VIET NAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES BA THESIS A SURVEY OF USING ROLE-PLAY TECHNIQUE ON LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS FOR GRADE 10 STUDENTS AT QUANG XUONG 2 HIGH SCHOOL – THANH HOA PROVINCE KHẢO SÁT VIỆC SỬ DỤNG KỸ NĂNG ĐÓNG VAI TRONG HỌC KĨ NĂNG NÓI ĐỐI VỚI HỌC SINH LỚP 10 TRƯỜNG THPT QUẢNG XƯƠNG 2 – TỈNH THANH HÓA Student: NGUYEN HUYEN ANH Student code: 621265 Major: ENGLISH Supervisor: NGUYEN THI THUY LAN, M. HaNoi – 2021 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority of the study project report entitled “A survey of using role - play technique on learning speaking skills for Grade 10 students at Quang Xuong 2 High School – Thanh Hoa Province” submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor in English Language. Except where the reference is indicated, no other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the text of the thesis. HaNoi, 2021 Nguyen Huyen Anh Approved by SUPERVISOR i TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY.
i TABLE OF CONTENTS. vi LIST OF ABBREVIATION. vii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES. viii PART I: INTRODUCTION.
RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. SCOPE OF THE STUDY. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY.
DESIGN OF THE STUDY. 3 PART II: DEVELOPMENT. 6 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW. REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS STUDIES.
Review of previous research in Vietnam. Review of previous research in the World. REVIEW OF THEORETICAL BA-CKGROUND. Overview of Speaking skills.
Definition of speaking skills. The components of speaking. Activities to improve speaking classes. Overview of Role - play.
Definition of role - play .2 The steps for role - play activity. Advantages of using role - play in learning speaking skills. The difficulties of using role - play technique. RESEARCH GOVERNING ORIENTATION.
Research setting/context. 29 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION. STUDENTS' PERCEPTION AND ATTITUDE OF ROLE PLAY IN LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS .1 Students' perception of role play in learning speaking skills. Students' attitude of role play in learning speaking skills.
DIFFICULTIES OF STUDENTS WHEN PARTICIPATING IN ROLE- PLAYING ACTIVITIES IN LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS. 40 PART III: CONCLUSION. LIMITATION OF THE STUDY. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY.
i APPENDIX 1: QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENT. iii APPENDIX 2: INTERVIEW FOR TEACHERS. vii APPENDIX 3: INTERVIEW FOR STUDENT. viii iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS During the course of my research, I have received contributions and support from many people.
First, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to teacher Nguyen Thi Thuy Lan M.A for her enthusiastic and useful guidance, helpful and insightful comments. This thesis would not have been possible without her constant support and encouragement. Secondly, I would like to thank all of the teachers in the Faculty of Foreign Languages - Vietnam National Academy of Agriculture for imparting useful knowledge and helping me during my study and research. Next, I would like to express my special thanks to teacher Do Thi Thuy, Ms.
Vu Thi Thieu, who teaches English and all students in grades 10C1, 10C9 of Quang Xuong 2 High School who participated in answering questionnaires and interviews for me to complete this thesis. In the process of practicing and completing the thesis, I have tried my best, but I cannot avoid shortcomings. I look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions to improve this thesis. Last but not least, I would like to give a special thanks to my family, friends and so many others, who have always supported and loved me throughout the process of complete my research! Nguyen Huyen Anh v ABSTRACT Among four skills namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing, learners have favored speaking because it is used to communicate with people.
However, students still have been faced with difficulties in learning speaking skills. Therefore, the research was carried out with the aim of providing techniques and methods to learn speaking skills better, specifically here applying role - playing skills to help increase students' interest in learning to speak. When applying role - play, students are placed in an interesting talking environment, promoting more creative imagination, thereby igniting interest and helping students talk as much as possible. The data used for analysis in this study are mainly collected through survey questionnaires, through observations of two classes with teachers who have applied this activity and through face - to - face interviews.
The thesis has mentioned the difficulties when students learn to speak and how useful after applying the skill of role - playing. One of the outstanding results from the data analysis is that the students of Quang Xuong 2 High School are very interested in learning to speak when applying the role - play method. vi LIST OF ABBREVIATION N: Number Ss: Students Ts: Teachers vii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Tables of students'questionnaire analysis Table 2.1: Criteria for judging the degree of problems .2: Students' interest in English speaking skills .3: Role - play activities in speaking are important to students .4: Students' understanding of the definition of role - play.5: Students' opinions on the steps to role - play.6: The benefits for students when teachers apply role - play activities .7: Descriptive Statistics: Students' opinions when participating in role - play activities.8: Difficulties students face when participating in role- play. 39 Figure of students'questionnaire analysis Figure 2.1: Applying role - play activities in learning speaking.2: Students’ improve their English speaking skills.
