VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES S4 th 4 tứ 44 ki th VŨ THỊ THUỲ .A STUDY ON THE PROBLEMS FACED BY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT NII CIMEU UPPER SECONDARY SCIIOOL, IN KINII MON DISTRICT, ITAI DUONG PROVINCE IN TEACTIING AND LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILT. (NGHIÊN CỨU NHỮRG KHỎ KHĂN CỦA GIÁO VIÊN VÀ HỌC SINH TRƯỜNG "T.P'T NHỊ CHIẾU, HƯYỆK HINH MON, TINH HAT DUONG TROKG VIEC DAY VÀ HỌC KĨ NẴNG NÓI TIÊNG ANH CUNG BIRN PRHAP KHAG PHUC) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 HANOI - 2014 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES S4 th 4 tứ 44 ki th VŨ THỊ THUỲ A STUDY ON THE PROBLEMS FACED BY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT NII CIMEU UPPER SECONDARY SCIIOOL, IN KINII MON DISTRICT, ITAI DUONG PROVINCE IN TEACTIING AND LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILT. (NGHIÊN CỨU NHỮRG KHỎ KHĂN CỦA GIÁO VIÊN VÀ HỌC SINH TRƯỜNG "T.P'T NHỊ CHIẾU, HƯYỆK HINH MON, TINH HAT DUONG TROKG VIEC DAY VÀ HỌC KĨ NẴNG NÓI TIÊNG ANH CUNG BIRN PRHAP KHAG PHUC) M.
MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Supervisor: Assoc. Nguyễn Văn Độ HANOI - 2014 DECLARATION Lhereby state that L Vu Thi Thuy, being a candidate for the Degree of Master of Arts (TEFL), accept the requirements of the University relatng to the retention and use of M.A Thesis deposited in the library In terms of these conditions, | agree that the origin of my thesis depositedin the library should be accessible for the purposes of study and research, in accordance with the normal conditions established by the librarian for the care, loan or reproduction of the thesis Hanoi, October 2014 Va Thi Thuy CHAPTER 3. Data mwiysis of eachers’ survey questionaire 3. data analysis of students’ survey questionnaire 32 CITAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS.1 Difficulties of teachers.
Difieultiss oŸ studenfs.1, Providing more intersting topic to encourage students” participation. Building a labil of speaking Rnglish for students in the 4. Fquipping leaching facil PART Dl: CONCLUSIO} 1. Conclusion 2, Limitations and suggestions for further research - 4Ð REFERENCES.
v strategics and classroom teclmiques and. activities far the to minimize those difficultics. Specifically, this rcscarch trics to investigate the potential sourecs causing the difficulties in teaching the skill of speaking and smmultaneously identity the specific problems of those sources respectively. Furthermore, some recommendations are made with the anticipation of helping English Language teachers improve the quality of their teaching the speaking skill.
Research questions The above aims can be realized through the following rescarch questions: 1. What are the difficuliies of the teachers and stadenis in teaching und learning English speaking skills at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School? 2. What are the most typical causes of these problems? 3. What should be done to help teachers and students at Nhi Chieu upper Secondary School ta overcome the problems? 4.
Scope of the study Though problems in teaching speaking exist in the four macro-skills, the researcher has chosen to focus on difficulties in teaching spealang skill to students at for the fact that mastering speaking is so central to language learning that when we refer to speaking a language, we often mean knowing a language. In addition, some recommendations for the teachers of English at the school to decrease those difficulties are also proposed. The study of difficulties, recommendations of other skills to ameliorate the quality of teachmg English skills would be beyond the scope of the study. Also, due to the researcher's limited ability, time constraints and narrow-scaled study, this study only involves the students and five teachers of English at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School.
Design of the study The study consists of thros parts PART L INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study Nowadays it is not daring to say that the ability to speak at least one foreign language 1s a necessity. “Language is arguably the defining characteristic of the human species and knowledge of language in general, as well as ability to use one's (first and, at least one other language, should be one of the defining characteristics of the educated individual” (sunan, 1999: 71). Leaming English is becoming a need that most students are aware of and that the society demands, especially in the ss of industrialivation and modernization in conection to the open door policy of Viet Nam.
We are living in the time of immense (ectmological inventions where communication among people has cxpanded way beyond their lecal specch communities. Therefore learning a second language has become a means ot keeping up with the pace of the rapidly changing world, Speaking seems to be the most important skill that should be paid attention to in the process of teaching and leaming. It is true for the students at Nhi Chieu High School where leamers are future citizens who leam English in order to be able to communicate with the foreigners and to work as a good worker or staff’ But in fact there are a large mumiber of students who find it difficult to speak in igtish, When most of [ho students are required to talk in English, they often stand spo chỉ or they have to dink for a loug Gime about what they mitend lo say This has given me the desire to conduct “A stadv on the problems faced by teachers und siudenty at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School in Kinh Mun district, Hai Duong provinee in teaching and learning English speaking skills and solutions”. Aims of the study The sludy is couducled to find out the most lypical difficultics faced by teachers and students at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School in teaching and Jeaming English speaking skills and some recommendations including coping PART L INTRODUCTION 1.
