How to develop listening skill at tran thoi high school

After I have studied at Ca Mau Community College for 3 years, I get a lot of helpful lessons as well as experience, and now I have a chance for practice and writing a report. In this report, I got many difficulties. However, due to the knowledge I have learned and the supports from many others, I could completely finish the report.Firstly, I would like to give faithful thanks to my supervisor –Mr. Do Song Nguyen– who enthusiastically supported me in my report. Secondly, I would like to give a grateful thank to my teachers who have taught me as well as my classmates at English class 2012. Then, I would like to thank the headmaster of Tran Thoi high school who gave me a chance to practice and do the report, the students and the teachers who helped me a lot in the research. I would like to thank my friends who have offered good opinions for me to do the report.Finally, I would like to give a faithful thank to my parents. They were always my side and supported me of the mental and the materials so that I could finish the report. I am very grateful to them, and I will try to study better to get my dream.Thank you a lot

CA MAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE

FACULTY OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

HOW TO DEVELOP LISTENING SKILL

AT TRAN THOI HIGH SCHOOL

STUDENT’S NAME: Tran Thi Nhien

STUDENT’S NUMBER: CK1203A035 CLASS: English 2012

SUPERVISOR: Mr Do Song Nguyen

Ca Mau, May 10 th 2013

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After I have studied at Ca Mau Community College for 3 years, I get a lot of helpful lessons as well as experience, and now I have a chance for practice and writing a report In this report, I got many difficulties However, due to the knowledge I have learned and the supports from many others, I could completely finish the report.

Firstly, I would like to give faithful thanks to my supervisor –Mr Do Song Nguyen– who enthusiastically supported me in my report Secondly, I would like to give a grateful thank to my teachers who have taught me as well as my classmates

at English class 2012 Then, I would like to thank the headmaster of Tran Thoi high school who gave me a chance to practice and do the report, the students' and the teachers who helped me a lot in the research I would like to thank my friends who have offered good opinions for me to do the report.

Finally, I would like to give a faithful thank to my parents They were always

my side and supported me of the mental and the materials so that I could finish the report I am very grateful to them, and I will try to study better to get my dream.

Thank you a lot

Although I have studied English major branch for 3 years at Ca Mau Community College (CMCC), I still have recognized that English is a very difficult language to study, especially to kids At this time, I have a chance for practice and using the knowledge that I have learned.

I have written a topic about the real situation of learning English of kids so that I will discuss, evaluate, and then suggest some solutions for this I chose Tran

Thoi high school to be a practical place for my research with the topic: "How to develop listening skill at Tran Thoi high school” My report includes

main five chapters: Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results and Discussion, and Conclusion I hope that my research will be helpful and be received faithful comments from all of everybody.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i

ABSTRACT ii

TABLE OF CONTENTS iii

LIST OF ABBREVIATION iv

LIST OF APPENDICES iv

LIST OF TABLES iv

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Background to the study 1

1.2 Statement of purpose 1

1.3 Research questions 2

1.4 Significance of the study 2

Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 3

Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY 5

3.1 Time of the study 5

3.2 Place of the study 5

3.3 Procedure 5

3.4.Questionnare 5

Chapter 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 6

4.1 Result 6

4.1.1 The questionaire 6

4.2 Discussion 7

Chapter 5: CONCLUSION 8

REFERENCES 9

APPENDIX I 10

THE SUPERVISOR'S COMMENT 11

LIST OF ABBREVIATION

Ca Mau Community College CMCC

LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Questionnaire 19

LIST OF TABLES

Table : Table 1 student’s opinion 6

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study

Nowadays, English is a popular and indispensable language around the world People almost know English English is taught as a compulsory subject

at schools, including primary schools Besides, people find foreign language centers to study To many countries, including Vietnam, English is considered

as mother tongue, and serves a lot of things in studying as well as in working Even in the most development countries like the United States America, the United Kingdom people living there still need to learn English In Vietnam, the event of Vietnam joining the international organizations, of Vietnam's impressed development and regularly trading with foreign countries shows the reason why English is being concerned a lot However, a negative trend of

learning English that has been taking place in several recent years is to chase movements without any concern to quality Most people, most of the time,

take listening for granted, it’s something that just happens It is only when you stop to think about listening and what it entails that you begin to realise that listening is in fact an important skill that needs to be nurtured and developed Listening is perhaps the most important of all interpersonal skills Effective listening is very often the foundation of strong relationships with others, at home, socially, in education and in the workplace

After I have studied in CMCC for 3 years, I have a lot of helpful knowledge Now, my classmates as well as I have a chance for practice Unlikely others, I decide to choose Tran Thoi high school to be my practicing

place, and a topic that I have written is: “How to develop listening skill at Tran Thoi high school”

1.2 The purpose of research:

The purpose of this report finds out advantages and disvantages of students at Tran Thoi secondary school I can survey current situations and may offer any useful solution to all of everybody to improve listening skill

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1.3 Research questions:

+ Why must develop listening skill?

+ How to develop listening skills?

