VIETNAM NATIONAL, UNIVERSITY, IANGI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES HOANG THUY LINH A CASE STUDY ON VLETNAMESE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER’S GRAMMAR TEACHING (MỘT ĐIẾN CỨU VẺ VIỆC DẠY NGŨ PHÁP CỦA GIÁO VIÊN "TIỄNG ANH TIỂU HỌC TẠI VIỆT NAM) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Hanoi, 2014 VIETNAM NATIONAL, UNIVERSITY, IANGI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES HOANG THUY LINH A CASE STUDY ON VLETNAMESE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER’S GRAMMAR TEACHING (MOT BIEN CUU VE VIEC DAY NGU PHAP CUA GIAO VIEN "TIỄNG ANH TIỂU HỌC TẠI VIỆT NAM) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Supervisor: Dr. Duong Thi Nu Hanoi, 2014 DECLARATION 1 declare that the thesis entitled “A case study on Vietnamese primary school teachers’ grammar teaching” is the result of my own research and the substance of this thesis has not, wholly or in part, been submitted for a degree to any universities or institutions.
Tlanoi, August 2014 Toang Thủy Linh TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration Acknowledgement. Table of contents. Aims of the study bọ 3. Research questions 4, Scope of the study.
6, Design of the study. Wow Part B: Develupment. Chapter 1: Literature review wr 1. An overview of grammar and grammar teaching.
‘Teaching grammar using communicative approach Naw a. Communicative language leaming. Grammar in CIT classroom. Teaching grammar in CLT classroom.
The implementation of CLT in teaching grammar in Vietnam. ‘Teaching English grammar to young learners me 1.1, Characteristics of young leamers. Techniques to tcach grammar ta young leamers 1. Previous study on teaching grammar to young leamers.
13 teachers said they often get confused when trying to find a good way to explain a grammatical phenomenon to their students. While there are abundant researches studying vocabulary and the Cour skill teaching, how lo leach grammar effectively and attractively to young learners is definitely a big question whose answer needs to ‘be found as soon as possible Tike many other primary school, Anh Dung primary scliool requires students to learn English from grade 3 to grade 5. Using, the new textbook provided by Ministry of Education and training, students really like this subject because of its less stressfulness and fun aclivilies. However, grammar is sill ihe challenge thal teachers of Jinglish in the school often meet in their classroom.
Teachers’ grammar teaching is problematic, and, as the result, students” leaming is not effective Rooted fros (hat issue, we need to carry out a study entitled as “A case study an Vietnamese primary school teachers’ grammar teaching with practical aims and sensible solutions. Aims of the study ‘The study is implemented with, the specific aims as follows + Tounderstand teachers’ awareness of leaching English grammar Lo pomary students - To investigate the real situation of teachers’ English grammar teachmg af Anh Dung primary school, find out the positive factors and problems that affect the quaHly of teaching and learning English grammar al. Anh Dung primary school - Yo suggest some doable solutions to improve the quality of teaching and leaming English grammar at Anh Dung primary school. Research questions With clear aims listed above, the study is carried out m order to find out the answers to the following questions: - What do the teachers al Anh Dung primary school think aboul English grammar teaching in primary school? - How are the teachers at Anh Dung primary school teaching English grammar? ABSTRACT This paper deals with English grammar teaching of teachers at Vietnamese primary schools.
In Vietnam, English language in general and grammar in particular are no longer taught in traditional method because that did not give leamers ability to communicale i real life situations. Moreover, leaching grammar to young leamers, who owns special psychological and perceptional characteristics, requires much more effort from teachers in seeking new attractive teaching activities However, the application of moder method, which is known as Communicative language teaching (CL‘T) in real grammar teaching in primary schools showed some shortcomings when teachers do not understand what CLT actually means. As the yosult, majority of students found it difficult (o remembor and use sentence palierns they had introduced in class. Within the scope of this paper, only two teachers and a small number of students of Anh Dung primary school participated in the study Through different instruments such as teacher interview, class observation, and questionnaire for students, the underlying reasons for the above problem have been revealed.
Finally, this paper suggested some suitable techniques that teachers can apply in ther Hnglish classroom in order to improve the quality of grammar teaching in Vietnamese primary schools: teachers said they often get confused when trying to find a good way to explain a grammatical phenomenon to their students. While there are abundant researches studying vocabulary and the Cour skill teaching, how lo leach grammar effectively and attractively to young learners is definitely a big question whose answer needs to ‘be found as soon as possible Tike many other primary school, Anh Dung primary scliool requires students to learn English from grade 3 to grade 5. Using, the new textbook provided by Ministry of Education and training, students really like this subject because of its less stressfulness and fun aclivilies. However, grammar is sill ihe challenge thal teachers of Jinglish in the school often meet in their classroom.
