VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES BA THESIS DIFFICUTIES FACING VNUA’S SECOND- YEAR ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS IN SPEAKING 4 LESSONS NHỮNG KHÓ KHĂN CỦA SINH VIÊN NĂM HAI CHUYÊN NGÀNH NGÔN NGỮ ANH TRONG CÁC GIỜ HỌC NÓI 4 Student: DOAN THI HAI YEN Student code: 621281 Major: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Supervisor: NGUYEN THI LAN ANH, M.A HANOI – 2021 VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES BA THESIS DIFFICUTIES FACING VNUA’S SECOND- YEAR ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS IN SPEAKING 4 LESSONS NHỮNG KHÓ KHĂN CỦA SINH VIÊN NĂM HAI CHUYÊN NGÀNH NGÔN NGỮ ANH TRONG CÁC GIỜ HỌC NÓI 4 Student: DOAN THI HAI YEN Student code: 621281 Major: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS Supervisor: NGUYEN THI LAN ANH, M.A HANOI – 2021 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority over the study project report titled "Difficulties facing VNUA's second-year English-majored students in speaking 4 lessons." submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of English Language degree Except where noted, no other person's work has been utilized in the text of the thesis without proper attribution. Hanoi, 2021 Doan Thi Hai Yen Approved by SUPERVISOR Date: …………………… i ACKNOWLEDGMENT This Thesis is the result of an end of a long way: the end of the English language Course. It would not have been possible without the participation and assistance of numerous brave and courageous people along the way. Thus I have to thank them all.
First and foremost, I'd like to express my gratitude to MA. Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, who served as my supervisor and instructor during this thesis. For the last months, she has been devotedly guiding me, advising me on what I should and should not include in this thesis; she is a guide to lead me so that I may complete my thesis flawlessly. Not only that, but she also imparted to me her experiences in the process of working.
Those are the extremely valuable practical knowledge that I learn in this process do a thesis, these practical things will be the luggage in the educational path that I have. Through this thesis study, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Vietnam National University of Agriculture's Board of Directors, the Department of Organization and Training, and the leaders of the Faculty of Education and Foreign Languages for allowing me to participate in the research for this thesis. I would like to thank my university teachers for creating the best conditions for my thesis. In particular, I wish to express special thanks to my parents for their support and the flexibility that they have enabled me, especially to my mother who brought me up and went so far, to overcome a lot of hurdles, including financial assistance, that they have provided me over the entire field training time.
ii I extend my gratitude to my teammates especially to my group study, with whom I shared my dark days and together we sort out academic and social problems. Lastly, specials thanks must be given to all students from K64, who joined my survey and interview for their feedback and attention during the survey with which I learned a good lesson about the difficulties of learning speaking 4, causes and suggestions, and to complete this thesis. I would like to thank all those who made this thesis possible and become a reality with their kind assistance. Thank you sincerely! Hanoi, July 2021 Doan Thi Hai Yen iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY.
ii TABLE OF CONTENTS. vi LIST OF TABLE AND CHART. viii PART 1: INTRODUCTION. RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. SCOPE OF THE STUDY. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY. DESIGN OF THE STUDY.5 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW.
REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS STUDIES. REVIEW OF THEORETICAL BACKGROUND. Definition of English speaking skill. The importance of English speaking skill.
General outline of a speaking lesson. What a good speaker does. Data collecting instrusments. The survey questionnaire.
Data collection procedures. 18 CHAPTER 3: FINDING AND DISCUSSION. The survey results from the questionnaire. Results from the interview.
Kinds of Student’s Difficulties in Speaking. Kinds of Causes of Difficulty in Speaking. Kinds of Student’s Efforts in Speaking. Suggestions on improving the students’ English speaking performance.
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY. 41 v ABSTRACT English is an international language common to all countries across the world. English is a vital item for everyday conversation to be learned and practiced.
In English, Speaking is one of the most important skills to be enhanced as means of effective communication, and it is regarded as one of the most difficult aspects of language learning. The focal point of this thesis is to find out the difficulties facing the second- year English- majored in speaking lessons, with the objectives focusing on some suggestions to improve their English skills in general and English speaking skills in particular. 60 students were participated in completing the questionnaires and 10 out of sixty students were interviewed to get to know more about their problems in speaking English class, the causes, and efforts they have made to improve their English speaking performance. The initial results revealed that the most reason for the students facing difficulties were two sorts of problems namely linguistic problems and non- linguistic problems.
Supported the finding, the hypothesis of the study was formed. Possible measures are proposed to tackle such challenges in helping students speak English more effectively. Practice makes perfect, encouraging the students to talk English, giving them plenty of chances to talk, using English at school, asking them to form English speaking environment, and applying solutions studied. The evaluation of the action plan revealed that the student's motivation significantly improved after the action plan implementation.