1.4 Significance of the study.

We can know difficult problems in listening at Tran Thoi secondary school

We can find out the methods to development English listening skill

CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW

In this chapter, I will present some past researches in the same fields There were many opinions on English teaching and learning, such as:

- Most authors consider listening a necessary skill.according to

“Castleberry & Sherpherd, 1993, p 36” – Effective listening occurs when there is a high degree of correspondence between the sender’s original message and the listener’s

Re-creation of that message

- Rather than really listening, many of us have learned to focus our attention on all the visible manifestation of listening We know much more about how to be polite than how to really take in the information that is being presented (Ellingson, 1992, p 41)

- Lewis (1989) explains that “repetition is the key to remembering”

- When you acknowledge the speaker, you demonstrate your interest and attention Your acknowledgment encourages the speaker and actually helps the speaker send a clearer message (Alessandra & Hunsaker, 1993, p 59)

- Listening is interpretive process through which listeners generate internal text which commonly differ from what they hear in unexpected ways (Murphy 1985) so that the listener has to put all his energy to communicate with the text

- According to Byrnes (1984) listening is a “highly complex problem- solving activity” As Byrnes said, listening is a complex activity It needs the listener focus to speaker It has been hypothesized that background knowledge and schemata plays a significant role in the comprehension of this highly complex problem- solving activity

- Employees with effective listening skills are more productive with new technologies (Sypher, Bostrom & Seibert, 1989)

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- Effective listening occurs when there is a high degree of correspondence between the sender’s original message and the listener’s re-creation of that message ( Castleberry & Shepherd 1993)

- Developing an awareness of the factors that affect listening ability has been suggested as one of two keys to improving litening skills ( Nichols & Stevens, 1957)

- When people improve their listening skills there is not only an increase in morale, safety quality, sale and productivity but also a decrease in unneccesary turnover and absenteeism ( Kausen, 1993, p 5)

CHAPTER III: METHODLOGY 3.1 Time for the study:

- From now April 20, 2015 to May 31, 2015

3.2 Place for the study:

- I had a direct contact and my research was done at Tran Thoi high

school

3.3 Procedures

I gave a questionaire The questionaire including 5 questions was delivered to 30 students at Tran Thoi high school I guided them how to do this questions and suggested them to choose the suitable answer Then, I collected the results and gave the data from student’s answer

3.4 Questionaires

There are 5 questions The question form is choosing A, B, C:

 Question 1: How does students’ attitude about learning listening skill?

 Question 2: How often do the students practise listening skill?

 Question 3: How do students study listening skill?

 Question 4: What do students do to develop their listening skill?

 Question 5: What are difficult problems of students in listening?

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CHAPTER IV: RESULT AND DISSCUSION

4.1 Result

4.1.1 The questionnaire:

After investigation, I collect result from 30 students at Tran Thoi high school The following table include the result of question 1 to 5:

Answers

Questions

Table 1 : Students’s opinion through the survey

In question 1, it tells about the students attitude about learning listening skill English.The most chosen option is “C” with 67% of students who lazy listen English The few chooses option is “A” 13%, That means students feel boring in learning english listening

In question 2, only 20% students always practise listening skill while 50% of students rarely practise listening skill and 30% of students sometime practise listening They said that they rarely practise listening skill because they don’t have much time

In question 3, a half of students study English listening on the internet, 33% of students learn English listening skill on the book and 20% of students learn English listening skill by other ways We can see that learning English learning skill is popular on the internet

In question 4, 40% of students think that they are good at hearing more

to develop listening skill while 33% of students think that learning many vocabularies and 27% of students choose other methods

In question 5, 37% of students think that the difficult problem of listening is lack of vocabulary while 50% of students choose the voice of native speaker and 13% think that hard to hear more words That means all most students think that the voice of native speaker is difficult problem in listening skill

4.2 Discussion

Through the above result, we can see that some disadvantages which students have to opposite Some students say that “although there are a lot of familiar words in listening lesson, listening not clearly” Some teacher shows that “because this is remote area, students haven’t English communicative environment to practice listening skill” But in my opinion, because the methods that students use in listening inappropriate In this survey, we can see those students’s difficult problems in listening and find out some methods to improve students’s listening skill Here are 9 tips to help you develop effective listening skills

Step 1: Face the speaker and maintain eye contact

Step 2: Be attentive, but relaxed

Step 3: Keep an open mi

Step 4: Listen to the words and try to picture what the speaker is saying.

Step 5: Don’t interrupt and don’t impose your “solutions.”

Step 6: Wait for the speaker to pause to ask clarifying questions Step 7: Ask questions only to ensure understanding.

Step 8: Try to feel what the speaker is feeling.

Step 9: Give the speaker regular feedback.

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION

In the globalization era, English is one of the important factors which people are interested in People wouldlike to learn English so that they can widen knowledge communicate with foregners, and gain their other purposes Therefor, most people, most of the time, take listening for granted, it’s something that just happens It is only when you stop to think about listening and what it entails that you begin to realise that listening is in fact an important skill that needs to be nurtured and developed Listening is perhaps the most important of all interpersonal skills Effective listening is very often the foundation of strong relationships with others, at home, socially, in education and in the workplace Thus, I decided to write a topic relating to this problem, and chose Tran Thoi high school to be my practical place

I have had a survey and showed the results of the kids' English learning situations at Tran Thoi high school Certainly, my report will get many inevitable shortcomings Therefore, I am actually looking forward to receiving ideas and comments from the teachers, the friends at CMCC as well

as others after referring the report

Finally, I hope that my research will bring any significance to teaching and learning English I also expect that kids as well as all of people will well know English, succeed and get their dreams in the future

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APPENDIX I

This survey questionnaire is aimed to get data collection serving for my research I need your support so that I can completely finish my report at Ca Mau Community College Many faithful thanks for your support!

Part I - Please provide your information:

1 Name:

2 Age:

3 Gender:

Part II - Circle your answer with option A, B, or C

1. How does students’ attitude in learning listening skill?

A. I extremely enjoy English

B. I rather like English

C. I dislike English

2. How often do the students English listening skill?

A. Always

B. Sometimes

C. Rarely

3. How students study listening skill?

A. On the internet

B. On the book

C. Other way

4. What do students do to develop their listening skill?

A. Hearing more

B. Learning many vocabularies

C. Other way

5. What are difficult problems of students in listening?

A. Voice of native speaker

B. Hard to hear many words