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 - MAJOR STUDENTS AT FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY STUDENT’S FULL NAME: Pham Van Sang ID NUMBER : 17011881 CLASS CODE : DHAV13A COHORT : To Nguyen Xuan Yen Pham Thi Kim Yen 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 - MAJOR STUDENTS AT FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY. STUDENT’S FULL NAME: Pham Van Sang ID NUMBER : 17011881 CLASS CODE : DHAV13A COHORT : To Nguyen Xuan Yen Pham Thi Kim Yen 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 Van Sang ID Number : 17011881 Class Code : DHAV13A Cohort : To Nguyen Xuan Yen Pham Thi Kim Yen Supervisor Name: Ho Thi Hien M.
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 else where. I accept heavy penalty for any cheating or plagiarism. Date submitted: 20/6/2021 Signed : Word count: 12690 words ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In difficult circumstances caused by the covid 19 pandemic, this thesis would not be realized without the help of some people.
By using this page, I would like to expressed my gratitude to everyone who has taught me, inspired me and supported me during the process of conducting this thesis. Firstly, I would like to express my grateful to the School Board of Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City and all teachers in Faculty of Foreign Languages creating favorable conditions for me to complete this graduation report. After that, I want to express my deepest gratitude to my respectable supervisor, Mrs. Ho Thi Hien for her profound knowledge and useful advices which are almost importance to the successful of my study.
Also, I want to take this opportunity to send my thanks to my team, Ms. To Nguyen Xuan Yen and Ms. Pham Thi Kim Yen. In difficult conditions due to the Covid 19 pandemic, they supported me a lot and provided me with useful knowledge that made this research complete.
I wish to acknowledge my thanks to all students studying at Faculty of Foreign Language in Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh city for responding positively to the questionnaire in this study. From the results I have collected, I have obtained useful data as a basis for my arguments. Last but not least, I want to express my gratitude towards to my beloved parents, my friends who always encourage me to overcome difficulties and challenges so that I can complete this research. ABSTRACT Presentation skill is very important that significantly affects the effectiveness of using language.
At the moment, the reality shows that students who have studied English field at Faculty of Foreign Languages (FFL) in general and students studying in Industrial University in Ho Chi Minh city (IUH) in particular almost have to make a lot of presentations during their study at IUH. However, students at FFL in IUH still face many obstacles that prevent them from creating a successful presentation, and one of them is using body language. This research focuses on studying the difficulties that students face when using body language in presentations. Moreover, from the results obtained, the researcher can suggest some solutions to help students improve the ability to use body language in the presentations.
Keywords: body language, difficulties, presentation s, students- major LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1 IUH Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City 2 FFL Faculty of Foreign Language 3 BL Body Language 4 M. Master of Arts 5 GG Google LIST OF FIGURES AND CHART List of figures Figure 1: Classification of nonverbal communication (Nguyen Quang) 11 List of charts Chart 1: The number of presentations that students have to make 22 Chart 2: frequency of using body language of students at FFL in IUH 23 Chart 3: Problems in giving presentation 24 Chart 4: The ratio of men and women studying at FFL in IUH 26 Chart 5: Student’s agreement with the comments given at the end of 27 presentation Chart 6: Comments that students get from other students and teacher 28 Chart 7: Methods that students in IUH use to improve their presentation 29 skills Chart 8: Right forms of body language 30 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………………. SCOPE OF THE STUDY …………………….3 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW…. DEFINITION AND KEY TERMS………………………………………………………5 2.
Definitions of presentations ……………………………………………………………5 2. Definition of body language ……………………………………………………………5 2. Purpose of presentations ……………………………………………………………. Three messages of a good presentation ……………………………………………… 7 2.
The importance of body language in presentations ………………………………… 9 2. Types of body language ………………………………………………………………. RESULT OF THE PREVIOUS STUDY.13 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH DESIGN ……………………………………………………. THE PLACE WHERE RESEARCHER INVESTIGATE.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH METHODS …………………18 3. DATA ANALYSIS………………………………………………………………………20 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION …………………………………………… 21 4. Difficulties that the presenters have in using body language to make presentations ………………………………………………………………………………………………. Solutions proposed by researchers to improve students' ability to use body language in presentations at IUH …………………………………………………………………….
Reliability of research result…………………………………………………………. The discussion among the results of the research and other previous researches. SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH …………………………………… 36 5. 36 REFERRENCES ……………………………………………………………………………37 APPENDICES ………………………………………………………………………………39 QUESTIONAIRE……………………………………………………………………………39 FORMS SUPERVISOR’S EVALUATION FORM 43 EXAMINER’S EVALUATION FORM 45 PROGRESS FORM 47 Submitted by: Pham Van Sang ID Number: 17011881 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Supervisor: Ho Thi Hien M.
