MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ------ GRADUATION THESIS THE DIFFICULTIES IN USING BODY LANGUAGE IN MAKING PRESENTATIONS OF ENGLISH - MAJORED STUDENTS AT FFL IN IUH STUDENT NAME : Pham Thi Kim Yen ID NUMBER : 17029811 CLASS CODE : 2017- 2021 COHORT : To Nguyen Xuan Yen Pham Van Sang SUPERVISOR NAME : Ho Thi Hien, M. HCMC, 06/2021 MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ------ GRADUATION THESIS THE DIFFICULTIES IN USING BODY LANGUAGE IN MAKING PRESENTATIONS OF ENGLISH - MAJORED STUDENTS AT FFL IN IUH STUDENT NAME : Pham Thi Kim Yen ID NUMBER : 17029811 CLASS CODE : 2017- 2021 COHORT : To Nguyen Xuan Yen Pham Van Sang SUPERVISOR NAME : Ho Thi Hien, M. HCMC, 06/2021 MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ---✍--- Student name : Pham Thi Kim Yen ID number : 17029811 Class code : 2017- 2021 Cohort : To Nguyen Xuan Yen Pham Van Sang Supervisor name : Ho Thi Hien, M. Student’s declaration: Student’s declaration: I declare that this graduation report is entirely my own work and does not involve in plagiarism or collusion.
It also has not been accepted as part of a submission to another purpose elsewhere. I accept heavy penalty for any cheating or plagiarism. Date submitted : ……………………… Signed : ……………………… Word length : …………………words ACKNOWLEDGEMENT During my studies to complete my graduation thesis, I received a lot of assistance from my school, supervisors, and friends. Firstly, I would like to sincerely thank the School Board of Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City and the Faculty of Foreign Languages for creating favorable conditions for me to take my internship.
Secondly, I sincerely thank and express my gratitude and appreciation to my supervisor, Ms. Ho Thi Hien, who has imparted practical knowledge in my lessons and gave valuable and helpful advice during my research on the topic. Furthermore, she is always available to answer questions from our team. I appreciate what she has contributed to my team and me.
Thirdly, I would like to thank my group members, Nguyen Thi Xuan Yen and Pham Van Sang. They are genuinely excellent associates. Although this is our first time working together, we have worked well together. We discuss, support each other to solve minor problems.
They are the people who listen and make things simpler, which makes me feel very comfortable talking and discussing with them. They are willing to share their knowledge and experience throughout the research process. Besides, when I have problems with my graduation thesis, they will help me find the best solution. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to collaborate with such a fantastic team.
Lastly, I am grateful to all of the lovely first, second, third and fourth-year students majoring in the English Language in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City who contributed to help me conduct the survey and fulfil this research. In short, I sincerely thank all the people who are helping me to finish my graduation thesis. ABSTRACT Using body language in presentations is an essential skill for every student. Using body language in a presentation, on the other hand, will become increasingly difficult for English- major students learning foreign languages.
Everyone understands body language, but very few people know how to use body language in presentations properly. The thesis will study the difficulties in using body language to make English presentations-major students at FFL in IUH. Therefore, we have applied qualitative and quantitative methods to the study. As a result, the researchers collected data through questionnaires that they posted on Google Forms.
The study results will help researchers find out the difficulties of foreign language students using body language in presentations, thereby suggesting some reasonable solutions to the problem. With the belief and hope that we will find out students' difficulties when giving presentations and the experience and knowledge we have accumulated, we will try our best to do the thesis. Keywords: Difficulties, Body language, Presentation, English- major student LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1 IUH Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City 2 FFL Faculty of Foreign Language 3 BL Body Language 4 EFL English as a Foreign Language 5 TEFL Teaching English as a Foreign Language 6 M. Master of Arts 7 Q Question LIST OF FIGURES AND CHART List of figures Figure 1: Four groups of Gesture 6 Figure 2: Three example for "voice inflection" 7 Figure 3: Example for Effective Visuals 8 Figure 4: Example for Explaining Visual 8 Figure 5: The Introduction 9 Figure 6: The Body 10 Figure 7: The Conclusion 11 Figure 8: Student Presentation Rubric 12 List of chart Chart 1: Number of times students give presentations in front of the class 25 Chart 2: Students' feelings when watching a presentation where the 26 presenter uses body language Chart 3: How often do students use body language in presentation? 27 Chart 4: Some of the advantages of using body languages from the chosen 28 students Chart 5: How good are students at using Body language in presentating in 29 public? Chart 6: What problems do students often have when giving their 30 presentation Chart 7: After finishing presentations, what are the comments that students 31 often get from other students and teachers Chart 8: Students choose the right form of body language when 32 presentating Chart 9: What methods have students used to improve their presentation 33 skills Chart 10: The comments from teachers and other students important to 35 presenter after the presentation TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER I: .4 Scope of the study .1 Definitions of terms .1 Definitions of body language .2 Definitions of presentation.1 Three messages of a good presentation .2 Factors affect the result of oral presentation .3 Criteria to evaluate the presentations (rubrics) .1 Elements of body languages .2 The difficulties of using BL in presentation .4 Results of previous studies .1 Factors affect the result of oral presentation .2 The difficulties of using body language in presentation.
