GROUP 9- HOMEWORK

Members: Tran Thi Anh- Nguyen Thuy Dung- Nguyen Thi Kim Dung

I. Read the literature review of a research article 3 by Kim and Hall and
answers the following questions
1. What is the organization of the literature review?
- The research problem: The Role of an Interactive Book Reading Program in the
Development of Second Language Pragmatic Competence.
- Actknowledgements
- Introduction
- Literature review:
 The development of communicative competence.
 The overview of the recent research on interactive book reading
programs.
- Methods:
 Participants and setting
 Participants: 4 native-speaking Korean children who were learning
ELF.
 Setting: at the home of Daejin Kim.
 Materials: seven books of Miriam Cohen that have ample descriptions and
goodillustrations of the context.
 Procedures: Interactive book reading sessions.
 Approach to data collection: microgenetic observation.
 Analysis:
 Categories of Pragmatic Competence Used
 Number of words during four months
- Findings and discussions
 Findings: vocabulary; utterances; talk management; meaning
management.
 Discussions
- Conclusion
- References
2. How did the author(s) justify the significance of the study? or Why is it
worth doing the study? or What is the contribution of the study to the
field?

 The authors wrote the importance and the impact of the topic research in our
life. Their research was gleaned from the existing literature on the subject.
They conducted a thorough literature survey and identify gaps in the current
literature. They wrote this was to introduce the current literature in the
background/Introduction section and then highlighted the gaps in the literature
that had not been addressed or are yet to be understood.
 Explain the research focus and its relationship to the discipline or field of study
that supports the need to conduct the proposed study
 Describe the issue, situation, problem, or opportunity that supports the need to
implement the study
 Explain how the outcome of your study will benefit practitioners and scholars.
 The contribution of the study to the field is to investigate the connection
between Korean children’s participation in interactive book reading program
and their development of pragmatic competence in English.

3. Make a list of reporting verbs that you found in the literature review.
4. Give 3 examples to show how the author(s) quoted or cited in the
literature review?
- The authors citied by showing directly the opinion of another author.
Example: “ Kramsch notes: Teaching how to shape contexts of interaction can
not be done directly by well-closed administraction of fact…Pragmatic
knowledge…can only be acquired through observation and analysis and a feel
for the whole social context. It is not an “if then” affair. It requires, therefore,
a totally different pedagogic approach. (p.92)”.
- The authors quoted the sentences from the literature review and list the authors
of previous studies or theses and the years in which they made their statement.
Example: In first language (L1) situation, children obtain these pragmatic
skills through engagement in communicative activities with their caregivers or
more expert communicators (Gumperz, 1982; Ochs & Schieffelin, 1979;
Schieffelin & Ochs, 1986).
II. The research problem and research questions of my group
My group was wondering between the two options:
 FIRST OPTION:
1. The research problem: Applying music into teaching English for kids in Yen
Dong kindergarten.
2. Research questions:
 What is the reality of teaching English through music in Yen Dong
kindergarten, Y Yen, Nam Dinh, Vietnam?
 How can Vietnamese teachers apply music to teach and develop English for
kids in Yen Dong kindergarten, Y Yen, Nam Dinh, Vietnam?
3. Questionnaire
1. How long have you taught in YenDOng kindergarten?
A. Under1 year
B. 1-3 years
C. 3-5 years
D. 7-10 years
E. Over 10 years
2. Do all teachers in Yen Dong kindergarten use the same English teaching
method?
A. Yes
B. No
3. You usually teach your students by:
A. Pictures
B. Music
C. Story
D. Playing games
E. Film/video
F. Roling
G. Other: ______________
4. According to the answers shown in the 3