An investigation into factors causing difficulties in studying English of English-majored students at a university in Vietnam

Abstract

The thesis "An investigation into factors causing difficulties in studying English of English-majored students at a university in Vietnam" was conducted to examine the difficulties that freshmen and sophomore majoring in English often met in learning English. As a part of the study, nighty English majored first-year and second-year in the three classes of English 17A, 17B, 18 at Tay Do University have been selected as the participants. In this study, the interview with three extended statements for English-majored freshmen and sophomore and a questionnaire with thirty-four closed statements for students are used as instruments to collect the data. The results of the study pointed out that some common errors about background knowledge, linguistic factors, learning methods, learning motivation, learning attitude, teaching method and study environment faced by English majored freshmen and sophomore at Tay Do University. Practical implications and potential recommendations for further research in similar areas are then suggested.