Enhancing the efficiency of teaching 10th grade english learning skill

One of the four skills that English learners in general and high school students in particular often face certain difficulties in the learning process is listening skills.. Teaching and

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Subject ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF TEACHING 10-GRADE ENGLISH LISTENING SKILL

Author: Nguyen Thi Thu Van Position: Teacher

Research field: English

SCHOOL YEAR 2019

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1 Rationale

As we all know, the goal of English is to form and develop students' basic skills in English and the intellectual qualities needed to continue studying or going to life labor As a result, new high school grade, high school English textbooks are developed according to the same programmatic point of view, which is the thematic approach and promotes active learning methods of students

All four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing are concerned and coordinated in the tasks of class activities One of the four skills that English learners in general and high school students in particular often face certain difficulties in the learning process is listening skills In fact, to acquire English listening skills, foreign language learners must have a regular,

long-term listening process with different listening forms and content Teaching and learning English is not new but difficult for all high school teachers and students The teaching of high school English is only included in the program since students follow the new textbook program

By studying this topic, I would like to help teachers gradually overcome difficulties to conduct listening to English lessons more effectively, students are more and more active when receiving and comprehending knowledge of the lesson

2 Research duties

When researching this topic, I need to perform the following tasks:

1 Study English teaching and learning materials, listening and teaching techniques

2 Teaching and learning

3 Project colleagues, exchange and experience

4 Check and evaluate the results of students' handing, so that there is a reasonable adjustment

3 Research scope

The topic revolves around the issue of teaching and learning English listening of high school teachers and students in grades 10, 11 and 12 of Ham Rong high schools But the object of typical research that I boldly applied this topic is students of class 10A6

4 Research purposes

With successful research of this topic, this experience initiative will help teachers get the following experience:

1 How to organize a lesson to teach effectively

2 The steps used to conduct a lesson effectively

3 Instruct students to practise and train themselves in English listening skills and techniques

5 Research method

1 Observation method: I self-study and conduct study visits for my classmates

2 Methods of discussion: My colleagues and I conduct discussions so that

we can draw experiences for lessons

3 Experimental method: Teachers conduct teaching according to each purpose, specifically require some teaching lessons

4 Methods of investigation: Teachers ask questions to check and assess the content of students' lessons

PART II: CONTENT

1 Theoretical basis

1.1 Purpose of teaching

The purpose of teaching foreign languages is not to provide students with the knowledge of that language, but the ultimate goal of language teaching is

to teach students the ability to communicate in that language The ability of students to communicate is expressed through skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Students' listening skills are formed through a learning process in the English language environment In addition to studying at school, students must learn and practice listening through different forms and methods

Listening skills are the ability to use linguistic knowledge for listening purposes in English

1.2 The basic factors directly affect the effectiveness of listening lessons 1.2.1 Teacher

- With new and positive teaching methods, teachers play the role of directing and controlling students during school hours

- In order to conduct an effective lesson, teachers need to perform well the following basic elements:

+ Choose and flexibly use listening teaching techniques appropriately to each lesson content

+ Organizing and controlling classes, allocating reasonable time

+ Proficiently using facilities and equipment for teaching and learning to serve listening

+ Create appropriate teaching aids for teaching in all lesson units, the textbook program is the content of the listening lesson recorded in the cassette tape, and the textbook only records listening exercises In order to perform well these listening exercises, learners must listen to the contents of the lesson in the tape Moreover, teaching equipment is also a positive

means of innovating teaching methods, motivating motivation and stimulating learning

- The equipment needed for the subject:

+ Transceiver cassette tape

+ Recorder of readings and listen to textbooks

+ Painting pictures illustrating lesson content in textbooks

+ Self-created pictures and utensils

1.2.2 The student

In the relationship between teaching and learning styles, teachers are nests students, control, students self-mastering knowledge with their own manipulations, intellectual actions under the role of teachers In order for the lesson to be heard well, students need to have the necessary skills in listening in English

2 Current situation of Ham Rong High school

2.1 Advantages

Although there are objective and subjective conditions that directly affect the teaching process, we have overcome the shortcomings, step by step to improve the quality of English teaching hours to meet the demand and purposes of the new textbook program

2.1.1 On the teacher's side

The first step is to approach and use relatively good teaching techniques -teaching and listening techniques

- Being used and active with the way of organizing a listening lesson

- Flexible coordination of teaching techniques

- Creating many teaching aids suitable to the content of teaching periods, so many teaching lessons become lively, charismatic and highly effective

