TRƯỜNG ĐH SƯ PHẠM TP.

HCM ĐỀ THI KẾT THÚC HỌC PHẦN

KHOA TIẾNG ANH Tên HP: PHƯƠNG PHÁP NCKH (SP)
Mã HP: ENGL1400 Số tín chỉ: 4
Đề chính thức Học kỳ: 2 Năm học: 2021-2022
(Đề thi gồm có 2 trang) Ngày thi: 24/06/2022
Thời gian làm bài: 90’

PART 1 (2 marks): Write a report describing the research problem and purpose for the following research
question: What are the effects of pre-reading strategies on students’ reading performance?

PART 2 (2 marks): Revise the following reference list according to the 7th edition of APA.
Reference list:
1. Frodesen, J. (2001). Grammar in Writing (pp. 233-248). In Munica, M.C. (ed). Teaching English
as a Second or Foreign Language. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher.
2. Logan Fiorella. (2013). The Relative Benefits of Learning by Teaching and Teaching Expectancy.
Contemporary Educational Psychology 38 (2013) pp. 281–288
3. Martin, P. (2008). Learning by Teaching. [Online]. Retrieved 12th 2013 from:
http://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/learningbyteaching.
4. Morrow, K. (1981). Communication in the Classroom: Applications and Methods for
Communicative Approach. Essex: Longman.
5. Nunan, D. (2006). Task-based language teaching in the Asia context: Defining ‘task’. Asian EFL
journal, 8(3), Article 1. Retrieved on July 19th 2013 from: http://www.asian-efl-
journal.com/Sept_06_dn.php.

PART 3 (2 marks): In an experiment of two ways to teach reading comprehension skills to adult, the
number of students who improved or did not improve were:
Problem-solving Analytic
method method
+ Improved 64 32
–Improved 31 15
Can we reject the null hypothesis of no difference at an .05 level? Write a report.

PART 4 (2 marks): The researcher wants to find out if there is any correlation between aptitude and
achievement in language learning. Use Pearson Product Moment Correlation to check and write a
report. Remember to show the process of plugging numbers into the formula for r below.

Aptitude Achievement
10 20
25 10
20 30
30 30
10 80
40 80
50 50
60 30

1
 N (å XY ) - (å X )(å Y )
r =
[ N å X 2 - (å X ) 2 ][ N å Y 2 - (å Y ) 2 ]

PART 5 (2 marks): The researcher wanted to answer the following research question: “To what
extent can the process-genre approach affect students’ writing?” Data were collected and analyzed
with SPSS 16.0. From the SPSS output below, write a report.
Group N Minimum Maximum Mean Standard deviation
Control 25 1.4 8.6 6.712 1.4330
Experimental 34 4.6 9.0 7.706 0.8183

Levene's Test for

Equality of
Variances t-test for Equality of Means
Sig. 95% Confidence Interval
(2- Mean Std. Error of the Difference
F Sig. t df tailed) Difference Difference Lower Upper
Post- Equal variances
2.990 .089 3.371 57 .001 .9939 .2948 1.5843 .4035
test assumed
score Equal variances
3.114 35.408 .004 .9939 .3191 1.6415 .3463
not assumed

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