HOW TO IMPROVE SPEAKING PERFORMANCE AT 3 CLASSES IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED STUDENTS

What are some factors affect speaking ability of the students at class 10ENGLISH1, 10ENGLISH2, 10A1 and 10A2? What are some ways to improve their speaking ability? (7) They focused too much on the grammar and could not talk naturally. (8) They often used note whenever they present.

Hanoi National University of education

Faculty of English

HOW TO IMPROVE SPEAKING PERFORMANCE

AT 3 CLASSES

IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED STUDENTS

SUPERVISOR: NGUYEN HONG LIEN, M.A STUDENTS: HOANG MY ANH & DANG HOANG HAI

CLASS: A – K64

REASON TO CHOOSE RESEARCH TOPIC

LISTENINGREADING SPEAKING WRITING

Speaking is generally perceived as one of the most fundamental

skills

Provide a look into Vietnamese

students speaking problems (in specific students

at the four mentioned classes)

• What are some factors affect speaking ability of the students at class 10ENGLISH1, 10ENGLISH2, 10A1 and 10A2?

• What are some ways to improve their speaking ability?

Our research has two questions to answer :

Research questions

Participants of the study

Instrument

Procedure for conducting the questionnaire survey

Procedure for conducting the class observation Procedure for conducting the interview

Data analysis procedure

The participants of the study are class

10ENGLISH1, 10ENGLISH2, 10A1 AND 10A2 at

High School for Gifted Students

class observation

interview

Instrument

Time Content Teacher’s activities Student’s activities

Everything observed, heard, and experienced during class

observation was carefully noted in detail in the following

observation sheet.

Procedure for conducting the questionnaire survey

Questionnaires

teacher

of English

fifteen minutes before the

classes began

twenty- minute break at the staff room

Procedure for conducting the class observation

Classroom observation sheet

Five weeks after the questionnaire survey had been administered

90 minutes

Procedure for conducting the interview

Questionnaire results

Observation results

Interview results

Questionnaire result

What are some factors that affect their speaking skill?

What are some problems that students in 10 English in Hanoi National University of Education – high school for gifted students have to encounter in learning speaking skill?

You are worried about making mistakes.

You are fearful of criticism or losing face You cannot think of anything to say You couldn’t brainstom your ideas to make a speech

You have no motivation to express yourselves

You speak very little or not at all

you are shy You speak Vietnamese

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180

their task

(4) They tended

to use Vietnamese when they discussed in groups and often

go off topic or chatting

(5) While the students were making

performances, the other students in class did not listen

attentively

(3) When the students were asked to work in groups, not all of them were participated and they often worked individually to complete the task

(6) Some student talked very well in a small group, but they still looked very nervous when they spoke in front

of the class

(7) They focused too much on the

grammar and could not talk naturally.

(8) They often used note

whenever they present

10) The students had to do a

lot of things in a forty-five

minute period

(9) Whenever the students made mistakes, the teacher stopped them and corrected

the mistakes

(11) The students were given too little time on listening sessions.

• (3) Lacking of confidence was one of the easiest noticeable problems.

• (4) The vocabulary of students was limited, and sometimes the students used inappropriate words

• (5)The students talked with too much interruption and spoke unnaturally

• (6)There were many off topic sentences

• (7) The intonation and the pronunciation were sometimes incorrect

Discussion of findings

What are some factors affect speaking ability of the students at class 10ENGLISH1?

Listening ability

Practice time

Teaching methodology

Confidence

Motivation

to speak

Ideas finding

What are some ways to improve their speaking ability?

Consider to apply teaching four skill for students included speaking, listening, reading and writing instead

of just teaching grammar

To teach students how to brainstorm and more group works to spread the knowledge so that students do not get

Improve the performance conditions

Help their students

overcome inhibition and shyness

Personalize and simplify the topics

in the textbook to make them easier

Skills should be included in tests and exams

Give students more opportunities to speak English in

class

Decide carefully when and how to correct the students’ mistakes

Teachers

Understand the importance of speaking skills

Practice speaking English outside the classroom more

often

Use English in the class instead of Vietnamese to make it a habit.

Students

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