Some useful activities to stimulate students in learning project lesson at high school

NGHE AN DEPARTMENT OF TRAINING & EDUCATION TEACHING EXPERIENCE TOPIC: SOME USEFUL ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE STUDENTS IN LEARNING PROJECT LESSONS ENGLISH 10 AT QUYNH LUU 4 HIGH SCHOOL..

NGHE AN DEPARTMENT OF TRAINING & EDUCATION

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

TOPIC:

SOME USEFUL ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE STUDENTS IN LEARNING PROJECT LESSONS ENGLISH 10 AT QUYNH LUU 4

HIGH SCHOOL

Field of study: English Methodology

THE PREVIEW OF THE STUDY PART 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1.Rationale

1.2 Aims and objectives of the study

1.3 Scope of the study

1.4 The mission of study

1.5 Methods of study

PART 2.THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

2.1 Project presentation

2.2 The keys about Project based learning

PART 3.PRACTICAL BACKGROUND

PART 4.METHODOLOGY

CHAPTER 1 INITIATIVE IDEAS OF THE ACTIVITIES

*CONCLUSION OF CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2.THE REPORT ON USING ACTIVITIES

1 Handing out request: investigation on students’ participation

2 Playing manager’s Roles in the Project Team

3.Evaluating the Project Presentation

4 Exchanging Evaluation ( for creating stimulation)

5.Giving feedback to encourage and stimulate students’ learning *CONCLUSION OF CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3: PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIMENT AND SURRVEY PART 5: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

*REFERENCES

*APPENDIXES

APPENDIX 1: Sheet of investigation on students’s participation APPENDIX 2: Questionaire of survey students’ stimulation

APPENDIX 3: Some photos of building - project activities in experimental class

PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1.Rationale

communicative language in the world It has been widely used in different fields such as economics, politics, culture, science, technology, education and tourism It must be strongly affirmed that English is one of the most important means of communication, the key factor helping develop in our society Therefore, teaching and learning English to use in daily life is more and more essensial Then, for the time being on, teaching and learning English has been playing a more important role in the purpose of human – development as the 2018 – education program Speaking is the most difficult in the four skills Reading, listening and writing can be conducted in progressof learning with a teacher or on learrner’s own, with books I think that the way of teaching by oral presentation will motivate student to use English in the spoken classroom At Quynh Lưu 4 High school, a large number of students are not capable of speaking English while they have such a long time to do tasks of the lesson Up to now, we have accessed English syllabus of Global Success for 3 ỷears, the teachers of English find it difficult to encourage their students to make oral presentation in the process of teaching English skills As in other schools, teachers of English in Quynh Lưu

4 are now approaching project - based learning to teach English to students They hope to provide students with a means of communication, namely English which

is vital for them to be successful in their job and to fulfill their social demands in the time of globalization.Therefore, it is really essential to know whether the project based learning has the good effects on teaching oral presentation skill to the 10 th graders of Quynh Lưu 4 High school With the aim to access the method

on teaching oral presentation through the Project - based learning, I would like to choose the topic: “Some useful activities to stimulate students in learning

further, to help improve the teaching of oral presentation at my school In this study, I wouldl ike to study on developing students’ oral presentation through Project - based learning in English language activities, hoping students feel confident to create their own generally communicative production during each topic lesson

1.2 Aims and objectives of the study

This study has been designed to investigate the use of oral English presentation for the 10th – grade students at Quynh Lưu 4 High school In general,

it has two purposes getting from learners’ work during lessons of a learning topic (of each Unit) Firstly, it aims at finding students’ attitudes towards the co- ordinating group work, team work Secondly, it is to investigate the impacts of oral presentations through project - based learning on the students’ performance in English lessons done in several forms such as presenting, reporting, short – film

scenes As a result, it is to provide the teachers with some suggestions to make best use of oral presentations in their teaching with a view to better their students’ speaking skill.Our objective is to show how project based leaning can provide students enough practice to develop oral presentation skill in speaking English language

1.3 Scope of the study

There are many different ways to motivate students to learn English, all these issues cannot be fully covered in this paper Due to the limited time and the length of the thesis, I focus on exploiting students’ attitudes toward the use of project based leaning (PBL) and its effectiveness in teaching the oral presentation skill The subjects of the study include about ninety 10th grader students of two classes: 10A2, 10A4 at Quynh Lưu 4 High school.Applying the range of the topic study, I would like to make class 10A2 the experimental unit and class 10A4 the control unit

1.4 The mission of study

- Do research on the theoretical and practical basis of teaching through guiding students in group work or team work

- Do research and propose the process of making project activities that must

be relevant with the competence knowledge of New English 10 Global Success so

as all get chances to join and build their overall group’s presentation

- Build and develop a set of criteria to evaluate students’ co-operation capacity through their share for overall group or team work

- Do Pedagogical experiment to test the scientific hypothesis of the sutdy

1.5 Methods of study

1.5.1.Theoretical methods

- Study relevant document on reliable sources for the topic: boo0ks, magazines, Website supplying the thesis of teamwork, groupwork, project management,…

