Researching the attitude of learning english of pupils at grade 3 in tan thoi primary school 1

CA MAU COMMUNITY COLLEGEFACULTY OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING RESEARCHING THE ATTITUDE OF LEARNING ENGLISH OF PUPILS AT GRADE 3 IN TAN THOI PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENT’S NAME: Pham Thi Nhu Y STUDE

CA MAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE

FACULTY OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

RESEARCHING THE ATTITUDE OF

LEARNING ENGLISH OF PUPILS AT GRADE 3

IN TAN THOI PRIMARY SCHOOL

STUDENT’S NAME: Pham Thi Nhu Y STUDENT’S NUMBER: CK1203A069 CLASS: English 2012

SUPERVISOR: Mrs Liet Thoai Phuong Lan

The researching mentions with the attitudes toward learning English of pupils

at grades 3 in Tan Thoi Primary School Besides, I also give the solutions toimprove English attitude of pupils in Tan Thoi Primary school

These above are going to show in my research in class 3A in course

2014-2015 of Tan Thoi Primary School

In the end of the research, I tell you the recommendation for furtherresearches

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract i

Table of Contents ii

List of Tables iii

List of abbreviations and symbols iv

Chapter I: Introduction 1

1 Background to study 1

1.1 Statement of purpose 1

1.2 Research questions 1

1.3 Significance questions 2

Chapter II: Literature Review 3

Chapter III: Methodology 5

Chapter IV: Results and discussion 7

4.1.1 Pupils 7

4.1.2 The attitude of teachers with English teaching method 8

4.2 The quality of studying English in class 3A of Tan Thoi Primary School 8

4.3 The attitude of students with learning English 9

4.4 The solutions 9

Chapter V: Conclusion 10

References 11

Appendices 12

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: shows us the results about pupils’ attitude in teaching English Table 2: shows us the results about Teachers’ attitude in teaching English

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

CD……….Compact discTTPS……… …Tan Thoi Primary School

In traditional teaching, pupils was required to acquire English grammarnowadays they are require to acquire various skills and language itemsincluding English grammar, English vocabulary and English pronunciation Inthe light of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), pupils are requirednot only to have good knowledge of vocabulary and eligible grammar, thefour language skills But how pupils in Primary School study, they really like

to learn English Many teachers of Primary Schools required their pupils weretoo high

Because of the above reasons, I decided to choose this topic: “The attitude

of pupils toward learning English in grades 3 at Tan Thoi Primary School”.

In this chapter, I will present some past research in the same fields Therewere many opinions on English learning attitude in the primary schools and inother corners, such as:

“English is without a doubt the actual universal language” said Carlos

Carrion Torres of Brazil in the meeting with students in the nationalPhilippines universities (2011)

In a study on how to teach speaking communicatively to grade 10 in TranPhu high school, Tran Thi Uyen especially mentioned to the communicationlanguage teaching method

The research showed 4 specific problems following concerning withdisadvantages from students:

+ Students lack motivation for communicative competence because theyseem to be over concerned with passing exams which rarely test forcommunicative competence

+ Students show resistance to class participation and the reasons maycome from their anxiety, laziness and unfamiliarity with communicativelessons

+ Students use Vietnamese during group work and the sources of thedifficulty are also anxiety and unfamiliarity with the communicative languageteaching method

+ Students are low of English proficiency

Jeanne Baird said “The English language is one of the most widely spoken

in the world English is used almost everywhere.”

In my opinion, English is the most popular language in the world andEnglish is important for us If you know English, you can get goods jobs,travel around the world Besides, learning English also has many difficulties.Studying English will help us have many experiences in our lives

CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, the focus will be on background information of the subject

of the study, the instruments used to collect data and the procedure of datacollection as well.

3.1 – Overview of the questionnaires:

3.1.1 – Questionnaires construction:

The questionnaires are focused on the pupils’ attitude in Tan ThoiPrimary school, the equipments, the teachers’ attitude and students’ attitude inteaching and learning English… Questionnaires consisted of 8 questions:

* From question 1 to 4, the requirement was choosing a, b, c The contentconcentrated on the review for pupils

* The teacher also chooses a, b, c in questions 5 and 6

* Question 7 was written to get the problems for the difficulties in teachingEnglish to grade 3 in Tan Thoi Primary school

* Question 8, teachers have proposition to help their teaching methodbetter

3.1.2 – Participants:

The 30 copies of the questionnaires were delivered to 25/265 pupils in TanThoi Primary school

3.1.3 – Purpose:

The purpose of the questionnaires was to understand pupils’ attitude and

teachers’ attitude in teaching and learning English of grade 3 And then, totake the solutions for teachers and students in Tan Thoi Primary school torepair better the teaching process as well as the studying process

3.1.4 – Data collection procedure:

Data collected by questionnaires for pupils (grade 3) in Tan Thoi PrimarySchool They will be synthesized, analyzed, and value data to support thearguments throughout the study.

