BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG ------------------------------- KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP NGÀNH : NGÔN NGỮ ANH – NHẬT Sinh viên : NGUYỄN NGỌC DIỆU Giảng viên hướng dẫn: TH.S NGUYẾN THỊ QUỲNH HOA HẢI PHÒNG – 2024 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG ----------------------------------- A STUDY ON APPLICATION OF ROLE PLAY TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILLS OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT HAIPHONG PRIVATE UNIVERSITY KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP ĐẠI HỌC HỆ CHÍNH QUY NGÀNH: NGÔN NGỮ ANH Sinh viên: NGUYỄN NGỌC DIỆU Giảng viên hướng dẫn: TH.S NGUYỄN THỊ QUỲNH HOA HẢI PHÒNG – 2024 BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC QUẢN LÝ VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ HẢI PHÒNG -------------------------------------- NHIỆM VỤ ĐỀ TÀI TỐT NGHIỆP Sinh viên: NGUYỄN NGỌC DIỆU Mã SV: 1812753012 Lớp : NA2201N Ngành : NGÔN NGỮ ANH Tên đề tài: A study on application of role play to improve speaking skills of the first year students at Haiphong Private University DECLARATION I hereby certify that this thesis entitled “A STUDY ON APPLICATION OF ROLE PLAY TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILLS OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT HAIPHONG PRIVATE UNIVERSITY” is my own research work under the guidance of Mrs Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa M. The references used in the project are clearly stated in the REFERENCES section. The data and results presented in the thesis are completely honest and have not been published in any other works. Signature Nguyen Ngoc Dieu Date: 10/01/2024 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to, first of all, express my deepest thanks to my supervisor, Mrs Nguyen Thi Quynh Hoa, for her valuable instructions, criticism, comments, corrections and her kind encouragement during the development of this study.
My appreciation and gratitude are also extended to 30 student participants, who are working and studying at the Haiphong Private University for their enthusiastic help in the data collection procedure and for their support. Last but not least, I would like to convey my thanks to my family, all of my friends who encouraged me to take this task and many others who have assisted. Without these support and assistance, the implementation of this study would have not been possible. TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Rationales for the study. Scope of the Study. Design of the study. 11 CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND .1 Definition of speaking skills .2 The aims of speaking .2 The aspect of speaking .3 Method to learn or improve speaking .1 Definition of Role playing method.2 The importance of role playing method in teaching.3 Benefits of role playing method in teaching.
Methods of collecting data. Design of the survey questionnaire .1 Design of the survey questionnaire .2 Progress of the survey questionnaire .3 Purpose of the survey questionnaire .1 Students’ method to improve speaking skills.2 Students’ performance toward the role playing technique pre and post using.3 Students’ attitude toward the role playing method.1 Discussion of the result. Suggested solution to improve the effectiveness of role play .1 Suggestions for teachers .2 Suggestions for students. 40 7 LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS Số hiệu bảng Tên bảng 1.1 The years that students have been studying English The most confident English skills of the 2nd year English major 1.2 student at Haiphong University 1.3 The frequency of speaking English made by students The most difficult feature in speaking English according to students’ 1.4 opinions The importance of pronunciation in English 1.5 The frequency of mistakes made by students Types of method students use to improve speaking skills and avoid 1.6 mistake The students’ performance in speaking class before applying the role 1.7 playing method The students’ performance in speaking class before applying the role 1.8 playing method 8 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.
Rationales for the study Nowadays, English has become a worldwide language used in many countries. “English as a tool of communication has been playing an important part in acquiring cultural, scientific, and technical knowledge, for collecting worldwide information and carrying out international exchange and cooperation. Through language, one can communicate and interact with others” stated by Ayuningtias, Wulandari, and Yana (2019). As the globalization era is getting more and more competitive, it requires us, especially students to have language skills, specifically having the ability to speak English well and fluently.
In Vietnam, English is used as a secondary language, taught and learnt by most of the population. Though English has four main skills, which are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing, learners in Vietnam mainly focus on Reading and Writing skills rather than Speaking. Students spend lots of time on learning grammar for weekly tests and final examinations. From primary school to high school, students don’t have a chance to practice speaking English in class with friends and this is why students always have difficulties in speaking English.
Some students cannot keep up with the grammar lessons and fall behind, they are lack of vocabulary and always feel insecure when communicating in English. To overcome this problem, many methods and techniques have been used in order that actively engage students, providing relevant and contextual learning and learning experiences in life and one method seems to have the most effective result – that is “role playing”. Role playing is a powerful language teaching methods that involve all the students in the learning process. In order to further study the uses of the role playing method, the author has conducted the research entitled: “A study on application of role play to improve speaking skills of the first year student at Haiphong Private University” I hope that my study can help the English major students of Haiphong Private University understand the uses of the role playing method and apply it into learning process.
