VIETNAM NA 'LIONAL, UNIYVERSITY, HANOL UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST — GRADUATE STUDIES HO THI HIEN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PERCEPTIONS AND ACTUAL BEHAVIORS OF THE ‘TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE OF HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF LNDUSTRY ABOUT GROUP WORK IN SPEAKING LESSONS (PIRU TRA QUAN ĐIỂM VÀ HOẠT ĐỌNG THƯC TR CỦA GIÁO LIÊN VÀ SINH VIÊN KHO4 NGOẠI NGỮ - TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC CÔNG NGHIỆP TP HCM LẺ VIỆC SỬ DỤNG HOAT DONG NHOM TRONG GIỜ HỌC NÓI.A THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60 1410 HA NOI, 2011 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, IIANOL UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES HO THI HIEN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PERCEPTIONS AND ACTUAL BEHAVIORS OF THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE OF HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY ABOUT GROUP WORK IN SPEAKING LESSONS QUIÊU THA QUAN DLEM VA HOAT DONG TIT TE CUA GIÁO HIẾN VÀ SINH KIÊN KHOA NGOẠI NGỮ- TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC CÔNG NGHIỆP TP HCM VE VIEC SU DUNG HOAT BONG NHOM TRONG GIO HOC NO} MINOR M.A THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodolugy Code: 60 1410 Supervisor: T6 Thi Thu Huong, Ph. HA NOI, 2011 iv TABLE OF CC Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Table of conienis PARTE INTRODUCTION. Tho purposes of the study 2 3, Research questions.Methods of the study. Soups of the sturly.ẻ PART It: DEVELOPMENT 5 CHAPTER L: LIFERATURE REVIEW 1.
Communicative language (caching - - 5 1. Definitions of group werk 6 1. Advantages and disadvantages of group work. Advantages of group work l 2.2 Disadvantages of group work.
Teacher’s roles in carrying out group work. L How to organize group work in speaking lessons. Perception and behavÏor. eo meetin enennetnmnanentiemetnenne mn ĐT 1.
Definition of behavior. cence - ¬ - wev AD 1. Relationship belwcen perception and behavior im teaching and learning language. Background of the shuẩy,.
ane 2 cffkctiveness of this activity to improve English spcaking skill for the lcamaars, Morcovsr, the study also aimed at investigating the actual behaviors of the participants when group working in the real lessons to compare with their perceptions. Finally, the resulls of this study helped to facilitate the application of group work in teaching and leaming speaking to improve the effectiveness of speaking lessons at the FFL-HUL 3. Research questions a What arz FFI.-HUT leachers’ pereeptions of group work in English speaking el L.b What are FEL-HU] students’ perceptions of group work in English speaking class? 2a What are the teachers” actual behaviors when group working in linglish speaking class? 2.b What are the students’ actual behaviors when group working in English speaking class? 3. How to further improve the cffectivencss of group work in speaking Ïcssons at FFL-HUI 4.
Research methodology ‘Yo achieve the aims of the study, a mixed method combining both qualitative and quantitative styles was used 5. Scope of the study ‘The study only focuses on speaking skill. Instead, the researcher only intends to draw a bricf overview of the point of view and actual behaviors of the sachers who have experienced in teaching speaking and of the third-year students in the FLL-HUI about group work 6. Design of the study The study consists of thres main parts: Part I, Introduction, presents the rationale, purposes, research questions, scope, methods and the design af the study.
Part H, Development, is organized into four chapters. - Chapter 1, Literature review, reviews such basic concepts and knowledge relevant lo the study such as Communicative Language Tcaching approach, soma basic factors of group work as well as theory of perception and its importance in language teaching - Chapter 2, Methodology, provides an overview of the current situation of teaching and loaming speaking at FFL-HUL Saiupling, Instruracnts and Procedures for Dala collection and analysis are also presented in this chapter. - Chapter 3, Results, presents the research results, L PART A: INTRODUCTION 1, Rationale ~ Finglish has been widsly used in any arsas such as polilics, ecoriomics, taurism, electronics, telecommunication, eulture and science and technology. English is not only a means but also a key to accessing the latest achievements of science and technology.
‘Therefore, it is necessary for many Vicinamesc to have a good command of English to salisfy the growing needs in a developing eountry Hike Vietnarn - Baing a teacher of English at Faculty of Foreign Language Ho Chỉ Minh University of Industry (IIEL-LIUID), the researcher is well aware of the importance of using group work lo help cnergize the speaking class. Like many other (cachers working here, however, the researcher has also faced many challenges in organizing and managing group work during English speaking lessons. For instance, the noise created by students when they work in groups, student’s laziness, students’ usc of their mother tongue, cte. - in fact, there is a close relationship between one’s perception and his/her behaviors.
Yu (2004) stated that teachers’ perceptions "construct" their practices, which in tum, fcad lo whalaver progress both the loamers and the Icuchors achicve. Practice and progress in language learning and teaching will re-construct teachers’ perceptions of L2 development. ‘Teachers need to reflect upon their own ideas and practices to be better informed. Dewey (1933) argued that toachors should be reflcetive-practitioncrs through questioning the beliefs and methods in their own experimental approach to schooling - psychology and sociology being tools or resources for the construction of new educational hypotheses to be tested againsl experience - To mcct the increased necds of teachers and students, at FFL- HUL the author of this study is determined to choose this area to do research on.