Research methodology and research methods. 25 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION .2 The difficulties that presenters have when using body language to give oral presentations.3 The possible solutions to have better body language in making presentations.1 Reliability of research’s results .2 Compare with the results of previous researches.1 Summary of the study .2 Limitation of the study. 41 Submitted by: Pham Thi Kim Yen ID’s Number: 17029811 CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale In recent times, innovation in teaching and learning methods has been carried out across universities across the country. As a result, schools have gradually shifted from traditional teaching to learner-centered.
Students come to class not only to listen to lectures and take notes but also to give presentations. Therefore, presentation is an essential skill that affects an individual's effective use of language. Currently, it is a fact that students majoring in English in general and students majoring in English at FFL at IUH in particular almost have to give many presentations during their studies at IUH. Therefore, for the presentation to bring the best results, students must know how to create a perfect presentation with good content, excellent PowerPoint presentation, and absolute persuasion or communication ability.
Nonetheless, using only speech is still an obstacle for Vietnamese students in general and IUH's foreign language students, especially in giving presentations. Many students feel self- deprecating, shy, afraid to stand in front of crowds. Moreover, students also find it challenging to give presentations in English and have difficulties convincing the audience and communicating verbally. It can be said that learners want to give a dynamic presentation, but they do not know how to do it or do not realize their mistakes.
Since then, learners feel bored and lack confidence when presenting. Therefore, to find out the best way in order to overcome these obstacles and difficulties. So, instead of using speech, the simplest way to create a more persuasive presentation is to use body language; by using body language, the presentation will be more exciting, more attractive, and the ability to impart will be increased. Thus, to have a good presentation, using body language plays an important role.
It helps the presentation be better, more perfect and creates a dynamic presentation. These are the concerns and reasons why the researchers decided to choose a research topic: "The difficulties in using body language in making the presentations of English-major students at FFL in IUH". Supervisor: Ho Thi Hien M. 1 Submitted by: Pham Thi Kim Yen ID’s Number: 17029811 1.2 Research goals The study was carried out with the following purposes: Firstly, the researchers aimed at finding out the challenges that English major students of IUH in FFL have in terms of using gestures in their presentation.
Secondly, most students find it difficult to use body language when giving presentations, so the researchers found out the typical body language difficulties students face when giving presentations. Finally, from those difficulties, the researchers want to find a solution to solve the problem. Besides, researchers have suggested some solutions to improve presentation ability. Those solutions also aim to help students who have difficulty using body language to give presentations in English major at IUH.3 Research questions Within the scope of this thesis, the researchers try to seek the answer for two research questions: -What difficulties do the presenters have in using body language to make oral presentations? -What are the possible solutions to have better body language in making presentations? 1.4 Scope of the study This research compile with the researchers started last November 12, up to January 5, 2021.
English major students in FFL at IUH are the researchers respondent of this research. Our participants involve both students who have made an oral presentation in their classes, so that an oral presentation needs a lot of skills: eye contact, visuals, postures…., we do not mean to cover all of those skills but just gesture. Supervisor: Ho Thi Hien M. 2 Submitted by: Pham Thi Kim Yen ID’s Number: 17029811 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Definitions of terms 2.1 Definitions of body language Communication is an indispensable part of life; all people need to communicate.
There are many different forms of communication to convey people's information and aspirations, such as through speech, writing, or body language. So what is body language? So far, there have been several definitions of body language by different linguists such as Cambridge Dictionary, Lewis (2012), Damanhouri (2018), Fast (1970), Cummings (2011). In the Cambridge Dictionary, body language is the movements or positions of your body that show other people how you are feeling, without using words. Lewis, H (2012) “Body language is the communication of personal feelings, emotions, attitudes, and thoughts through body movements- gestures, postures, position and distance, either consciously or involuntarily, more often subconsciously, and accompanied or accompanied by the spoken language”.
Research by Damanhouri (2018), “Body language is an important element of nonverbal communication. Body language includes facial expressions such as smiling, frowning, and eye contact, physical gestures such as movements of the hand and the head, and proxemics, which refers to the space between communicators”. According to (Fast, Body language, 1970), body language can include any non-reflexive or reflexive movement of a part, or all of the body, used by a person to communicate an emotional message to the outside world. Fast further point out “a study of body language is a study of the mixture of all body movements form the very deliberate to the completely unconscious, from those that apply only in one culture to those that cut across all cultural barriers.” Cummings, (2011) gave another definition: “Body language is the world’s original shared language.