The study: Common errors of reported speech made by grade 11 students at Doc Binh Kieu high school, Kien Giang province

Aims of the study: Common errors of reported speech made by grade 11 students at Doc Binh Kieu high school, Kien Giang province to find out grade 11 students common errors in using reported speech; to suggest some solutions to help the students avoid these errors.
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The study: Common errors of reported speech made by grade 11 students at Doc Binh Kieu high school, Kien Giang province 1 INTRODUCTION There are six parts in the introduction. They are motivation for the study, aimsof the study, scope of the study, significance of the study, related previous studies andorganization of the study.1. Motivation for the study Today English is the language widely used in the world. English is not only thenational or official language of some countries, which have different cultures, but it isalso the international language of communication in many fields including science,technology, business, entertainment and so on. Since Viet Nam joined World TradeOrganization (WTO), the need for learning English has been considerably increasingamong Vietnamese because their proficiency in English can help them get good jobs.Therefore, learning English is very necessary. However, it is not easy to master this language. In order to become goodEnglish learners, besides proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing skills,they must use grammar properly although English grammar can be difficult. Numerousstudies show that the use of poor grammar in spoken and written statements reflectsnegatively on the speaker or author, and that people who use bad grammar are instantlyperceived as being less intelligent, less reliable or less trustworthy than people who useproper grammar. Consequently, it is essential for English learners to master grammar. English grammar includes a lot of points. One of them is reported speech.Reported speech is important but rather difficult because it involves a lot of elementswhich causes students to feel confused and make many errors. Making so many errorsof reported speech is not good because when someone reports incorrectly whatsomeone else has said, it is difficult for listeners to understand or it is even easy forthem to misunderstand, causing serious consequences. In addition, reported speechoften appears on tests in class, final tests and tests in the entrance exams to universitiesand colleges. If students do not master this grammar point, they may lose marksrelating to reported speech easily. For those reasons, the researcher decided to study thetopic “Common Errors of Reported Speech Made by Grade 11 Students at Doc BinhKieu High School, Tien Giang Province”. This study is aimed at searching for the 2grade 11 students‟ common errors and suggesting some solutions to help the studentsuse reported speech better.2. Aims of the study - To find out grade 11 students‟ common errors in using reported speech. - To suggest some solutions to help the students avoid these errors.3. Scope of the study The study is about common errors of reported speech based on the exercise theresearcher gives grade 11 students at Doc Binh Kieu High School.4. Significance of the study The study including the solutions suggested will help students avoid commonerrors of reported speech. Some solutions are suggested for teachers so that they canapply to help the students in learning reported speech.5. Related previous studies Many theses relating to reported speech have been studied. The research“Teaching Reported Speech” done by Dan Rej Regmi was about the major mistakesmade by the learners of Grade XII of Management stream. However, the researcheronly gave suggestions for teachers to teach their Nepalese students in order to helpthem understand and use reported speech precisely. In Vietnam, Le Thi Thu Quynh, student of Ho Chi Minh University ofEducation did the research “Indirect speech in English and Vietnamese: A comparativecontrastive analysis” in 2010. In this research, the researcher has pointed out basicsimilarities and differences in indirect speech between Vietnamese and English as wellas some major mistakes made by Vietmanese. However, the subjects were Vietnameselearners in general and the researcher gave a general suggestion instead of specific onesto help them avoid those errors. The suggestion was that Vietnamese people have topay more attention to grammar structure when they want to change an English indirectspeech into the direct one. 36. Organization of the studyINTRODUCTIONChapter 1 LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Definition of reported speech 1.2 Types of reported speech 1.2.1 Reported statements 1.2.2 Reported imperatives 1.2.3 Reported questions 1.2.4 Reported exclamations 1.2.5 Mixed types of reported speech 13. Changes of direct speech when turned into reported speech 1.3.1 Pronoun changes 1.3.2 Adjective changes 1.3.3 Tense changes 1.3.4 Modal verb changes 1.3.5 Adverb changes 1.3.6 ExceptionsChapter 2 METHODOLOGY 2.1 Research questions 2.2 Research participants 2.2.1 The researcher 2.2.2 The subjects 2.3 Data collection instruments 2.3.1 The questionnaire 2.3.2 The mini-test 2.4 Research procedure 2.4.1 The questionnaire 2.4.1 The mini-test 4Chapter 3 RESULTS, DISCUSSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 3.1 Results 3.1.1 Results collected from the questionnaire 3.1.2 Results collected from the mini-test 3.2 Discussions 3.2.1 The questionnaire 3.2.2 The mini-test 3.3 Suggestions 3.3.1 For the teachers 3.3.2 For the studentsCONCLUSION AND LIMITATIONSREFERENCESAPPENDIX 1APPENDIX 2APPENDIX 3 5 Chapter 1 LITERATURE REVIEW In this chapter, the theory of reported speech is presented including definition ofreported speech, types of reported speech and changes of direct speech when turnedinto reported speech.1.1 Definition of reported spee ...