- Using modern teaching and learning equipment to better serve the listening process: cassette tapes, phototherapy

2.1.2 To the students

- Students are familiar with the subject of listening

- Many students have heard and recognized the voice of native speakers

- The majority of students have heard simple listening content

- Some students have formed skills and skills in learning

2.2 Drawbacks

2.2.1 Teachers

- There are still some teachers who encounter certain difficulties in

implementing listening and teaching techniques, in selecting techniques to

suit each lesson period, each stage of teaching period, and also afraid of

using or not proficient in teaching aids for listening lesson (sand machine,

light projector )

2.2.2 The students

- The motivation for listening in English is limited

- Many children have few opportunities to listen, have little access to mass

media, and can listen to English

- Some children are afraid to listen and speak in English, afraid to make

mistakes

- Students are not familiar with the speed of reading and speaking in English

tapes

2.2.3 Means of teaching aids

- Teaching aids for teaching are too few: pictures, radio

- Quality tape is not good

2.2.4 Specific investigation

- In the process of teaching, I myself undertake the 10th grade With the

consciousness, I have to study the characteristics of the learning situation of

the students while conducting lessons From the beginning of the school

year, I have guided myself to a specific plan and method to actively

investigate the learning situation of students who directly teach Through

investigation, I have found that most of the students have a poor vocabulary,

limited English listening and communication skills The survey results are as

follows:

N rate N rate N rate N rate N rate 10A4 46 1 2,1% 6 13% 20 43,4% 14 30,7% 5 10,8% 10A6 43 0 0% 2 4,6% 11 25,6% 20 46,5% 10 23,3% 10A10 44 0 0% 10 23% 19 43 % 5 11% 10 23% 10A12 46 0 0% 2 4,2% 14 30,7% 20 43,4% 10 21,7%

+ Inspire and attract students The method of teaching listening is regulated

by the content of listening, in other words, the content of the lesson is

listening to the selection, applying the methods of listening and listening

techniques Each teaching technique is suitable with specific forms of teaching (teaching grammar, teaching speaking, teaching writing) Equipment and teaching aids for listening is the use of equipment to support images of teaching and learning for foreign languages in general and English

in particular is considered a means of expressing a part of the main content

of textbooks

PART III: SOME ACTUAL SOLUTIONS TO PROGRESS A GOOD

LISTENING LESSON.

1 Plan a listening lesson

1.1.For teachers

In order for a lesson to be heard well, the teacher should take the following steps:

- Studying carefully the contents of instruction from textbooks, teacher books because textbooks are an important basis for teachers to plan teaching lessons The careful study of textbooks will help teachers organize and control teaching sessions to listen to the right focus and allocate time for steps and activities in a scientific way

- Study the required purpose of the lesson: Purpose, requirement of a lesson

is the goal that both teachers and students need to achieve after each lesson For listening lessons, the purpose of the lesson is to help students practice and develop skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing skills After finishing listening, students understand the main content of the listening and perform some language requirements or exercises

- Selecting and coordinating listening teaching techniques (Listening Techniques) in a flexible and appropriate way (based on the content of teaching, scoring, capacity of the class and stages in the listening process: Pre- listening, While - listening, Post - listening In each stage, there are specific listening techniques

- Good use of teaching facilities and equipment for listening lesson

- Before performing the teaching, it is necessary to prepare the machine well, clear band and battery to prevent power failure It is necessary to ensure safety when operating

- Considering the necessity, effectiveness, specific time for each stage

* Using illustrations:

+ Channel in textbook: One of the strengths of the textbook compiled under

the new program is that there are many illustrations Utilization to the extent maximizing the pictures in the textbook to help students understand the lesson is important

+ The illustration must have a close relationship with the lesson content + Need a reasonable and scientific lesson: Teachers need to plan clearly teacher activities, student activities, requirements of each exercise, student response options

+ Discuss and discuss teaching plans with colleagues

1.2.With students

The teacher asks students to be well prepared for the next lesson by asking them out of the system of open questions about the lesson that they are about

to learn so that students have time to think and explore the material

- Asking students to do some exercises related to the lesson content

- Encouraging and motivating students to be confident, proactive and creative to raise issues and questions related to the lesson

1.3 Implement well the process of teaching listening

The process of a listening lesson includes three stages: Pre-Listening, While-Listening, and Post-Listening This process not only helps students understand the lesson but also helps them use listening skills in real communication But the first problem is that teachers need to clearly identify the purpose of each specific lesson so that they can guide students to perform well in the next stages