Teachers’ grammar teaching is problematic, and, as the result, students” leaming is not effective Rooted fros (hat issue, we need to carry out a study entitled as “A case study an Vietnamese primary school teachers’ grammar teaching with practical aims and sensible solutions. Aims of the study ‘The study is implemented with, the specific aims as follows + Tounderstand teachers’ awareness of leaching English grammar Lo pomary students - To investigate the real situation of teachers’ English grammar teachmg af Anh Dung primary school, find out the positive factors and problems that affect the quaHly of teaching and learning English grammar al. Anh Dung primary school - Yo suggest some doable solutions to improve the quality of teaching and leaming English grammar at Anh Dung primary school. Research questions With clear aims listed above, the study is carried out m order to find out the answers to the following questions: - What do the teachers al Anh Dung primary school think aboul English grammar teaching in primary school? - How are the teachers at Anh Dung primary school teaching English grammar? TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration Acknowledgement.
Table of contents. Aims of the study bọ 3. Research questions 4, Scope of the study. 6, Design of the study.
Wow Part B: Develupment. Chapter 1: Literature review wr 1. An overview of grammar and grammar teaching. ‘Teaching grammar using communicative approach Naw a.
Communicative language leaming. Grammar in CIT classroom. Teaching grammar in CLT classroom. The implementation of CLT in teaching grammar in Vietnam.
‘Teaching English grammar to young learners me 1.1, Characteristics of young leamers. Techniques to tcach grammar ta young leamers 1. Previous study on teaching grammar to young leamers. Parlicipants and setting of the sludy 2.
Setting of the study. Data collection procedure 2. Data analysis procedure Chapter 3: Findings, discussion and suggestions. Findings and discussion 3.
‘the results of teacher interview and questionnaire for students 3. The results of class observation 21 3. Suggestions on improving teachers’ grammar teaching in Anh Dung Primary school 27 3.1, Raising teachers” awareness of teaching grammar in CLT 27 3. Improving teachers’ teaching methods 28 Part C: Conclusion.
Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study 39 References 41 Appendices. wl teachers said they often get confused when trying to find a good way to explain a grammatical phenomenon to their students. While there are abundant researches studying vocabulary and the Cour skill teaching, how lo leach grammar effectively and attractively to young learners is definitely a big question whose answer needs to ‘be found as soon as possible Tike many other primary school, Anh Dung primary scliool requires students to learn English from grade 3 to grade 5. Using, the new textbook provided by Ministry of Education and training, students really like this subject because of its less stressfulness and fun aclivilies.
However, grammar is sill ihe challenge thal teachers of Jinglish in the school often meet in their classroom. Teachers’ grammar teaching is problematic, and, as the result, students” leaming is not effective Rooted fros (hat issue, we need to carry out a study entitled as “A case study an Vietnamese primary school teachers’ grammar teaching with practical aims and sensible solutions. Aims of the study ‘The study is implemented with, the specific aims as follows + Tounderstand teachers’ awareness of leaching English grammar Lo pomary students - To investigate the real situation of teachers’ English grammar teachmg af Anh Dung primary school, find out the positive factors and problems that affect the quaHly of teaching and learning English grammar al. Anh Dung primary school - Yo suggest some doable solutions to improve the quality of teaching and leaming English grammar at Anh Dung primary school.
Research questions With clear aims listed above, the study is carried out m order to find out the answers to the following questions: - What do the teachers al Anh Dung primary school think aboul English grammar teaching in primary school? - How are the teachers at Anh Dung primary school teaching English grammar? 2. Parlicipants and setting of the sludy 2. Setting of the study. Data collection procedure 2.
Data analysis procedure Chapter 3: Findings, discussion and suggestions. Findings and discussion 3. ‘the results of teacher interview and questionnaire for students 3. The results of class observation 21 3.
Suggestions on improving teachers’ grammar teaching in Anh Dung Primary school 27 3.1, Raising teachers” awareness of teaching grammar in CLT 27 3. Improving teachers’ teaching methods 28 Part C: Conclusion. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study 39 References 41 Appendices. wl ABSTRACT This paper deals with English grammar teaching of teachers at Vietnamese primary schools.
In Vietnam, English language in general and grammar in particular are no longer taught in traditional method because that did not give leamers ability to communicale i real life situations. Moreover, leaching grammar to young leamers, who owns special psychological and perceptional characteristics, requires much more effort from teachers in seeking new attractive teaching activities However, the application of moder method, which is known as Communicative language teaching (CL‘T) in real grammar teaching in primary schools showed some shortcomings when teachers do not understand what CLT actually means. As the yosult, majority of students found it difficult (o remembor and use sentence palierns they had introduced in class. Within the scope of this paper, only two teachers and a small number of students of Anh Dung primary school participated in the study Through different instruments such as teacher interview, class observation, and questionnaire for students, the underlying reasons for the above problem have been revealed.
Finally, this paper suggested some suitable techniques that teachers can apply in ther Hnglish classroom in order to improve the quality of grammar teaching in Vietnamese primary schools: PART A: INTRODUCTIOX 1. Rationale English is spoken today on all five continents as a resull of colonial expansion in the last four centuries or so. The colonial era is now definitely over but its consequences are only too clear to be seen in the presence of English as an official and ollen nulive language in wany of the fonaer colonies.