EHOU tiểu luận TA PPLNCKH2 EN05

EHOU tiểu luận TA PPLNCKH2 EN05 Topic: An investigation on the effects of group work activities on motivating the first year students in speaking lessons. I. Rationale Teamwork activities play a very important role in improving students learning motivation, especially in speaking lessons.

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Topic: An investigation on the effects of group work activities on motivating the first - year students in speaking lessons

I Rationale

- Teamwork activities play a very important role in improving students'

learning motivation, especially in speaking lessons

- Teamwork activities enable students to improve and enhance their learning

motivation Students feel more excited and comfortable when participating

in group activities while learning speaking skills Since then, the results of their speaking skills are effectively improved

- This is a teaching method that needs to be applied in the process of

teaching English, especially speaking skills to improve learning

motivation for students

II Aims of the study

- This study aims at clarifying the effects of group work activities on

motivating the first - year students in speaking lessons

- The solutions to promote the role of group work activities on motivating

the first-year students in speaking lessons are also proposed in this study

III Research questions

- What are the effects of group work activities on motivating the first - year

students in speaking lessons?

- How to promote the role of group work activities on motivating the

first-year students in speaking lessons?

IV Scope of the study

Due to the limitation on the time and topic framework, this thesis mainly focuses on clarifying the theoretical background related to group work activities, speaking skill and the effects of group work activities on motivating the students in speaking lessons

V Methods of the study

During the process of doing the research on the topic "An investigation on the effects of group work activities on motivating the first

- year students in speaking lessons", the following research methods are used:

- Method of reading, studying and analyzing documents: This method is

used to analyze documents related to the concept of group work activities

on motivating the first-year students in speaking lessons

- The quantitative method: This thesis uses quantitative method to

investigate the effects of group work activities on motivating the first -year students in speaking lessons

VI Tentative design of the study

The study is designed by a survey with a random selection of 100 first-year students from Hanoi Open University, of which 48 were female and 52 were male

VII Outline of literature review

1 Key concepts

The definition of group work activities:

According to Richards (1983), group work is an essential activity because the kind of interactions produced in group activities has been shown to be

quantitatively as well as qualitatively different from that which goes on in the teacher- dominated lessons

The definition of speaking skill:

Speaking skill is the art of communications and one of 4 productive skill, that must mastered in learning foreign language Good speaking skills is the act of generating words that can be understood by listeners According to Nunan

(1991), success is measured in term of the ability to carry out a conversation in the target language

2 Related studies

There are many studies that have investigated the topic of group work activities

in teaching English, one of the typical studies is “An investigation in to the impacts of out of class English activities on the English major students’ achievement at Military Science Academy” writen by Nguyen Thu Hanh,

Pham Thi Hoai Phuong (2019) This thesis described an in-depth investigation of how out-of-class English activities can be seen to positively influence the

English major students’ achievement at Military Science Academy

VIII References

1 Joan., B (1997) Making Groups Work: Rethinking Practice Allen &

Unwin

2 Phillips, Helen, U (1957) Essential of Social Group Work Skill

Association Press, New York