Firstly, the 25 copies of the questionnaires were delivered to 25 students

of 6 different classes in Tri Phai secondary school on 1st – 5th of April 2015 After that, on thesame day, I get back 25 copies of questionnaires, whichwere full of answers

All of the data collected will be put into the computer: and MicrosoftWord 2003 will be used to analyze the data

3.2 – Interviews:

3.2.1 – Interview construction:

The interview consisted of 4 questions They were focused on thestudent’s attitude in learning English and the teacher’s attitude in teachingEnglish

3.2.4 – Interview procedure:

From 17th of May to 27th of May 2015, I directly interviewed 1 mainEnglish teacher who taught English subject of grade 3A in Tan Thoi PrimarySchool

CHAPTER IV: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Results:

4.1.1 Pupils

After I get back the questionnaires from 25 pupils of grade 3A in TanThoi Primary School From question 1 to question 4, I have the followingtable:

Table 1: shows us the results about pupils’ attitude in learning English

In question 1, it tells about the students like learning English The mostchosen option is “ A” with 96% of pupils who like learning English No onechooses option is “C”, that mean pupils feel like in learning English

In question 2, it tells about the pupils learning English The most chosenoption is “A” with 40% who easy leanring English The few chooses option is

“C”, that mean pupils very difficult leanring English

In question 3, 60% “A” pupils think that they are good at reading skill and30% “B” listening skill and 10% “C” speaking skill because pupils cannotmiss vocabulary

In qusetion 4,70% “C: normal” and 10% “B: good” because pupils not studygrammar and not vocabulary

And next number 2, they feel leaning English that is easy (40%),

4.1.2 The attitude of teachers with English teaching English:

Questions Number

ofteacher

Percent Number

ofteacher

Percent Number

ofteacher

Percent

Table 2 shows us the results about Teachers’ attitude in teaching English

In question 5, almost teachers think that English is necessary, so it should

be applied early at Primary Schools Because of helping pupils get acquaintedwith background knowledge

In question 6, teachers always prepare their lesson well at home to givethe student the necessary knowledge 50% questioned students answered thattheir teacher are very warmly in the lesson 50% have no comment Theyalways answer students’ question help students overcome the problem whilethey did not understand something such as Mrs To Thi Thuy ,on the whole,teachers are very enthusiasm, humorous, punctual,…

4.2 The quality of studying English in class 3A of Tan Thoi Primary School.

Many students in class 3A can not communicate English well Especially,

in the listening and speaking, they could not present their answers clearly andexactly After teacher played CD, many students can not get the specific ordetail information

In my investigation, 96% students responded that they like English.Besides, only one

4.3 The attitude of students with learning English.

Many students prepared their lesson before they have gone to school 25%questioned students answered that they are active in the lesson 25% are hardand 50% are lazy

4.4 The solutions:

I think that questioned students’ solutions are very useful and exact in theattitude of studying English Once more, I would like to repeat the questionedstudents’ solutions:

The quantity of students in a class must be small

The library should be widening

We should listen to CD, radio and communicate with English speakingpeople whenever possible

A lab room should be build

The teaching equipment should be replaced the new modern ones

Furthermore, I would like to recommend that Tan Thoi Primary Schoolshould have some native English teachers to teach English That is reallynecessary

CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION

Learning a language helps us to widen knowledge about culture, life toknow English that is a strong point Although the students are studying withthe warm teaching staff, they still have indifferently attitude in studyingEnglish The reason is that equipment are too old, size of class is notsuitable the shortage of English native teacher is also a reason Especially,the main is that students are lazy in studying and pupils’ pressure is too heavybecause teacher requires too high

So, I do this research to see the attitude of studying English at class 3A inTan Thoi Primary School Besides, I give some solutions to improve theseproblems

I think that the attitude learning of students will be better if these solutionsare implemented

I hope this research will help you have a lot in your studying

If someone researches this topic in the future, she (he) should notice thefollowing recommend:

+ The sample must be bigger than mine

+ The investigation time must be longer 1 month

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Jane Willis (1998) Teaching English through English Longman.

Barnhart, Clarence L (1968) The World Book Dictionary Clarence L

Barnhart 1968 Edition Published by Thorndike-Barnhart, Chicago, Illinois.

APPENDICES QUESTIONNAIRE:

Questionnaires for pupils:

1/ Could you tell me do you like learning English?

A like B dislike C No idea

2/ How do you feel learning English?

A easy B hard C Normal

3/ Which skill do you feel that you are good at most?

A Reading

B speaking

C Listening

4/ Do you speak English good?

A good B bad C normal

Interview for Teachers:

Questionnaires for Teachers.

5/ What do you think to apply teaching English for pupils of grades 3?

A necessary B unnecessary C Normal

6/ Do you often use games in your teaching times?

A Often B sometimes C Never

7/ What the problems do you teach pupils of grades 3?

8/ What do you propose to teach better?

Phục lục I

Câu hỏi :

Câu hỏi cho học sinh :

1 Em hãy cho biết em thích học môn Tiếng Anh như thế nào ?

Phục lục II

Câu hỏi cho giáo viên :

5 Bạn nhận xét như thế nào khi áp dụng việc dạy Tiếng Anh cho học sinh lớp 3 ?

8 Những đề xuất của bạn ?

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SUPERVISOR’S CONFIRMATION