(SKKN 2022) some methods to help students of grade 3 prononunce english well

THANH HOA EDUCATION & TRAINING DEPARTMENT THANH HOA EDUCATION & TRAINING OFFICE INITIATIVE “SOME METHODS TO HELP STUDENTS OF GRADE 3 PRONOUNCE ENGLISH WELL” Implementer : Mai Thị Huệ

THANH HOA EDUCATION & TRAINING DEPARTMENT

THANH HOA EDUCATION & TRAINING OFFICE

INITIATIVE

“SOME METHODS TO HELP STUDENTS OF GRADE 3

PRONOUNCE ENGLISH WELL”

Implementer : Mai Thị Huệ Position : Teacher

School : Quang Thinh Primary school Subject : English

THANH HÓA, NĂM 2022

2.3.1 Here are 5 basic steps to teach pronunciation that I have 5 2.3.2 Teaching pronunciation through songs, poems 7

2.3.3 Teaching pronunciation through practical training 9

2.3.4 Teaching pronunciation through simple activities 9

2.3.5 Some tips to teach pronunciation successfully 10 2.4 The effect of initiative application 13

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 The reasons of choosing topic

English is an international language, playing an important role in the fields of diplomacy, economics, trade, science and technology The owner of the open and integration chapter of our country has created a need to use foreign languages, especially English, which is increasingly higher for all subjects in society

Therefore, the subject has been included in the primary education program, initially helping them become familiar with this language, creating favorable conditions for learning and understanding modern science, technology and cultural treasures rich of the world

However, learning English in primary schools in general and in Quang Thinh primary school in particular face many difficulties In Quang Thinh primary school, most of the students are children from rural areas, the area is far from the central region Therefore, the children do not have many opportunities

to interact with English For elesmentary students, reading standard Vietnamese, expressing is not an easy problem, so learning and speaking English is even more difficult In learning any language, standard pronunciation is always a top priority Pronunciation will help them to write properly, develop listening skills and help them to be confident when communicating

Since then, I have found it necessary to take measures to help students pronounce English well, as a basis for developing other subjects' skills So I

strongly suggest: "Some methods to help students of grade 3 pronounce

English well." I decided to choose this topic with the desire to help students

learn English well and be able to communicate in practical English but also confident in the lessons This is more exciting than they are willing to learn to improve their English pronunciation

1.2 The purpose of the research

To help students learn more about pronunciation rules in English and specifically recognize the importance of accent and intonation in English In addition, strengthening individual coordination activities with academic exchanges Formation of knowledge application skills to implement the communication process Creating an interest in learning English for students their sounds

1.3 The subject of research

I apply this experience initiative to the 3rd pupils at Quang Thịnh Primary school from September 2021 to April 2022, focusing mainly on the hours of practice and speaking of students in the English class program 3

1.4 The methods of the research

To research a topic, people often choose many different methods With this topic, I use the following methods:

1 Theoretical research method

I read the conducting material issues related to my research needs

2 Learning experience from my colleagues

Attend the colleagues’ lesson to follow their good method

3 Experimental matching method

4 Observation method

PART 2: CONTENT

2.1 Rationale

Through a lot of research material , as well as a combination of theory and practice, we need to rely on the basis of the following reason: Facing with a problem of teaching and learning that I think of figuring out a way to teach phonics, and the work that I have written to teach phonics method in a class Teaching phonics to help students create language learning atmosphere of pronouncing words correctly in English lessons Much purpose of teaching phonics in a language class is not intended to make students capable of pronouncing similar to the native because it is not practical, unless the school has a special talent and highly motivated The goal is to teach phonics to help students gain an ability to pronounce correctly at a certain level to be able to communicate in English with other people Phonics is a teaching method used to help children learn to read Phonics breaks down words into individual sounds and syllables and shows children how each sound fits together to make up a word Children taught with phonics must learn the different vowel sounds, consonants and regular rules of English grammar Because the learner's native language affects the pronunciation, English teachers need to have a certain understanding of the sound system Phonics helps your students learn to read and spell Without this ability, your child cannot be fully literate Words are like codes and phonics teaches children how to crack the reading code Phonics is therefore an important part of any reading development program That is the reason why Ministry of Education put on phonics lessons to Primary English

2.2 The situation of the problem

Analysis of my school’s performance in teaching and learning pronunciation for recent years has showed that our average score in phonics has been consistently below, so has that of other schools in rural areas It is a situation that needs to be concerned and motivated through a thorough examination of the school’s approach to the teaching of phonics