1.3.1 Pre-Listening: (7 minutes)

(True / False Prediction, Open Prediction, Ordering, Pre-Questions)

This is the stage to help students navigate, think about the topic or situation before the students hear This period:

- Teachers should create a sense of preparation for the students by asking questions about the topic, asking students to observe the picture, read the words and guess what topics they will listen to, who is going to tell who

- Teachers can ask students to work in groups to guess the content about to hear through pictures or listening situations Maybe they say incorrectly to what they are about to hear but the problem is that they are interested before listening

- Teachers help them anticipate difficulties that may be encountered in new pronunciation or structure, background knowledge

- Finally, the teacher makes clear to the students how many times they will

hear and instruct the task request when listening (choose right, wrong, answer questions )

1.3.2 While-Listening: (20 minutes)

(Selecting, Delibrate Mistakes, Grids, Listen and Draw, Comprehension Questions)

This is the period when students have the opportunity to practice At this stage, the teacher sets out the types of exercises, asking students to do it Students may make mistakes at this stage so teachers need to correct students' mistakes and make correct choices

Teachers turn on the tape or read 2 to 3 times (if the content is difficult to do more times First help students with listening comprehension and listening content (pen down) Second time listening to the main information to complete The third time you listen to and review the exercise, the main goal of listening is to understand that students listen to the main content or detailed information and understand the attitude of the author The teacher lets the students listen to the whole lesson to get a general idea

as well as a lesson layout and homework, then can listen to each paragraph

to get the results or listen to the hard to claim places

PART IV: A SPECIFIC LESSON PLAN

Unit 2: School talks

The third period: LISTENING

A- Aims

+ Listen short dialogues about the topics of school activities

B- Teaching aids:

+ Cassette player and cassette tape

+ Picture in the text book enlarged

+ An extra board with a table

C- Teaching procedures:

Teacher’s activities Pupils’ activities Supplements

1 WARM-UP :

Before you listen (7’)

- Ask pupils some questions - Answer teacher’s

to warm up.

+ Have you ever held a

birthday party?

+ Did you enjoy the party?

+ Which subject do you like

best at school? Why?

- Ask pupils to work in pairs

to match a question in A with

the response in B

- Call a couple to read up

2 PRESENTATION:

While you listen (20’).

* Task1:

- Introduce the task, then ask

pupils to work in groups to

guess the questions and

answers about the pictures

+ Are you traveling to Ha

Long this summer and stay in

a hotel near the sea?

questions P1: + Yes, I have + Yes, I did P2: I like English because it

is an international language

- Work in pairs to do the task

- Read up

- Work in groups to ask and answer Picture- a:

+ Are they going on a holiday?

+ Do they stay in a hotel?

Picture b:

+ What are they talking about?

Teacher’s activities Pupils’ activities Supplements

- Ask pupils to listen to the

tape twice to match the

conversations with the

Picture c:

+ Are they at a birthday party?

What are they doing now?

Picture d:

+ Where are they now?

+ What are they doing?

- Listen to the conversations to do the

- Encourage pupils

to make conversations about their daily life

- Ask pupils to write the conversations first and the read up in front of the class

- Ask a pupil to give the

answer

Task 2:

- ask pupils to read the

questions carefully to get the

mains points of the questions

the guess the answers, write

the answers out

- Play the tape once again,

ask pupils to check their

answers and read up

- Call 2 couples to ask and

answer

- Ask some pupils to remark

Task 3:

- Ask pupils to listen to the

tape to fill in the blanks with

the missing words

- Play the cassette player

- Ask 2 couples to read up the

complete conversation

task

- Read the questions

- Guess the answers

- Listen to the conversations, answer the questions:

- Ask & answer in pairs

1 She is taking English 2.She’s in Miss Lan Phuong’s class

3 He is at the party

4 He plan to stay there for

a week,

5 No, she doesn’t, she travels alone.

- Correct and remark

- Listen to the tape to fill in the blanks

1- it here?; 2- very nice 3- big 4-

comfortable;

5- travelling ; 6- No, ;

7- alone 8- for a drink?

Teacher’s activities Pupils’ activities Supplements

- Call a pupil to correct the

mistakes

3 After you listen( 10’)

- Ask pupils to work in

groups to talk about the

problems they have

experienced at school

- Call 2 pupils to go to the

- Work in groups to discuss the talk to each other

- Talk to the class