Research Aims The expected purpose of this study is to find out the response of students to role playing technique in practicing speaking skills and also to find out whether this technique can improve the speaking ability of the first year student at Haiphong Private University. Research Questions In order to reach the research aims, two or three research questions are formulated as follows. What is the effect of learning speaking skills using the Role-playing method on improving student speaking achievement? 2. How is the student’s response after using the Role- playing method to improve students speaking skills? 1.
Research methods The study will be conducted on the first-year English major students of Haiphong Private University. They have the same age and both genders, because most students are female, the number of female subjects was much bigger than the male ones. In order to analyze the effectiveness of using Role playing method in that students make in their conversations, observation should have been used in their lesson in class. However, due to the short of time, we couldn’t have the opportunity to observe and record their pronunciation in the long period.
Therefore, the observation was kept on in 2 weeks and a survey questionnaire was created to gather data. To collect the data, the survey questionnaire was created. It was designed carefully with the help of the tutor of the author. It would be brought and delivered to the English major first – year of Haiphong Private University via Facebook and other social media.
After collecting the data, based on the result the author will understand and show out the effectiveness of the role playing method from the data. 10 For the data collected by the survey questionnaire, the author checked the different opinions of students about the information included in the questionnaire, counted the number of students selected each idea then concluded them in statistics. Scope of the Study The study will be conducted on the first year English major students of Haiphong Private University. The result of this paper will be based on the survey questionnaire given to first-year students of Haiphong University’s English linguistic major.
The writer hopes that this study will be useful and hopeful for every student who wants to speak English well. Design of the study This study consists of five chapters: Chapter 1: Introduction: presents rationale, aims, research questions, scope and design of the study. Chapter 2: Literature review: consists of the definitions of speaking and the role play method Chapter 3: Methodology: provides the methods that the researcher uses in the paper. Chapter 4: Analysis: Analysis and gives some suggestions for students to improve the effectiveness in applying the role play method Chapter 5: Conclusion: Summarizes all the key issues as well as the limitations of the study.
11 CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND This chapter provides the reader with the related theoretical background of speaking skills and the role play method. The background knowledge will help students understand the importance of the speaking skills as well as the effective of the Role play method toward the improvement of the speaking skills.1 Definition of speaking skills Speaking is defined as a tool which involves producing, receiving and processing information between human. It can also be defined as the ability using to expressing thought, idea and feeling orally, coherently served both transactional and interactional purposes. The definition of speaking is proposed in many ways by multiple experts.
As Siahaan stated “Speaking is a productive language skill”. It means that speaking is to produce or make the sound of an existed language by a person at the meaning and be understood by other people in order to create a good communication. Moreover, speaking is the use of language to communicate with each other ( Fulcher, 2003:23). This activity involves two or a group of people in whom the participants are both listeners and speakers having to react to what they are hearing in many topics, concepts and make their contribution so that each participants has intention or a set of intention that he or she wants.
According to Bailey ( 2000:25), speaking is a process of interactions where speakers intend to build meaning conversation via producing, receiving and processing information. Tarigan (2008) defined “Based on Competence Based Curriculum speaking is one of the four basic competences that the student should gain well. It has an importance role in communication. Speaking can find it in spoken cycle especially in Joint Construction of Text stage” Department Pendidikan Nasional (2004) stated “ When we produce the text and it should be meaningful.
In the nature of communication, we can find the speaker, the 12 listener, the message and the feedback. Speaking could not be separated pronunciation as it encourages learners to learn the English sounds”. According to Freeman (2001) stated, “Speaking ability more complex and difficult than people assume, and speaking study like other cases in study of language, naturalize many case to language teachers”. Tarigan (2008) stated, “It means speaking as the way of communication influencers our individual life strongly.
So, in this process we can call it an interaction between two sides. When someone speak to other person, there will be a relationship. The relationship itself is communication”. Wilson (1983) regarded, “Speaking is the development of relationship between the speaker and the listener.
In addition to speaking, determine which logical, psychological and physical linguistic rules should be applied in a given communication situation. It means that the main goal of speaking is to communication”. Richard (2008) stated, “Speaking we tend to be getting something done, exploring ideas, working out some aspects of the world, or simply being together. If the student can speak English fluently that can help them to easy communicate and also explore their idea.
Speaking English well also helps students to access up to date information if field including science, technology and health and so on” Cameron (2001) stated, “There are three important points of speaking skill. First, by productive skills is meant the ability of a person to actively produce the language by coordinate the organ of speech.