Supported this finding, further recommendations, and deeper implications are provided. vi LIST OF ABBREVIATION VNUA: Vietnam National Unitversity of Agriculture ESL: English as a Second Language EFL: English as a Foreign Language CLT: Communicative Language Teaching ELTIN: English Language Teaching in Indonesia vii LIST OF TABLE AND CHART Table 1. Difficulties facing the second-year English majored students in learning English speaking from their own perspective.1: The percentage of students faced the difficulty of Pronunciation .2: The percentage of students lack of vocabulary .3: The percentage of students grammart mistakes Error! Bookmark not defined.4: The percentage of students lack of confidence .5: The percentage of students lack of motivation .6: The percentage of students anxiety about speaking .7: The percentage of students shyness. 24 viii PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1.
RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY English is international language, which is often utilized by all of country within the world. In many country within the world, English is taught from the kindergarten until the university. English is that the most significant foreign language to transfer and find of data, science, technology, art and culture and establish international relationship. English is that the important thing to be learned and practiced for speaking in daily communication.
In English, there are four skills that ought to be mastered, they are: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Speaking is one of the foremost important skills to be enhanced as means of effective communication, and it's regarded one among the foremost difficult aspects of acquisition. Many language learners find it difficult to precise themselves in voice communication. They're generally facing problems to use the foreign language to precise their thoughts effectively.
They stop talking because they face psychological obstacles or cannot find the acceptable words and expressions. I realize that the second- year students have certain difficulties in speaking skill. What I said above could be example and it build up in my mind that problems of the scholars once they study speaking. For the above mentioned reasons, I would like to write my graduation paper about what has inspired me to practice my English as well as the method of teaching to speak with the aim of identifying DIFFICULTIES FACING VNUA’S SECOND- YEAR (K64) ENGLISH- MAJORED STUDENTS IN SPEAKING LESSONS, which is also the title of this Graduation Paper.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY This study is aimed at finding out the difficulties facing the second-year students’ English speaking performance, causes with the objectives focusing on some suggestions to improve their English skills in general and English speaking skill in particular. - Investigate the current situation of learning and teaching speaking in VNUA - Find out what difficulties the second-year students in VNUA meet when they learn to speak - Suggest some realistic and appropriate techniques to help improve the teaching and learning to speak in VNUA Within my reach of understanding, I would only like to go through the Literature Review of speaking, the common strategies to improve the students’ English speaking skill, then I would like to give the methodology of the study research, which is a research survey, to find out “Difficulties facing VNUA’s second-year English- majored students in speaking lesson. RESEARCH QUESTIONS The study is carried out to find out the answers for the following questions: - What are the difficulties facing VNUA’s second- year (K64) English majored students in learning speaking? - What are causes leading to difficulties in learning speaking 4 skill of the second- year (K64) students in VNUA? - What are solutions on improve to the problems? 4. SCOPE OF THE STUDY The VNUA’S second- year (K64 include of 132 ststuden: K64ENGA- 23 students, K64ENGB- 27 students, K64ENGC- 29 students, K64ENGD- 25 students, K64ENGE- 28 students ) English- majored student in speaking, 2 The researcher noticed that the K64 students had many difficulties and problems in learning how to speak.
So this graduation paper focuses on the survey and interview of students of K64 Based on the questionnaire of Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam written in 2019. The researcher make up the questionnaire to ask for the students’ opinions on difficulties facing them in speaking lessons and the causes behind those difficulties. Basing on the questionnaire results, the researcher gave out some suggestions on improving the students’ English speaking performance. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY In this study, the researcher tends to overview the difficulties the second- year (K64) English- majored students in VNUA face when learning speaking, causes and to suggest some possible solutions to the problems in order to help students learning speaking English better.
DESIGN OF THE STUDY The Graduation Paper is divided into 3 main parts: Introduction, Development& Findings and Discussion PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY 2. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 3. SCOPE OF THE STUDY 5.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 6. DESIGN OF THE STUDY PART 2: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. REVIEW OF THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1. Definition of English speaking skill 3 1.
The importance of English speaking skill 1. General outline of a speaking lesson 1. What a good speaker does CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 2. DATA ANALYSIS CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 3.
The survey results from the questionnaire 3. Results from the interview 3. Suggestions on improving the students’ English speaking performance 3. SUMMARY PART 3: CONCLUSION 1.
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 4. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY REFFERENCES APPENDEXES 4 PART 2: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS STUDIES Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and teaching. Despite its importance, for many years, teaching speaking has been undervalued and English language teachers have continued to teach speaking just as a repetition of drills or memorization of dialogues.
However, today's world requires that the goal of studying speaking should improve students' communicative skills, because, only in that way, students can express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules appropriate in each communicative circumstance.