Some experiences to teach english speaking skill for students in grade 5 in điện biên 1 primary school

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THANH HOA EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT

THANH HOA CITY EDUCATION AND TRAINING OFFICE

2.1 Theoretical basis of the experience initiative 42.2 Situation issues before applying experience initiative 42.3 The solutions of implementation 6

1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The reason for choosing the topic

Nowadays the trend of international integration in many areas includingthe field of education has brought English up a very important position English

as a means of communication is the key to the treasure of humanity On theother hand, the wide application of information technology has made learningEnglish become urgent and indispensable So learning English of ElementarySchool students is particularly concerned by students, parents, all the teachers ofeducation in our country English has become one of the main subjects in thecurriculum of students

Learning and using of English require a diligent process of creativepractice of both learners and teachers Especially in the situation of educationreform as currently, teaching English in view of communcation methods iswidely supported According to this method, students have many opportunities

to communicate, to practise language and to participate in practical situations:Learning coupled with practising

Primary level English program has been implemented in all regions acrossthe country Innovation prominent feature of the content of this program is toprivide maximum opportunities for students to practise four skills of listening,speaking, reading and writing on the topics and situations, communicationcontents related to environments living at home and abroad The change infacilitating the teaching and learning of English in secondary schools becomesteaching living language instead of teaching words as many years ago However,

in practical English skills forged for students, teachers confronted with manydifficulties, especially listening skill forged Through my school in the city area,when students started to learn foreign languages, most of them were veryinterested in English, but eventually they fell tired of it Most of them are verybad at speaking skill It’s difficult for them to understand the content of an essay

or dialogue they hear

In my opinion, the purpose of learning English is to communicate it withthe speakers Speaking is the most difficult skill of all, especially for studentsliving in the countryside or in the remote region Through the years of teachingEnglish in elementary school, I found that English communication skills of thestudents are still limited To overcome this situation, I have researched someexperiences to improve the speaking skill of primary students The primaryenvironment is the fundamental place forming habits and communicationcapacities Frequent communication results in braveries for students withoutfears of making mistakes in public speaking As for students lacking proficiency

in the mother tongue language, they had a lot of difficulties in getting access to aforeign language Their timidity makes oral communication limited greatly.This

is why I choose the theme of experience initiative: “Some experience to teach

English speaking skill for students in grade 5 in Dien Bien 1 Primary School” I hope I will get more and more my colleague’s ideas which I can

complete my knowledge and my subject It can help my students improve thecommunication

1.2 The purpose of research

I am an English teacher in a primary school I constantly research, activityinnovate teaching methods to improve the quality of teaching and learning Iwrote this topic to share small experience with my colleagues to help studentsgrade 5 of Dien Bien 1 Primary school improve the knowlegle and quality ofEnglish in communication

- Find out the current status of teaching speaking skills

- Build the basic of teaching English and the methods to help students communicate

- Evaluate empirical results and draw up useful pedagogical lessons

1.3 The objects of research

- Some experiences to teach English speakinging skill for students in grade 5 in Dien Bien 1 Primary School

- Students of class 5D, 5E at Dien Bien 1 Primary school

1.4 The methods of research

With this topic I have applied the following methodology:

- Observe students

- Interview students

- Check and compare learning outcomes of students

- Study the textbook program, instruction manuals

- Discuss with experienced colleagues in professional meetings

2 CONTENT EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE 2.1 Theoretical basis of the experience initiative

Speaking skill is one of four key skills in teaching English to studentswith the ability to communicate quickly and practice to achieve the highestefficiency

Elementary students, who have just entered the first grade, find it verydifficult to learn how to speak and write Vietnamese well They face manydifficulties at school and most of them are weak at four skills listening,speaking, reading and writing Especially they are afraid of speaking English atschool due to many different causes such as being psychocogical shy, cautious,afraid of being laughed at when they are wrong There are too many students inthe class, teachers do not have enough time to help students develop theirspeaking skills for each student It is said good training will help to overcomethe limitations on less

Developing speaking skill helps students with more practice conditions inthe class, a foreign language class It is necessary to review old and thenintroduce new lesson All new knowledge is suggested gradually from the basicknowledge they have learned in the previous lessons Therefore, students aren’tafraid of making new posts

Through practicing speaking, teachers help students acquire knowledge in

an active way, overcome the inhibition of only certain classes of gifted studentsparticipate in speech, so it will attract all students in participating classes’sactivities including moderate or week children

Enhencing the ability of students to behave in different situations, sostudents are interested and boldly confident when they practice communicating

in English School will become fun, funky and highly efficient

2.2 Situation issues before applying experience

initiative a Advantages:

- Dien Bien 1 Primary School is located in the center of the city The school has a teaching staff who are young, fit, enthusiastic, capable of

teaching and always love their job Qualifications and standards are 100% Inthe field of education, my school is always interested, focused on teaching andlearning, always enables teachers and students to fulfill the duties and assignedtargets And the school has always received the active support of the localgovernment for many years, the school was rewarded as the advanced school inthe city.

