i DECLARATION “I am TRIEU THI HUYEN TRANG hereby declare that the work presented in this Graduation Thesis is uniquely prepared by me.” “I also confirm that, the thesis paper is only prepared for my university requirements not for any other purpose. It“might not be used with the interest of the opposite party of the corporation.” _______________________________ TRIEU THI HUYEN TRANG ID: 97011501064 Course: 8 Class: 15DTA Major in English Language The Saigon International University Date submitted: …………………………………………. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS “During the implementation of this thesis, I have received much help from the people who have helped me.”Without them I could not have completed this thesis, so I wanted to express my deep gratitude to those who helped me.” “First, I would like to express our gratitude to the teachers of the Saigon International University who taught me and helped me throughout the course Special thanks to Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy of the University who provided constant guidance and very useful advice for me to complete this thesis.” “Next, I would like to thank to my classmates who share and help me during the study at the Saigon International University.
I also thank the teachers and students of Nam Sao Foreign Language center who have helped me in the process of surveying and data collection in this thesis.” “Finally, I really thank my family and friends who have shared, encouraged me during the learning process and the implementation of this thesis.” Thank you very much! iii LIST OF CHARTS Chart 4.1: Students’ awareness of the learning English Chart 4.2: Students’ interest in learning English speaking Chart 4.3: Students’ looking at difficulties of English speaking skill Chart 4.4: The most favorite skill of students in learning English Chart 4.5: Suitable level of English speaking skills teaching method for students Chart 4.6: How students feel about the English current method Chart 4.7: Students’ desire for teaching English Chart 4.8: Student’s think about activities applied during the hours of teaching English speaking skills Chart 4.9: Student’s favorite activities applied during the hours of teaching English speaking skills Chart 4. Students’ frequency of participation in speaking learning hours iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.2 LIST OF CHARTS. Significance of the study. Scope and limitation of the study.5 Design of the study.
Definitions of terminologies. Concepts of speaking. Characteristics of speaking. English teaching methods for elementary learners.
Review of previous works. Research works abroad. Domestic research projects. Description of the teachers at Nam Sao language center.2 Description of the pupils at Nam Sao language center.3 Face-to- face interview for teachers.25 FINDINGS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION.
Results from students’ questionnaire. Student’ personal information. Students’awareness of learning English. Students attitudes towards English speaking skills.
Students’ opinion about current English speaking skills teaching method.4: Student’ feeling activities applied during the hours of teaching English speaking skills 30 4. The results from interview for teachers. English speaking skills teaching methods applied at the Nam Sao English center:. The current English speaking skills teaching method with elementary learners.
Advantages and disadvantage of teaching English speaking skills to elementary learners. Activities your students like best in the process of learning English speaking skills 34 4. The time for studying English skills with elementary learners. The current facilities of the center.1 The method of teaching speaking skills for elementary learners at the “Nam Sao English language center”.2 The advantages and disadvantages when applying speaking activities to teach English 38 4.42 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.
Recommendation for manager staffs. Recommendation for teachers. Recommendation for students.53 A: SURVEY QUESTION FOR STUDENTS.53 B: INTERVIEW QUESTION FOR TEACHERS.58 viii ABSTRACT “The current study focuses on English speaking skills teaching methods for Elementary learners and the solution for teaching speaking skills at Nam Sao Language center.”Speaking “is one of the English skills which we should use the most suitable teaching methodologies.”In“Ho Chi Minh city, there are lots of English center with various methods to teach speaking skill for different kinds of students.”This research aims to describe the way in teaching speaking at the elementary learners of Nam Sao Language center.”The“subjects of this research are the English teacher and the Elementary learners of Nam Sao Language center.”This“research used observation, interview for teachers, questionnaires as the techniques of collecting the data.”This “paper aims to find ways to teach speaking skills to students at the elementary level and to offer methods and activities that are applied in teaching this speaking skill.”Teachers“should create more activities in the classroom to help students talk to each other in English and provide students with a variety of lessons or a plentiful of essential topics to be more interested in learning.”Students“must encourage and become familiar with everyday English speaking, encouraging students to speak English a hundred percent in class to create an effective English speaking environment.” Keywords: Teaching methods, speaking skill, teaching speaking, problems in speaking 1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale “In the 21st century, the countries all over the world are tending to develop basing on international cooperation.”The“English language has become crucial to the way we interact with the different people in the world; not being able to communicate in English imposes what seem to be formidable limitations on us.”With“English we are able to bridge cultural, economic, and even social gaps, in turn we are able to better understand and tolerate each other.” “Therefore, it is not just important but in fact crucial that the English language be learnt by all individuals.”However,“this also raised an issue that foreign language education should be taken seriously in which English is the most popular language in use.”Teaching“and learning English, thus, are very important and necessary because mastering English seem to be one of the best and the shortest ways for us to have a great deal of opportunities to reach the success of life.”English learners,“from elementary pupils to students, from workers to government employers study English with the interest and enthusiasm.”As“for Vietnamese students, especially the elementary learners have many difficulties in learning and practicing English speaking skill.”They“also fall into confusion when speaking English because of their lack of professional knowledge, confidence, and surely good learning methods.” “The goal of teaching speaking, surely, is to improve the oral production of the students.”Vietnam's“economy is growing, requiring human resources to know foreign languages, especially English, students should improve and promote their communication skill so that they can express themselves and learn to follow the social and cultural rules 2 appropriating in each communicative circumstances.”Speaking“for schools has not apparently been paid much attention.”Teachers’ role“is not only to create a warm and friendly classroom but also to provide students with effective and plentiful activities.” “These factors mentioned have aroused my ambition to carry out the study of: “English Speaking skills teaching methods for elementary learner at Nam Sao Language center” to study.