- Study as the base data of Unit’s contents, theme contents of New English

10 Global Success for overall Project presentation

1.5.2.Methods of pedagogical invesstigation

Do survey and conduct class running on project presentation of groups

PART 2: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

2.1 Project presentation

oral communication skill It is where the presenter shows their knowledge on a particular subject The participant might choose the title or the teachers give it to

them In order to talk about it with their classmates after this the participant makes

a small research to get more information about this topic

2.1.2 Communcative langugage oral presentation

This type of presentation has a primary goal, which is to make the audience learn something new The speakers use in this type of presentation

an informative speech The aim of informative presentation is to be communicating with the audience and giving them much information in a limited time It is the most important elements that speakers can use, to the audience change their opinions and take a positive action about the speakers’ topic They will have confidence in their performance and deal with any reaction

2.1.3.The benefits of using oral presentations

Oral presentations have been shown to be extremely successful with respect to improving learners’ second language skills, and increasing their autonomy For example, Girard, Pinar and Trapp (2011) found that using oral presentations in their classroom lead to greater class interaction and participation,

an increased interest in learning, and noticeable improvements in their students’ communication and presentation skills For most language teachers the five major benefits to use oral presentations in the classroom are:

- They provide students with realistic language tasks

- They have value outside the language classroom

- They improve students’ motivation

2.1.4 Running class with oral presentation

presentation is challenging job for teachers Teacher also need to prepare their students for their task by groupwork, teamwork, then develop their interaction skill The teacher’s role in oral presentation is an a guide, organizer consultant resource person, and supporter this role involve also organizing into groups, preparing details, more information about the topic, helping them to learn how to conduct their presentation and finally evaluation the students performance

2.1.4.2 Students’role: Students, must be ready to join in a real world project format being qualified to participate in a team project, and has realistic expectations about the process Some students are more qualified, or ready to participate in project learning, than others Students should also have a desire

to gain experience Students should bring some technical, interpersonal, communication and creative thinking skills to the project They should be willing

to subordinate their personal preferences to the decisions of the team, and be willing to compromise in order to achieve a group production

2.2 The keys about Project based learning

Project-based learning has been investigated in a great number of studies

on the global scale over the last decade, but the application of this approach to teaching English as a foreign language in Vietnam is still not popular Project-based learning is a learning method which focuses on the learner; the teacher acts mainly as a facilitator and motivator PBL emphasizes learning activities that are learner-centered and usually integrated with real world concerns I also deal with the application of PBL in teaching oral presentation and suggest several language learning projects

To show more, we need some specific items as the keys to build a perfect project presentation.The most important skills in project management are just a few of the soft talents that a group doing project must take it in practice They are:

Leading a team is one of the most crucial aspects of a project manager’s work, and it’s a soft skill that not everyone possesses A competent leader can gain people’s trust, motivate employees, gain buy-in, make sound judgments, and accept responsibility for the team’s triumphs and mistakes.Leaders entails empowering others, being regarded as a powerful source of authority and information, and guiding and teaching others along the road it’s critical to recognize the distinction between leadership and management Being a leader entails more than just getting people to follow your orders Leadership entails empowering others, being regarded as a powerful source of authority and information, and guiding and teaching others along the road

2.2.2 Communication

Communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential in any profession, but project managers in particular A project manager is a person who acts as a link between all parties participating in a project, and their ability to transmit key information to all parties involved is critical to the project’s success

A competent communicator will be able to persuade others to share their vision, reach an agreement, and identify the best methods for delivering any given piece of information

2.2 3.Teamwork

A good project manager is not only a team leader, but also a team member That includes cooperating, collaborating, being pleasant to work with and communicate to, and treating others fairly In this job, ego isn’t allowed It’s rather simple to detect if you’re doing it correctly on this one Is your team well-coordinated? Do they have enough faith in one another to tell the truth, argue, and seek assistance? If they do, you’re doing something right

In conclusion, helping learners be motivated and get stimulation spirit , teacher should put them in status of co-operation This should make them involved

in on-going-stimulation, in short, the only way: doing project lesons

PART 3: PRACTICAL BACKGROUND

As mentioned above, in the part of rationale, a large number of students at Quynh Lưu 4 High School find it hard to use what they have learned to speak out what they have in mind in English but most of them are always in attempt to say something This is the reason why they have always wanted to use English In a survey made recently shows that nearly third – four of students want to use English

to express their ideas and they show strong attempt to practice English as well as they can if they are put in convenient situations On conducting the process of building a fulfilled project lesson, I have always been on the rules of language – creating communiation as following:

1 Rule 1:Being led by students when shaping the project

Explore what your students want to know and to do, within the confines of the course Enabling students to direct their own learning is a really effective way

to get them interested and engaged Offer them choice where possible in how they work towards the desired learning outcomes

For any community project to be successful, it is vital that local people’s needs and wishes are taken into account This must be based on collecting reliable information and insight from local people and community representatives Do not make assumptions about what will and will not work; this can lead to serious misjudgements and derail a project before it has even begun The first step was to arrange a brainstorming session with key community leaders and the students

