IMPROVE VIETNAMESE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION THROUGH PRE-LISTENING ACTIVITIES AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, VIETNAM

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The study was undertaken to improve students’ listening comprehension through pre-listening activities. The population of this study were one hundred and thirty (130) first-year students and eight (8) English teachers at Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vietnam. In this study, the action research was used. The data was gathered by survey questionnaire for students and English teachers. Weighted mean and frequency were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the students had improved their attitudes towards learning listening skill after the introduction of varied pre-listening activities. Moreover, teachers play an important role in teaching listening skill. Applying suitable pre-listening activities to teach students helped to engage themselves to purposeful listening activities as well as to take initiative in preparing knowledge related to business issues. Based on the findings of the study, some recommendation was suggested for further research.

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