Significance of the study “Our world is becoming internationally.”The“majority of people find opportunity to interact with each other easily.”Thus,“communication is much needed and English paramount importance is chosen as a global language.”In“this claim, English speaking teaching method is very important.”So“we need have a suitable English speaking skill teaching methods to improving English communication for learners.”For“this purpose, we deal with the English speaking skill teaching method in Nam Sao English center.”The“result of this study may offer a new insight to teachers in evaluating many aspects of teaching and learning in different ways and bring new air to English classes. Scope and limitation of the study “The scopes of the study in this research are limited as follows:” 1. “This study aimed to document the teaching methods in speaking class of 5 teachers who are teaching at Nam Sao Language center with Elementary level. Investigating " The solution for teaching speaking skills at Nam Sao center’’, This study is expected to make certain contributions to the related populations including teacher teaching speaking skills, and researcher of the same subjects.
“The subject of the research will be limited to 30 elementary learners of two classes at Nam Sao Language center on February 28th, 2019 to May 21st, 2019” 1.4 Research questions “The current study tries to find answers to the following questions:” 1. “What methods are used in speaking class?” 2. “What are the advantages and disadvantages when teaching English speaking skill?” 3. “What are the solutions for teaching speaking skills at Nam Sao language center?” 1.5 Design of the study This study consists of three parts: Introduction, Development and Conclusion.
Chapter I: Introduction This chapter indicated the rationale for choose this topic, pointing out the aim, the scope and limitation as well as the methods of the study, and the research questions. This study focused on English speaking teaching methods for the elementary learners at Nam Sao Language Center Chapter II: Literature Review In this chapter, it provides some theoretical foundations on issues related to the definition of teaching communication language (CLT), characteristics of the teaching English speaking skills as well as the role of teacher and students in communicative language teaching, the role of speaking in language teaching and learning, indicate methods of teaching speaking and some problems in teaching speaking. Chapter III: Methodology This chapter carried out the research setting, the methodology, the instrument and the subject of the study. There also showed the results of the survey questionnaires and interview face to 4 face designed to find out the teaching methods that teachers and students at Nam Sao Language center have implied in teaching and learning Chapter IV: Findings and Discussion The specification of results showed information about the method of teaching speaking skills.
From issues, suggestions for methods to teach speaking skills to help elementary learners improve their speaking skills so teachers and students can choose the best way to learn and teach Chapter V: Conclusion and Recommendation This final chapter summarizes of research, and provides a way to teach speaking skills and activities that should be applied in the classroom and recommendations for teachers and students. 5 CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Definitions of terminologies 2. Speaking skill “Speaking skill plays an important role in learners’ learning process.”It“is considered an important criterion to judge learners’ achievement in learning a language.”They“often evaluate their success in language learning by how well they can speak that language.”Therefore,“if they cannot learn how to speak or do not get any opportunities to speak in the language class, they may soon get demotivated and bored with learning.”On“the contrary, if the teachers can apply interesting activities in the class, English lessons can become very funny and interesting.
Concepts of speaking “There are many different concepts of speaking by many different linguistics, however, most of them agree that speaking is very important to human communication.”Bygate“(1997) states that speaking is a skill which is very important and requires as much attention as other skills, in both first and second languages.”In“order to carry out most of their basic interactions and transactions, learners need to be able to speak, and express their ideas to other people.”He“also emphasizes that “interaction is the use of language for maintaining communication between participants” and “interaction skills are skills of deciding what to say, when to say it and how to say it clearly” (Bygate, 1997, p.”Therefore,“in learning speaking skill, learners are required to know not only how to produce specific points of language such as grammar, pronunciation, or vocabulary (linguistic competence or 6 grammatical competence), but also when, why and in what ways language is produced (sociolinguistic competence).” “According to Brown, Burns & Joyce, speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning concerning three periods: producing and receiving and processing information (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997).” “Chaney and Burk (1998, p.13) states that speaking is the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols, in many different contexts.” “Brown (1994) affirms that interaction is the heart of communication; it is what communication is all about, for example in the cases of sending messages; receiving them; interpreting them in a specific context; negotiating meanings; and collaborating to accomplish certain purposes.