1 Submitted by: Pham Van Sang ID Number: 17011881 1.1 Rationale Presentation skill is very important that significantly affects the effectiveness of using language. At the moment, the reality shows that students who have studied English field at Faculty of Foreign Languages (FFL) in general and students studying in Industrial University in Ho Chi Minh city (IUH) in particular almost have to make a lot of presentations during their study at IUH. Therefore, they need to know how to make perfect presentations with not only a good content and beautiful background PowerPoint, but also an absolute persuasion and high ability impart so that the presentations can bring the best result. However, a problem for Vietnamese students in general and IUH’s foreign language faculty in particular is still using only speech during the process of making presentations.
Many students feel shamefaced and uncomfortable when making English presentations as well as have many difficulties in persuading the audiences because of using only speech. Despite of wanting to make an active presentation, learners do not know how to make or if they recognize their shortcomings, they also do not know how to solve these problems. Finally, the learners feel bored or a lack of confidence when making presentations. Therefore, presenters have to find out the best way in order to overcome these obstacles.
The easiest way to create more persuasive presentations is use body language beside using speech, because of using body language, the presentations will be more exciting, more attractive especially the ability to impart will be also higher. Thus, in order to have a good presentation, using body language plays an important role. It not only helps the presentations will be better, more perfect, but also create the active presentations. These are the concerns and reasons why the researchers decided to choose a research topic: “The difficulties in using body language in making presentations of English - major students at Faculty of Foreign Languages in Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh city”.2 Research Goals In this research paper, researcher aims that find out the difficulties and challenges in using body language on presentations of students at FFL in IUH.
Students make many presentations when they go to study at universities. IUH students will get many difficulties when they stand in front of class and make a presentation. In addition, offering solutions to solve these problems and Supervisor: Ho Thi Hien M. 2 Submitted by: Pham Van Sang ID Number: 17011881 recommending to improve the presentation skill of English majored students at FFL in IUH are the wishes that the researcher wants to bring in this graduation report.3 Research Questions Within the aims of this thesis, the researcher has two main questions need to find out the answers: -What difficulties do the presenters have in using body language to make 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 began at last November 12, up to June 20, 2021.
English major students in FFL at IUH are the researcher respondents of this research. The participant are the students studying at IUH who had at least one time making presentations in front of class. In addition, body language is the key that researcher wants to focus on this research paper. Supervisor: Ho Thi Hien M.
3 Submitted by: Pham Van Sang ID Number: 17011881 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW Supervisor: Ho Thi Hien M. 4 Submitted by: Pham Van Sang ID Number: 17011881 In this chapter, the researcher is going to review briefly the definitions of the key terms that are used throughout the research. Definition of key terms: 2. Definitions of presentations: There are many presentation’s definitions which were given by many researchers in their studies.
Through presentations, they can convince the audience with their own opinions and arguments. Ohio Wesleyan University (2001), in their:” Guidelines for Oral Presentation” characterized presentations as “brief discussion topic delivered to a group of listeners in order to stimulate discussion”. To some extent, "discuss" is a word that is heavily mentioned in this definition. This shows that the author considers the presentation as well as the discussion.
They join the audience to discuss an existing topic together. Moreover, a presentation is no longer merely an activity for one person, but also a joint activity of both participants and presenter in that presentation. Tiara & Ranna,A,M (2015) argued that “presentation is an activity in which someone shows, describes, or explains something to a group of people”. This definition gives a general opinion about presentation.
However, this definition does not show the real purpose of giving a presentation. To sum up, a presentation is a method that people often use to present a problem, phenomenon or event. Definitions of body language: When studying about body language, researcher finds out that there are many books or studies that define body language in many different ways. flipping through a few book titles, Julius Fast (1971).
Body Language, Pocket Books, New York defined that “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.” This definition refers to non-reflexive or reflexive movement as a tool used by a person to interact with the outside world. This is a relatively good definition because it considers the linguistic category (non-reflexive and reflexive). However, this can cause confusion for readers Supervisor: Ho Thi Hien M. 5 Submitted by: Pham Van Sang ID Number: 17011881 if they do not have any knowledge or understanding of linguistics in general and non-reflexive or reflexive in particular.
In a research paper, body language is the process of communicating what you are feeling or thinking by the way you place and move your body rather than by words (Hornby, 2006). This is a concise and easy to understand definition. However, this definition does not show the true purpose of body language. Some websites also provide a definition for body language.