable learners to speak and to write concisely. Unfortunately, dealing with
new English words is one of the most difficulties for any language learners as words in
English are numerous and continuously developing together with the changes of the
society.
New English words are formed in various ways such as borrowing, affixation, conversion,
composition, shortening, etc. Among which, compounding or composition is a rich source
of English neologisms. According to an analysis of the Longman Register of new words
Vol. 1, it accounts for 39.8 % of new words (Ayto, in Anderman 1996:65) while a similar
analysis of the Macquarie Dictionary of new words shows that it can account for 54.5%
(Butler, in Ayato in Anderman 1996:66). Given, therefore, that compounding is highly
productive process of word formation. Moreover, compounding is an effective tool to
express ideas concisely. However, compound words have specific and complicated
features that many learners of English find it not easy to use. Furthermore, there is a fact
that nominal compounds appear most in our daily life, especially in professional texts as in
business, medicine, science and technology as well as other areas of English for Specific
Purposes (ESP). Thus, students of ESP have a greater difficulty when coping with them.
Because of its importance and complication, study on compound nouns interests so many
linguists and researchers. There have been a number of studies on compound nouns
conducted by many researchers. In our university some have been carried out at under
graduate level but none of the studies have done at post-graduate level. None of them have
given the suggestions for dealing with compound nouns in a professional text, either.
For those reasons, as a learner as well as a teacher of English, I would like to do a research
on this matter with the hope that I would understand properly the features of English
compound nouns and find out an appropriate way to teach them to my students of ESP.
1.2. Aims and objectives of the study
The major aims of this study are:
- To make a comparison of compound nouns in English and Vietnamese. To achieve this
aim, the study will examine the characteristics of compound nouns in terms of syntactic
and semantic features as well as their classifications and types in English and Vietnamese.
From these characteristics, the author will compare English compound nouns and the
Vietnamese equivalents.
- To give the suggestions for teaching vocabulary in ESP textbooks in general and the
textbook “English for the hotel and tourist industry” in particular. The study will examine
the main types of compound nouns used in the textbook, the descriptions of students in
term of English level, learning conditions and how they understand and use compound
nouns in this textbook as well as some common errors they often make. Then the
suggestions for teaching and learning English compound nouns will be given based on the
findings.
Thus, the following research questions are raised for guided research.
1. What are the characteristics of English and Vietnamese compound nouns?
2. What are the differences and similarities of compound nouns in English and
Vietnamese in term of their syntactic, semantic features and their classifications?
3. What are the suggestions for teaching and learning vocabulary in the textbook
“English for the hotel and tourist industry”?
1.3. Scope of the study
Compounding is a complicated subject matter that received a lot of linguists’ attentions.
They have proposed a number of researches on various interesting aspects, mostly on
semantic interpretation of nominal compounds. Within a minor thesis, I only focus on the
similarities and differences between compound nouns in English and Vietnamese in terms
of semantic, syntactic features and their classifications which provide teachers of English
an adequate understanding on the issue so that they will have an appropriate teaching
method to compound nouns.
1.4. Methods of the study
This study uses the combination of some different methods:
The strategic method chosen is the descriptive which seeks to describe and explain the
phenomenon. Contrastive Analysis is also used in this research.
Together with these methods, researcher also uses the quantitative procedures that based
on facts and features to examine common compound nouns used in the ESP textbook and
the reality of teaching and learning compound nouns in her university. Data is collected by
conducting a test on students’ using and understanding of compound nouns.
Supporting techniques such as reference to the publication, consultation with the
supervisor, discussion with colleagues, and personal observations are also of significant
contribution to the study.
1.5. Design of the study
The study is divided into three main parts:
Part 1 entitled “Introduction”, in which the rationale, aims, scope of the study, methods
and design of the study are all introduced.
Part 2 is the “Development”. This part is the focus of the study which is divided into 4
chapters as following:
Chapter 1: “Theoretical background” provides some important concepts on
lexicology relevant to the subject matter which set the theoretical background for the study
such as: words and words structures, word formation processes.
Chapter 2: “The investigation into English compound nouns” focuses on all the
characteristics of English compound nouns.
Chapter 3: “Vietnamese compound nouns in a contrastive analysis with English
equivalents” investigates the Vietnamese compound nouns and points out the similarities
and differences between English and Vietnamese compound nouns.
Chapter 4 entitled “Implications for teaching and learning vocabulary in the
textbook “English for the hotel and tourist industry” consists of following sections:
- An analysis on the common types of compound nouns in the textbook.
- The research
- Pedagogical implications for teaching vocabulary in the textbook: “English for the
hotel and tourist industry”.
Part 3 is the conclusion. This part briefly presents review of the major findings,
conclusions remarked and suggestions for further study.
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