This study is intended to take a modest. contribulion Jo investigaling what the teachers’ and students’ points of views about group work activities and what they really do before, during and after this activity. T'he results of the study, hopefully, snhance the flexibility of using group work to crcate positive, dynamic and effective atmosphera in Fngtish spoaking (speaking) lessons, and more importantly improve students’ oral practice of English. Aims of the study ‘The firs! purpose of this study was lo cxamine teachers’ and studenls’ pereeptions of using group work to teach and learn English speaking at the FFL-HUI.
That is to say, the researcher aimed at finding how the participants at the chosen setting think about the 2. Description of the students at KEL, HUI. Description of the teachersaf, FFI.3, Description of the physical setting.ceeeeeesee croeu TỔ 2. Description of the subject matter - wn 16 2.
Design and data analysis - - 16 2. The student samphe. The teacher sample.TỂ CHAPTER 3: RESULTS: 3. The teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the best way to teach and leam speaking in class - 19 3.
The students’ feclings when they work in groups. The teachers’ perceptions of the appropriate time for each group work activity. The teachers’ and the stadents’ perceptions of prefeucd group THIÊTHỦETS,. The teachers’ and the students? perceptions of the most øppropriate nưntber oŸ membersin cach group - -.
The teachers’ and the students’ perceptions of the benefits and the weaknesses of group work for improving speaking skill - 23 L. The lenchers" and the siudents" peroeptions of the things should be done by the `. ‘The teachers’ and the students’ perceptions of the things should be done by the instructor during activily. The teachers’ and the students’ perceptions of what the teachers should do after activity 26 3.10, ‘The teachers’ and the students’ perceptions of the difficulties when carrying GIIE BTODD WOIK.
37 CHAPTER 4: MAJOR FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, 32 41. eessstiesssnneeeiessnveetssnisssansateaneannd2 2 cffkctiveness of this activity to improve English spcaking skill for the lcamaars, Morcovsr, the study also aimed at investigating the actual behaviors of the participants when group working in the real lessons to compare with their perceptions. Finally, the resulls of this study helped to facilitate the application of group work in teaching and leaming speaking to improve the effectiveness of speaking lessons at the FFL-HUL 3. Research questions a What arz FFI.-HUT leachers’ pereeptions of group work in English speaking el L.b What are FEL-HU] students’ perceptions of group work in English speaking class? 2a What are the teachers” actual behaviors when group working in linglish speaking class? 2.b What are the students’ actual behaviors when group working in English speaking class? 3.
How to further improve the cffectivencss of group work in speaking Ïcssons at FFL-HUI 4. Research methodology ‘Yo achieve the aims of the study, a mixed method combining both qualitative and quantitative styles was used 5. Scope of the study ‘The study only focuses on speaking skill. Instead, the researcher only intends to draw a bricf overview of the point of view and actual behaviors of the sachers who have experienced in teaching speaking and of the third-year students in the FLL-HUI about group work 6.
Design of the study The study consists of thres main parts: Part I, Introduction, presents the rationale, purposes, research questions, scope, methods and the design af the study. Part H, Development, is organized into four chapters. - Chapter 1, Literature review, reviews such basic concepts and knowledge relevant lo the study such as Communicative Language Tcaching approach, soma basic factors of group work as well as theory of perception and its importance in language teaching - Chapter 2, Methodology, provides an overview of the current situation of teaching and loaming speaking at FFL-HUL Saiupling, Instruracnts and Procedures for Dala collection and analysis are also presented in this chapter. - Chapter 3, Results, presents the research results, 42 Recommendations 3ó PART HL CONCLUSION.
Ö„43 References Apendix A- Teacher questionaire Apendix B- Student questionaire Apendix C- Observation sheet Apendix D- Collected data § Two questionnaires, one for teachers and the other for students were developed. ‘The former has 12 multiple — choice, open — ended questions; the later has 12 similar questions. The questions in the two questionnisires are mainly used lo explore the leachers” and students’ perceptions, or the way they think about, of using group work to teach speaking efficiently. Oral interviews were given aller the researcher had analyzed the results of the questionnaires for triangulation, The rescarcher carried oal the inlerviews with 10 students and 5 teachers, All of them are the memibers who did the questionnaires and randomly chosen.
The purposes of interviewing are to get clearer explanations for the choices in the questionnaizes 2.4, Procedure Data were collected and analyzed in the following steps - Delivering qucstionnaizes to the 10 teachers and. 60 third-ycar students at the FFL- HUI - Analyzing the questionnaires data by looking for and grouping the common and recurrent themes in the dala with the use of dusoriptive slatisties - Interviewing the teachers and the students to get further information for the data in the questionnaires, + Basing on the inlerviews and th questionnaires, identifying the conte is to observe inthe teachers’ and the students” actual classroom practice. - Collecting the data on the teachers” and the students’ practices via olass observations. Observation of 10 speaking lessons was made according le designed criteria.
- Analyzing observation data based on the observation scheme. - Comparing the resulls of acluat class observation with the leachers’ and the students’ perceptions reported in the questionnaires and interviews. In short, necessary issues relating to how to carry out the thesis were illustrated clearly in the chapler 2. We have decribed specifically the real situations of the context, participants as well as the method of collecting, analyzing the data, The following chapter will present ‘the major results of the study.
The teachers’ and students’ perceptions uf the best way to teach and learn speaking in class 3. The students’ feelings when they work in groups 2 cffkctiveness of this activity to improve English spcaking skill for the lcamaars, Morcovsr, the study also aimed at investigating the actual behaviors of the participants when group working in the real lessons to compare with their perceptions.