35 viii PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY In today's world, English has become a language of international communication. English is really the most important language in the world, English is spread anytime, anywhere and is the official language of over 53 countries and territories. However, For the education of English to achieve success, the four skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing, should be integrated in the most efficient way.
In the industrial era 4.0, almost all industries of commerce, healthcare, media, tourism,. are using English to communicate. In most of the meetings, forums and exchanges of work, knowledge and experience in the world, this international language is used as a bridge. So, English plays an extremely important role, it is not only a communication tool between people, but also creates opportunities for advancement for those who are working, employees who are working in enterprises foreign countries or joint ventures with foreign countries and especially it helps people keep up with the progress in the modern technology era.
But one thing cannot be denied that using English for speaking is not simple since learners have to master several important elements of English such as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. In fact, students can master the rules of grammar, but the use of English fluently to communicate is still very modest; students are still very afraid of using English and there are still many difficulties and obstacles that hinder students for many different objective and subjective reasons, especially high school students - the highest level of general education pine. 1 In that case, teachers are supposed to be creative in developing their teaching learning process to give attention to the elements of speaking, improve students' speaking skill, and make the English lesson more exciting. Hence, it is crucial to propose appropriate techniques to overcome the students' low speaking ability.
It is the need of the teacher to find out an effective technique in order to stimulate the students' positive attitude towards the speaking class and their speaking skills. Currently, in High schools, most teachers apply traditional teaching methods of teaching grammar structures and explaining vocabulary, so students may feel bored in speaking lessons. Therefore, students and teachers need to fully exploit the best learning methods. (Burns & Joyce, 1997: 10) said that there are many methods to learn and practice improving English-speaking skills, but one of the methods that create the most interest in the lesson is to learn and practice.
Role - play method, so the author has decided to choose to role - play as an effective teaching method. Role - playing plays an important role in teaching speaking because it gives students the opportunity to practice communicating in different social contexts, situations, and in different roles. Fully aware of the above problem, the researcher decided to carry out an investigation of using role-play techniques on learning to speak to Grade 10 students at Quang Xuong 2 High school. Through this thesis, the researcher will grasp the reality of applying role-playing activities in speaking lessons of high school education and hope to help students and teachers realize the usefulness of role - playing activities and thereby find more interest in speaking class.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The general aim of the study is to investigate of learners when using role - play activities in learning speaking skills of 10th Graders at Quang Xuong 2 High School. 2 There are several objectives of the study, those are: To examine the students' perception and attitudes toward using role - play activities in learning speaking skills. To identify difficulties from using role - play activities in their speaking classes of 10th Graders at Quang Xuong 2 High School. RESEARCH QUESTIONS In order to achieve a successful research result, it is necessary to focus on the following main goals: 1.
What is students’ perception and attitude about using role - play activities in learning speaking skills at Quang Xuong 2 High School? 2. What difficulties do 10th Graders at Quang Xuong 2 High School face when using role - play activities in their speaking classes? 4. SCOPE OF THE STUDY This study focuses on the use of role - play activities in the speaking learning of grade 10 students. Also, the study is limited to the context of Quang Xuong 2 High School with the participation of 80 students Grade 10 including 10C1 and 10C9.
Although the author is well aware that the survey statistics are not fully representative of all 10th graders students in Vietnam, the researcher hopes to propose some of the most popular facts that occur in the study. The survey was conducted from March 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY Role-play is the basic and best method when learning speaking skills - an essential and important skill for learners to function in a collective or community. Through this study, this researcher will try to make important contributions to English learning such as: 3 For students, it is possible to help students to properly understand, fully understand and deepen their understanding of role - play activity and the steps to do it.
Thereby increasing the interest in learning to speak English for students, contributing to motivation and high learning results especially for students at Quang Xuong 2 High school. From this study, it is possible to see the difficulties that students are facing when performing role - playing activities, thereby as a basis for finding solutions to those difficulties For other researchers who conduct the same study, the result of this study is expected to be a reference and contribute more information to solve the same problems. DESIGN OF THE STUDY In addition to the introduction and conclusion, the thesis is structured into 4 part clear layouts: Part I: Introduction In Introduction, there is a little explanation about background of the study, the urgency of the study and problem statement, aim and objectives of the study, research questions, scope of the study, methodology of the study, significance of the study and design of the study Part II: Development which is systematically divided into three chapters. The following is a short description about what each chapter contains.
Chapter 1: Literature review. This chapter includes review of the previous studies and review of theoretical background relevant to the study.