Our school is a public primary school in Thanh Hoa city It is a large school with around 620 students, ranging from 6 to 10 years old There are three

to four classes in most year levels, meaning that collaboration among teachers is extremely important to ensure consistency in learning programs Ministry of Education and Training applied International pronunciation l as the framework

in the program of teaching English for primary students After the first year of teaching the book 3 I found that most of the students can not pronounce the new words correctly They only focused on grammar and vocabulary and didn’t like

to learn pronunciation during the lesson

The organization of teaching English in primary schools meets the needs

of students in learning a foreign language elementary and accordants with the requirements of educational development On the other hand, learning English in primary school will help students get a certain knowledge of English to be able

to learn English better when they are at junior high school Pronounciation in the general case, particularly in primary schools has long been a problem Many students encounter new words they do not know how to pronounce Often teachers must use International Phonetic form and read to students Some times the students forget how to pronounce it late In practically, teaching at my school, I notice that some of them have the ability to read and pronounce very well Besides, there are some children who have difficulty in pronunciation They are afraid of the wrong director, afraid of friend’s laugh, resultingly they are shy to say, less communicate and read the words As well as students mispronounce, this leads to make a marked accent and intonation wrong So to have methods of teaching reading - speaking - pronunciation well, I have conducted a survey earlier this year to classify students The following table is the result of students who pronounce English in grade 3 at Quang Thịnh primary school Academic Year for 2021 - 2022

In the school year 2021 -2022, I was assigned by the school administration to teach English in the third block of Quang Thịnh Primary School with the number of pupils is 130 children Of which 55 boys and 75 girls From the first month, I conducted a quality survey on the pronunciation of the third grade students taught by me, the results are as follows:

After having students review and take the test of the pronunciation of the third grade students, Quang Thịnh Primary School, I obtained the following results.The results of the pronunciation test in September and the beginning of the school year:

Total number

This table shows the number of students pronouce the words weakly accounts for 31 percent This is figure is comparatively high.The reasons may come from students,teacher as well as the teaching facilities

2.2.1 About students

In fact, in the process of learning a foreign language, students often focus

on learning grammar mainly because the test requires the application of grammar, but the tests often have a few exercises with phonics In English class they have few chances to practice pronounciation Over time they lose their ability to communicate in English In addition, the limitation of students’ speaking skill has some reasons:

+ The old habit of learning English does not motivate students to communicate in English

+ Being lack of knowledge of English to communicate every day.

+ Having a few opportunities to practice English in the classroom with their teacher and classmates

2.2.2 About teachers

Many teachers in the Vietnam have faced with the challenge of teaching children to read and write in English, when the students have a heritage language that is not English and they are not yet proficient in English

Normally when teaching a foreign language, teachers often focus on teaching vocabulary, grammar or structure However, grammar is not the final result of the teaching and learning process It is only a tool to help learner to understand English structures But in fact, there are some differences between spoken English and written English Written English requires the accuracy statement of the structure, whereas spoken English needs the flexibility and the intimacy in communication

From those factors, there are some problems in teaching phonics for primary students at school However, in a number of causes, teachers and students can progressively overcome the difficulties Therefore, in the teaching process teachers must use some suitable techniques to teach students how to learn phonics effectively He or she should have creative and flexible approaches

in using the methods of teaching phonics

2.2.3 About the teaching facilities

My school has facilities of teaching and learning to meet the needs of specific subjects such as: projectors, the modern teaching equipment like Robot Teacher, Television, CD player, etc So the application of teaching phonics is quite effectively

2.3 Solution and implementation

According to the present situation in English classes at my school, wrong pronouncing still exists in all grades, especially in grade 3 To improve this situation, I would like to present the defintion of phonics, some methods of teaching phonics and elicit the stages of teaching phonics for primary student which I have researched and applied quite successfully at my school

Why is pronunciation important?

Pronunciation is about so much more than accent! Many of the features that play a role in pronunciation also are important in reading and writing.

* Understanding how to make specific sounds and how sounds are similar helps with spelling and decoding (sounding out) unfamiliar words This understanding

of phonetics can help teachers and parents understand kids' spelling and reading errors, too

* Understanding stress and intonation helps speakers be more understandable It also helps readers develop their reading fluency

Stress and intonation make a big difference in comprehension! Not only that, but they help us convey emphasis and feelings

There has been much confusion over this term Phonics is a method of teaching beginners to read and pronounce words by learning to associate letters

or letter groups (graphemes or phonograms) with the sounds they represent (phonemes) Students must learn to unravel the secrets of the code (in other words, decode) before they can comprehend the meaning of the written word