- Administrators of our primary school always care about and createfavorable facilitities and profestional documents serving as teaching subjects:projectors, TV

-Most students prepare books and supplies for learning

- To the parents, they are also difficult to check or guide children to learn

a foreign language at home by subjects, which parents do not know They havelimitedly accessed to communicate in English outside school hours

In addition, English is a difficult subject, the knowledge is difficult buttakes less study time, and in the listening process they do not control what theywill be listened Words in tape are too fast, not familiar A lot of new words,word stress, sentence stress, intonation are very different and difficult forstudents to understand the content The questions is how we overcome theseweaknesses in order to contribute to improve the learning quality of speaking

skill, help students communicate more confidently in using English as a secondlanguage, be proficient in words, sentences, especially for students in as grade 5students in Dien Bien 1 Primary School

In order to solve this problem, the first semester of school year 2018

-2019, I had a small survey with two classes of grade 5 as follows:

Class Total Well- done (%) Completed (%) Uncompleted (%)

3 The solutions of implementation

Introduce the purpose of practice speaking English skill There are manyways to practice speaking English such as: Speaking in individually, in pairs or

in groups If students practice in pairs or in groups, teachers have to divide intopairs, speak in group prior to his students to practice with each other Teachersalso have the discipline required to practice

Practice speaking has to be systematic, ongoing and trould be followedthe guideline from easy to difficult

Depending on the situations teachers should prepare the appropriate form

of exercise for many pupils to practice speaking in each part of the lessons suchas

Speaking of freedom: Teachers creat contexts, themes for students topractice speaking in pairs or groups In this section teachers can use pictures,photos in and out of textbook or close topics to them and teachers should askstudents to speak in real situations

Speaking is creating opportunities for students to communicate closely toreal life Teachers should encourage students to follow the guiderline test, acceptmistakes They should not make pressure, they will bring severe fear of makingmistakes

Teachers should make maximum use of classroom time, creatingopportunities for students to be able to use the learning means efficiently.

Select a theme to develop, consistent with psychology, age and nature ofsuch period of daily life, or the people on movie watched on television, on thefavorite sport or someone they really, really love

Teachers can question the nature of evil to students argue for exciting part

Some solutions to develop speaking skill

Solution 1: Impvoving the sudents’ awareness about learning how to communicate in English.

Propaganda is the first method chosen to raise awareness for students

As you know, some primary students don’t pay more attention to learn andcommunicate English because it is only a optional subject in primary schools It

is also a difficult subject at school Therefore I always persuade my studentsabout the importance of communicate English If the students speak Englishwell, they can communicate English with the speakers, they can travel over theworld, they can be easy to make friends with the foreigners, they can chat withthe foreigners on facebook or zalo, they can be easy to find a good job or readnewspapers, stories or watch films in English Thank to my persuasion, mystudents can understand why they should communicate in English When theyunderstand the important role of speaking, they will be hard- working to takepart in communicating English effectively

Solution 2:Teacher should communicate in English much more than in Vietnamese in the classroom language classroom.

To help students speak English well, teacher should encourage students touse English as much as possible Classes should provide opportunities forstudents to communicate in a variety of forms: Teacher - Whole class, Teacher-Student, Student-Student The teacher is the person who guides the children tomake simple situations and subject – based conversations

Beginning of lesson:

- Good morning How are you?

- Did you have a nice weekend?

- Have you done your homework?

- Let’s play a game now, shall we?

- Are you ready?

Ask for repetition:

- Would you mind repeating ?

- Could you say it again?

- Pardon?

During English lessons, Teacher should speak English much more than

Vietnamese and use a mixture of the two languages.

Classroom control/ discipline v

Asking questions on the text v

Solution 3: Impvoving communication through using pictures

Nowadays, modern teaching methodology encourages the use of as manymedia, especially pictures as possible in classroom At the same time, theinnovation in English teaching at general education level demands that theschools should provide students with a good communicative skill in English.However, nowadays teaching English speaking at many primary schools as well

as the using of pictures in English speaking classrooms to motivate learnershaven’t been paid attention to Therefore, this aims at researching the use ofpictures in English speaking classes at primary schools and put forward somepractical suggestions to improve the quality of English speaking teaching andlearning I usually use the pictures to help my students practice communicating

in all of the lessons My students are very practical when I use the pictures, mystudents can be easy to talk and understand.

Unit 16: Where’s the post office?- Lesson 1- Part 5

To revise the structure: Excuse me, Where’s the ? Ask students look atthe picture, ask and answer questions about directions

Example :

S1: Where’s the cinema?

S2: It’s between the theatre and the supermarket

S1:Where’s the theatre?

S2: It’s opposite the stadium

S1: Where’s the stadium?

S2: The stadium is on the corner of the street

I always try to use the pictures to teach my students how to communicate

in the part “pre and post” for reading, listening and writing skills This helps mystudents speak English everywhere and everytime

This is a closed and educational topic for students to learn because ithelps them know how to take care of their family members and their friendswhen they have health problems

Unit 11: What’s the matter with you?- Lesson 1- Part

2 Teacher give model dialogues

A: What’s the matter with you?

B: I have a toothache.

A: You shouldn’t eat too much candy.

B: Ok I won’t , thanks.

A: What’s the matter with you?

B: I have an earache.

A: You should go to the doctor.

B: Yes, I will, thanks.

Give some pictures of activities then ask students to talk about where theywill go and what they will do this weekend Then ask students to retell theirpartners’ trip

Unit 11: Where will you be this weekend?- Lesson 2- Part 2

Example:

A: Where will you be this weekend?

B: I think I will visit HaLong Bay

A: How will you get there?

B: I will get there by car

A: Who will you go with?

B: I will go with my family

A: What will you do?

B: I don’t know I may explore the caves, swim in the see and build sandcastles.

Postcards:

This weekend A will visit Hlong Bay He/ She will go with his family They will get there by coach They may explore the caves play football and build sand castles They will eat sea food and buy some postcards for their friends.

Have students interview their partner about what his or her family

members do in their freetime Then retell the information in front of the class

Unit 13: What do you do in your freetime?- Lesson 2- Part 3

Example:

A: What do you do in your freetime?

B: I often read books

A: What does your father in his freetime?

Solution 4: Impvoving communication through working in pair and groups

With this method, it is necessary for students to develop their ability to learn in a positive, active and creative way They have to show themselves, find