Rationale of the study Nowadays it is not daring to say that the ability to speak at least one foreign language 1s a necessity. “Language is arguably the defining characteristic of the human species and knowledge of language in general, as well as ability to use one's (first and, at least one other language, should be one of the defining characteristics of the educated individual” (sunan, 1999: 71). Leaming English is becoming a need that most students are aware of and that the society demands, especially in the ss of industrialivation and modernization in conection to the open door policy of Viet Nam. We are living in the time of immense (ectmological inventions where communication among people has cxpanded way beyond their lecal specch communities.
Therefore learning a second language has become a means ot keeping up with the pace of the rapidly changing world, Speaking seems to be the most important skill that should be paid attention to in the process of teaching and leaming. It is true for the students at Nhi Chieu High School where leamers are future citizens who leam English in order to be able to communicate with the foreigners and to work as a good worker or staff’ But in fact there are a large mumiber of students who find it difficult to speak in igtish, When most of [ho students are required to talk in English, they often stand spo chỉ or they have to dink for a loug Gime about what they mitend lo say This has given me the desire to conduct “A stadv on the problems faced by teachers und siudenty at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School in Kinh Mun district, Hai Duong provinee in teaching and learning English speaking skills and solutions”. Aims of the study The sludy is couducled to find out the most lypical difficultics faced by teachers and students at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School in teaching and Jeaming English speaking skills and some recommendations including coping PART L INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study Nowadays it is not daring to say that the ability to speak at least one foreign language 1s a necessity.
“Language is arguably the defining characteristic of the human species and knowledge of language in general, as well as ability to use one's (first and, at least one other language, should be one of the defining characteristics of the educated individual” (sunan, 1999: 71). Leaming English is becoming a need that most students are aware of and that the society demands, especially in the ss of industrialivation and modernization in conection to the open door policy of Viet Nam. We are living in the time of immense (ectmological inventions where communication among people has cxpanded way beyond their lecal specch communities. Therefore learning a second language has become a means ot keeping up with the pace of the rapidly changing world, Speaking seems to be the most important skill that should be paid attention to in the process of teaching and leaming.
It is true for the students at Nhi Chieu High School where leamers are future citizens who leam English in order to be able to communicate with the foreigners and to work as a good worker or staff’ But in fact there are a large mumiber of students who find it difficult to speak in igtish, When most of [ho students are required to talk in English, they often stand spo chỉ or they have to dink for a loug Gime about what they mitend lo say This has given me the desire to conduct “A stadv on the problems faced by teachers und siudenty at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School in Kinh Mun district, Hai Duong provinee in teaching and learning English speaking skills and solutions”. Aims of the study The sludy is couducled to find out the most lypical difficultics faced by teachers and students at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School in teaching and Jeaming English speaking skills and some recommendations including coping ACKNOWLEGEMENTS First of all, I would ke to express my deep gratitude to Prof. Nguyen Van Do, my supervisor, for thorough reading, critical comments, invaluable suggestions, various sources of reference and precious corrections on my writing, Furthermore, I am grateful to his close guidance and generous help, which have been great encouragement to me during the process of writing up the thesis. I, hereby, would like to express my sincere thanks to lecturers of Faculty of Post Graduate Studies at University of Languages and Intemational Studies of Victrenn Natiomal Universily, Hanoi for thoiv intarcating Jessons and saygestions, which aroused the thesis for this study to be realized.
T also owe my sincere thasiks to teachers of English al Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary who have enthusiastically participated in my study Finally, my heart-felt thanks go to my beloved family who have encouraged and supported me in every stage of this study. strategics and classroom teclmiques and. activities far the to minimize those difficultics. Specifically, this rcscarch trics to investigate the potential sourecs causing the difficulties in teaching the skill of speaking and smmultaneously identity the specific problems of those sources respectively.
Furthermore, some recommendations are made with the anticipation of helping English Language teachers improve the quality of their teaching the speaking skill. Research questions The above aims can be realized through the following rescarch questions: 1. What are the difficuliies of the teachers and stadenis in teaching und learning English speaking skills at Nhi Chieu Upper Secondary School? 2. What are the most typical causes of these problems? 3.
What should be done to help teachers and students at Nhi Chieu upper Secondary School ta overcome the problems? 4. Scope of the study Though problems in teaching speaking exist in the four macro-skills, the researcher has chosen to focus on difficulties in teaching spealang skill to students at for the fact that mastering speaking is so central to language learning that when we refer to speaking a language, we often mean knowing a language. In addition, some recommendations for the teachers of English at the school to decrease those difficulties are also proposed.