We’d recommend allowing your lecturers to act as moderators posing the questions to community leaders and encouraging students to do the same in order

to understand key needs and challenges Without such guidance, students will not know how to run such a session and it may stall

2 Rule 2 Allowing students set their own learning approach

Give students a large degree of freedom in how they choose to meet the challenge posed – in this case, developing promotional media material Rather than judge students’ work as good or bad, instructors should encourage and guide them, providing constructive feedback This gives students the freedom and confidence

to develop their creative thinking

Our students chose to present the information in the form of powerpiont slides, short videos and role-play activities to do in project presentation As creators and presenter of a vast range of digital content via their mobile devices and social media platforms, our students were able to fulfill with this medium

3.Rule 3 Hosting site visits to bring the project to real life – class activities

Site visits are crucial in helping students understand the real-world implications of their project and its potential impact Depending on how your visit

is organised, it can give valuable insight on different perspectives or target audiences

Our students needed to understand the local way of life and culture in order

to design media content that was responsive to community needs and showed the true characteristics of the place The students were taken to sites in the guise of tourists to see the attractions and take part in activities, such as sharing household routes, do helpful actions for community or volunteer work along with their awareness of réponsibility These items allowed the students to gather information, pictures and interview insights from local people, real situation to develop their content of project

4.Rule 4.Create a win-win project

Using projects such as this one makes learning more fun, enhances student engagement, supports self-directed learning and allows learning outcomes to be measured in authentic contexts This particular project will also, hopefully, help the representatives of each group in turn trsst to show how they did project, it also promote their sustainable learning attractions.Whenever they find something they got from their lessons that makes them use in practice, especially using in real life, they confirm themselves, they seem to be the winner And afterall, they will be motivated and stimulated

In short, learing - based projects can provide great opportunities for students

to enhance their learning, get creative and gain practical experience, while also motivate and stimulate them

To make this problem in practical situation, teachers of English in Quynh Lưu 4 High school apply the activity for Project lesson in English 10 so that all students can get opportunities to try their competence For this purpose, I have given the limit of projects through topics of the Units in English 10 The general content of English 10 – Global Success in the syllabus of the 2018- education program is designed in 10 Unit with topic for each Every topic gives learners certain content of educational values I myself study quite carefully and consider the ability as well as the application in daily life of the learners, then do the research on topics of unit 1; unit 4; unit 6; unit 9.Themes for projects:

- Project 1:(unit 1): Talking about household routines sharing

- Project 2:(unit 4 ): Talking about Volunteering Work

- Project 3:(unit 6); Talking about Future job for the young

- Project 4:(unit 9); Talking about Environmental problems

PART 4: METHODOLOGY

CHAPTER 1 INITIATIVE IDEAS OF THE ACTIVITIES

The study aims to collect data about the use of the PBL in developing 10th grade students’ oral presentation To achieve that, I have tried to investigate how students of our school get the effectiveness of using project based learning on achieving better result in their oral presentation by doing their tasks We have also investigated how teacher judge the use of PBL as a proper means to develop their students’ oral presentation skill

Here I will share some ideas or may call useful activities that helped my students create good projects for their presentations, then for my report in this topic study It’ s they key for my success in making my students motivated via project – based lessons

are at the end of process division of a Unit To make the Project run well in the progress of learning, my students often get the request for doing project at the second or the third lesson Teacher create more details as the range in content of the unit so that whole class have proper content division to work in group Members of the group will play roles of the Leader, Secretary, the rest are the Suppoters Soon after receving the request, the Leader will take the whole- action duty, plan the schedule, idea, deliver specific part for Suppoters Every member partly share the whole work and follow the plan of team

product And they should follow to perform duties and support, combine other members ‘ ideas to create overall project productivity

+ Build a draft of project status report include everything knowledge regarding the status of the project This will be a good exercise that helps think exhaustively without leaving important issues and try their best for the whole

+ Edit the Draft to create the status report so as suit the requirements Edit and fufilify the information that suppoters have given Ensure that they have provided information regarding issues presented in the Project

Sheet of responsibility division submited by Group’s leader

4.1.2.Playing manager’s Roles in the Project Team

problems students face during Project buildingand offer assisstance, This stimulates students though the way they participate in the development of the group's activity plan One of the most important steps in teamwork to improve the team productivity is to hold discussions with each member of the team regarding their roles and expectations regarding their duties within the team Priority tasks assignments in Project duty are necessary Moreover, the time that the representative will devote to these tasks should be clear and equal so that everyone must have chance to attempt the challenge In addition, the quality and outcome of the expected work must be understood by each individual on the team It is critical

to give the team the freedom to work after the roles and tasks are determined This has a big role in increasing team presentation productivity

b Practical activities:

-Supply outcome of the work to make ideas understood by each individual

on the team Give the team the freedom to work after the roles and tasks are determined This has a big role in increasing team presentation productivity

4.1.3 Evaluating the Project Presentation

through their project work This is important, especially in the modern world where technology is evolving every second Learners don’t stop at putting a team together Learning opportunities must be provided as frequently as needed Presentation opportunities enables them to show their participation in the whole