Using group work to improve speaking skill of the first year students at the college of technology and economics in trade

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIOAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES TRƯƠNG HỒNG THUÝ USING GROUP WORK TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF THE

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIOAL STUDIES

FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES

TRƯƠNG HỒNG THUÝ

USING GROUP WORK TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT THE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

AND ECONOMICS IN TRADE

(Sử dụng hoạt động nhóm để cải thiện kỹ năng nói của sinh viên năm thứ nhất

trường Cao đẳng kinh tế-kỹ thuật thương mại)

MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS

FIELD: METHODOLOGY CODE: 601410

HANOI, 2010

TRƯƠNG HỒNG THUÝ

USING GROUP WORK TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT THE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

AND ECONOMICS IN TRADE

(Sử dụng hoạt động nhóm để cải thiện kỹ năng nói của sinh viên năm thứ nhất

trường Cao đẳng kinh tế-kỹ thuật thương mại)

MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS

FIELD: METHODOLOGY CODE: 601410

SUPERVISOR: TRAN HIEN LAN, M.A

HANOI, 2010

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TABLE OF CONTENT

Declaration i

Acknowlegements ii

Abstract iii

Table of contents iv

Part 1 Introduction 1

Part 2 The development of the research Chapter I Literature review 3

1 Theoretical background of speaking 3

1.1 Nature of speaking skill 3

1.2 Teaching Speaking skill in CLT Approach … 4

1.3 Communicative activities and features of communicative activitiies… 6

1.4 Problems with speaking activities 10

2 Group work .11

2.1 Definition of group work .12

2.2 Group size 12

2.3 Group work activities .13

2.4 The advantages of group work .14

2.5 Some problems and suggested solutions in utilizing group work 15

2.6 Successfully implementing group work: Tips 16

Chapter II The research 18

1 The context 18

2 The methodology 18

2.1 The participants .18

2.2 Data collection .19

3.3 Data analysis and reflection .19

3 Action research process 20

3.1 Cycle one 20

3.1.1 Initiation 21

3.1.2 Preliminary investigation 21

3.1.3 Hypothesis 21

3.1.4 Intervention 22

3.1.5 Data collection 22

3.1.6 Data analysis and reflection 23

3.2 Cycle 2 25

3.2.1 Initiation 25

3.2.2 Preliminary investigation 25

3.2.3 Hypothesis 26

3.2.4 Intervention 26

3.2.5 Data collection 26

3.2.6 Data analysis and reflection 27

3.3 Summary of the findings 30

Part 3 Conclusion, suggestions and limitations 31

1 Conclusion 31

2 Suggestions……… 31

3 Limitations……… 32

4 Recommendation for further study …… 33

References I Appendixes II

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ABSTRACT

This minor thesis focused on the problems of using group work in English speaking class and offered group work as a key to improve speaking skill of the first year students at the College of Technology- Economics in Trade

The two main mentioned problems were unequal participation and students' overuse of Vietnamese By setting rules and assigning role, the students have got more equality in distribution to group work activities And by encouraging students to speak more English in the speaking lessons, pre-teaching some new words and giving stricter regulations, the teacher has minimised the use of mother tounge in group work activities

At the end of the thesis, some suggestions for conducting group work have been given Some newly arising problems were also pointed out for further research

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