INVESTIGATION INTO EXPRESSIVE READING AND STORY-TELLING ABILITY OF STUDENTS MAJORING IN PRIMARY EDUCATION AT UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF DA NANG

Abstract

Expressive reading and story-telling ability is a necessary activity for students and teachers majoring in Primary Education, for these are the basic skills that teachers use in the process of teaching Vietnamese Language, especially Reading and Story-telling subjects. However, results from a survey on the status quo of expressive reading and story-telling ability of students at the Department of Primary Education, University of Pedagogy, the University of Da Nang showed that the students' expressive reading and story-telling ability was still limited. When reading a work, the students could neither demonstrate its style and genre-specific features nor properly handle techniques for showing pauses, heights, lengths, intonations and non-linguistic elements. This can be attributed to the fact that prior to reading, the students were not aware of identifying textual factors, content, ideas, the basic tone of the work, techniques used in expressive reading and story-telling as well as the influence of their dialect accents. Besides, many students were still unaware of self-training to improve their expressive reading and story-telling ability. This forms a focus of our research aimed at proposing measures to improve expressive reading and story-telling ability of students at the Department of Primary Education in particular and primary school teachers in general.