(SKKN 2022) some solutions to improve the quality of learning phonics for students in class 3c – thiet ong primary school

BA THUOC CHAMBER OF EDUCATION & TRAININGEXPERIENCE INTIATIVE SOME SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LEARNING PHONICS FOR STUDENTS IN CLASS 3C – THIET ONG PRIMARY SCHOOL Performed by:

BA THUOC CHAMBER OF EDUCATION & TRAINING

EXPERIENCE INTIATIVE

SOME SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LEARNING PHONICS FOR STUDENTS IN CLASS 3C –

THIET ONG PRIMARY SCHOOL

Performed by: Pham Tuyet Suong

Job title: Teacher Organization: Thiet Ong Primary school Exerience idea in subject field (English)

THANH HOA, 2022

1 INTRUDUCTION 1

1.1 The reason of choosing the topic 1

2 CONTENT OF INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE 2

2.1 Theoretical basis of experience initiative 2

2.2 Current status of the problem before applying experience initiatives

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2.3 The solutions are used to solve the problem 5

2.3.1 5 basic steps to teach phonics that I have applied successfully at my school

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2.3.2 Teaching phonics through songs, poems 8

2.3.3 Teaching phonics through practical training 11

2.3.4 Teaching phonic through simple activities 11

2.3.5 Some tips to teach phonic successfully 12

2.4 Effectiveness of experience initiatives for educational activities, with myself, my colleagues and school

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3 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 16

3.2 Recommendations 16

1.1 The reasons of choosing topic

Nowadays, English plays a very important role in many fields, even in education because of international intergration trend English is a communication tool and a key that leads to the human treasure On the other hand, application of information technology widely that made learning English become necessary Therefore, it is the second language, a compulsory subject of many countries around the world This need for global English learning has shown that English is extremely important and essential for economic and social development at the national level as well as for every individual in the society

Teaching English for primary students has been cared specially by not only their teachers, their parents but also the education sector English becomes one of the most important subjects at school Especially in educational reform situation like nowadays, teaching English according to the communicative approaches is supported by many people Young learners have many chances to communicate with their friends, their teachers in order to practice language and take part in real situations actively and positively

The traditional method in teaching and learning English is prior care for words, phrases and grammatical structures only That is the main cause for why students can’t communicate with others in English after many years learning English Nowadays, teachers and learners focus on four English skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing that need in communication It is true that how to say something is as important as what to say It means that it is necessary for you to acquire standard correct English pronunciation if you want

to understand English speakers and want them to understand you The use of correct English pronunciation can do the opposite understand what he said, and also understand the opposite easier and more accurate.The language skills are closely related to each other; skills to support other skills Correct pronunciation, therefore, is not only good for oral skills, but also to understand better for listening However, the pronunciation is a difficult skill; without the guidance and regular exercise, positive, the progress will be virtually impossible Besides, there are so many different factors related to teaching, learning methods, the influence of the mother tongue or conditions interact with native English speakers also do not much affect the progress of learners From the above

reasons, I strongly research and write the experience initiative named "Some

solutions to improve the quality of learning phonics for students in class 3C – Thiet Ong Primary School” I decided to choose this topic with the desire to

help students learn English well and can communicate in English Language learners communicate not only corectly but also self confidently in lessons This

is more excited than they are willing to learn in order to improve their English pronunciation

1.2 Research purposes

To contribute to innovating English teaching methods in primary schools following the direction of promoting a positive, creative initiative of students, enhance individual coordinate activities with academic exchanges Formating and drilling skills to apply knowledge to perform the communicative process Create interest in learning English for students Language learners communicate not only corectly but also self confidently in lessons This is more excited than they are willing to learn in order to improve their English pronunciation but also help them strengthen and deepen knowledge further

1.3 Research subjects

With this research I focused on the Primary students at Thiet Ong Primary School, especially the students of grade 3

1.4 Methods of study

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

2 CONTENT OF INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE 2.1 Theoretical basis of experience initiative

Through a lot of research materials, as well as a combination of theory and practice, we need to rely on the basis of the following reasoning: Faced with a problem of teaching and learning that I think to figure 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 atmosphere language learning correct pronunciation of words in lessons.Much purpose of teaching phonics in a language class is not intended to make students capable pronounced 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 what they want

to talk 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 Due to the learner's native language affects the pronunciation teaching English to people who need to have a certain understanding of the sound system of the learner’s mother tongue to first guess the difficulties and advantages of learner’s pronunciation Phonics helps your child 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 Ministry of Education put on phonics lessons to Primary English

2.2 Current status of the problem before applying experience initiatives 2.2.1 General situation

Analysis of my school’s performance in teaching and learning pronunciation recent years showed that our average score in phonics had been consistently below that of like other schools in urban areas It was a situation that was of concern and motivated a thorough examination of the school’s approach to the teaching of phonics

Our school is a public primary school in a mountainous commune of Ba Thuoc district It is a large school with 767 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 In the accademic year 2010 - 2011, Ministry of Education and Training applied pronunciation International as the framework in the progam 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

2.2.2 Status of teachers

Many teachers in the Vietnam are 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 learners to communicate more effectively 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

In addition, teachers lack supporting tools and modern teaching equipments They only use laptops and small speakers during class time Therefore, students' learning of listening is limited

From those factors, there are some problems in teaching phonics for primary student 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 lean phonics effectively He or she should have creative and flexible approaches in using the methods of teaching phonics

2.2.3 Status of 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; the tests often have a few exercises with phonics In English class they have little chance to practice pronouncing Over time they lose their ability to communicate in English In addition, the limitation of students’ speaking skill of the have some reasons:

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

- Being lack of knowledge of English to communicate everyday

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

- Most of the students are from ethnic minorities, they have to use many languages: their mother tongue (Thai, Muong), Vietnamese and English While students are facing many difficulties with Vietnamese, they have to learn more English Accessing multiple languages at the same time is a great difficulty for many students, especially pronunciation

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 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 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 saying, less communicates and read the words As well as students mispronounce, this leads to make a marked accent and intonation wrong So to have good methods of teaching reading - speaking - pronunciation well, I have conducted a survey on the eighth of October 2021, the first term for 2021- 2022 school year to classify students

SURVEY Read the following sentences aloud:

1 Hello, Peter How are you?

2 Goodbye, Miss Hien

3 Bye, Mai

4 Is that Tony?

5 Yes, it is

The following table is the result of students in English in class 3C at Thiet Ong Primary School

RESULT BEFORE APPLYING THE RESEARCH IN TEACHING

Students Excellent Average Fail

30 2 students (6,7%) 15 students (50%) 13 students (43,3%)

This table shows the number of students pronounce the words weakly account for 43,3 percent

2.3 The solutions are used to solve the problem

According to the present situation in English classes at my school, pronouncing wrong 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 different 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 5 basic steps to teach phonics that I have applied successfully at my school

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 time 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 to teach pronunciation simply, especially for students in grade 3:

Listen and repeat It need 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 shows the picture discribe the possition of the tounge

For example:

In unit 2: “p” is pronouced / p /

Co nsonant /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 opene his mouth slightly ,turn inside out to create a sound /p /, pronounce fast Identify:

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/

Introduction: /æ/ is a short sound

Open your mouth wide

It's pronounced /æ/ /æ/ Identify the vowels which are pronounced /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 8: “th” is pronounced /ð/

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 Identify:"th" is pronounced / θ /

Students practise chanting

2.3.2 Teaching phonics through songs, poems

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

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