1 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES Đồng Quỳnh Trang

Adapting reading tasks of ESP materials for the third-year
students at HaiPhong Medical University

Điều chỉnh những nhiệm vụ đọc hiểu theo tài liệu tiếng Anh chuyên
ngành cho sinh viên năm thứ ba tr-ờng Đại học Y Hải Phòng m.a. minor thesis

Field: English Methodology
Code: 60 14 10

Hanoi, 2010



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Table of Contents
Declarations
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of contents
List of abbreviation
List of figures, charts and tables
Part I. Introduction 1
I. Rationale 1
II. Aims of the study 2
III. Methods of the study 3
IV. Scope of the study 3
V. Design of the study 3
Part II. Development 5
Chapter I. Literature review 5
I.1. An overview of ESP 5
I.1.1. Definition of ESP 5
I.1.2. Types of ESP 6
I.1.3. Characteristics of ESP 8
I.2. Material adaptation 9
I.2.1. Definition of material adaptation 9
I.2.2. Purposes of material adaptation 9
I.2.3. Techniques of material adaptation for teaching reading 10
I.2.3.1. Adaptation as addition 10

II.4.1.1. Evaluation of the effectiveness of reading tasks in the ESP materials 23
II.4.1.2. The attitudes and evaluation of the reading texts in the current

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textbook 24
II.4.1.3. Needed topics perceived by the students 26
II.4.1.4. Students‟ attitudes towards pre-reading activities 26
II.4.1.4.1. The frequency of using extra pre-reading activities
designed by the teachers (responded by the students) 26
II.4.1.4.2. Students‟ attitudes towards given pre-reading activities 27
II.4.1.5. The post-reading activities used by the teachers 28
II.4.1.6. The necessity of adapting the reading tasks in the ESP materials 29
II.4.1.7. The students‟ and teachers‟ difficulties in learning and teaching
medical reading (respectively) 30
II.4.1.8. The students‟ expectations from the teachers and reading
activities employed by the teachers to help their students
overcome difficulties 31
II.4.2. Follow-up class observation 32
II.5. Concluding remarks 33
Chapter III. some suggested techniques of adapting reading
tasks for the third-year students at hai phong
medical university 34
III.1. Replacing 34
III.2. Supplementing 35
III.3. Extending 38
Part III. Conclusion 40
1. Summary of the study 40
2. Limitations of the study 41
3. Suggestions for further study 41