Phonics is seen to be an improvement on the previously used method of learning the approximate sounds represented by letters(b=buh) first and then blending them with other sounds (bl=bluh) to decode and encode words in written form This newer method attempts to eliminate the extraneous "uh" sounds which were unavoidable in the older method Children also learn strategies to figure out words they don't know It is considered an "analytical" approach where students analyze the letters, letter combinations and syllables in

a word; in an effort to "decode" the speech-sounds represented by the letters and the meaning of the text The advantage of phonics is that, especially for students who come to schools with large English vocabularies, it enables students to decode or "sound-out" a word they have in their speaking vocabulary

2.3.1.Here are 5 basic steps to teach pronunciantion that I have

Step 1: Introducing the sounds in the songs, rhymes or chants; teaching

new words using word cards, real objects, pictures,etc Focusing on the sounds

of letters and words

Step 2: Playing the recording a few times or let pupils listen to the Robot

Teacher; having them repeat each line of the Songs/ Rhymes/ Chants and clap the words containing the focused sounds

Step 3: Clap your hands to the beat while listening to the words that

contain the sound that need to be trained

Step 4: Organizing students to practice in pairs or groups to practice the

songs, rhymes or chants

Step 5: Calling on some volunteers to perform the Songs/Rhymes/Chants

at the front of the class and have the rest of the class clap the rhythm of the chant

However, for children I usually use methods to teach pronunciation in a simply way, especially for students in grade 3:

Listen and repeat It needs to be noted that in the classroom, the correct pronunciation of the teachers is not enough, it also needs the modern equipments such as speakers, audio visual, and teacher’s showing the picture which describe the possition of the tounge

For example

In unit 15 “p” is pronouced /p /

Consonant /p/

Introduction : is voiceless consonant sound which is created by two lips (bilabial), power-on (flosive)

How to pronounce: the first upper and lower lips close and then open the mouth slightly, turn inside out to create a sound / p /, pronounce fast:

Only consonants "p" is pronounced as / p / When it stands at the top of a word, the end of a word or after

In unit 5 I teach vowel “e”

Short vowel /æ/

It's pronounced /æ/ /æ/ Identify the vowels which are pronounce /æ/ “a" is pronounced / æ / in the following cases: In one-syllable words that end in one or more consonants

In unit 5 I teach vowel “a”

Short vowel /ʌ/

Introduction: Open your mouth wide by 1/2 compared to the pronounced/æ/ and give tongue back I dentify the vowels which are pronounced /ʌ/

In unit 16 “o” is pronounced /o/

In unit 14: “th” is pronounces / ð/

How many desks?

How many, how many,

How many desks are there?

How many, how many,

How many maps are there?

How many, how many,

How many lamps are there?

One, one, there's one.

Two, two, there are two.

Three, three, there are three.

Consonant /ð/

Introduction : sonant (voiced consonant), tip-dental, rubbing consonants (fricative)

How to pronounce: Similar to pronounce / θ /, using voice sound vibrations generated in the palate

2.3.2 Teaching pronunciation through songs, poems

No one can deny the important influence of the music and poetry on human life Most everyone loves music It's always show whether that person is happy or sad It appears everywhere, all the time to share joys or relieve sadness when we need to Futhermore, poetry-music can increase concentration, enhance memory, make people closer together, create motivation and joy in learning, makes people relax when they are depressed or stressful,

Because of the tremendous value that brings poetry to music, it has been used as educators useful tool in teaching And now the use of songs, poetry as a tool to support the learning of foreign languages is quite common Just a few tunes of the song, students can learn the culture of authentic language, vocabulary, grammar, listening skills, and a variety of other skills

Using songs and poems in class can make the classroom atmosphere becomes fun and dynamic Students will not feel stressed, even scared they may like to speak English in class solemn atmosphere It is this which will make them feel really excited and voluntarily participate in classroom activities

The songs, poems not only create excitement for student learning, but also contains elements of very rich language including pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar

The songs, poetry can help students to learn about pronunciation For learners of English in general and in particular primary school students, there’re some sounds that are very difficult to imitate because our mother tongue does not have this sound such as: / ð /, / θ /, / æ / , Therefore, you must learn how to pronounce inflexibly that can still not pronounced in your language The wrong pronunciation can change the meaning of the phrase, which will lead to communication results, because listeners misinterpreted the transmission of information Songs, poems can help them overcome this The melody of the song, the rhythm of the poem often repeat a similar sound When they hear many times, they will indirectly be told how to pronounce the sounds which makes you remember them and eventually the correctly pronounce

For example

In Unit 19 I have students chant the poem “Where are you?”

Where are you?

Where are you?

What's the weather like?

What are you doing?

What are your friends doing?

What are your friends doing?

In the park In the park

It's sunny It's sunny

I'm cycling I'm cycling

They're skating They're skating They're skipping.They're skipping.