VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDLES DEPARTMENT OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES HOÀNG THỊ NGÁT AN INITIAL EVALUATION OF THE ACTIVITIES TEACHERS USE FOR TEACHING LISTENING SKILL FOR 10™ TEN FORM STUDENTS AT TRAN HUNG DAO HIGH SCHOOL Đánh giá bước đầu về hoạt động giáo viên sử dụng trong giờ dạy kĩ năng nghe hiểu cho học sinh lớp I0 trường THIPT Trần Tưng Đạo MA. MINOR TITESIS FIELD: ENGLISII METHODOLOGY CODE: 60.10 HANOI - 2012 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES HOANG THI NGAT AN INITIAL EVALUATION OF THE ACTIVITIES TEACHERS USE FOR TEACHING LISTENING SKILL FOR 10™ TEN FORM STUDENTS AT TRAN HUNG DAO HIGH SCHOOL Đánh giá bước đầu về hoạt động giáo viên sử dụng trong giờ dạp kĩ năng nghe hiển cho học sinh lớp 10 trường THPT Trần Hưng Đạo MA. MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60.10 SUPERVISOR: VU MAI TRANG, M.A TIANOT — 2012 TABLE OF CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENT.— LIST OF T TABLES AND FIGURES cece ABBREVIATIONS PART A: INTRODUCTION. Aim of the study tL 3.
Scope of the study w 5. Methods of the study ow 6 Design of the study. ww PART B: DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Theory on listening comprehension .1, Definition of listening.
Classification of listerng, 11.1, Real life listening. Listening teaching skills .1, Grammar translation method 1. Audio — lingual method 1.4, Task — based method. Stages of a listening lesson 1.4, Theory on activitics 1.
Defimition of activities. Table 1; The current situation of using listening activities Table 2: The ways teachers use listening activitics ‘Table 3: Students’ attitude towards listening ‘Table 4: Students’ evaluation of the activities used by the teacher Table 5: Students’ evaluation of the activities available in the textbook Table 6: Students’ perception on the authentic listening CHARTS: Chart 1: Pre-listening activities used by Ivachers and students? preference Chart 2; While-listoning activities used by teacher anu] students’ proference Chart 3: Past-listening activities used by teacher and students’ preference ABBREVIATION THD Tran Hung Dao CLT Communicative Language Teaching the students’ interest in listening. Necdless to say, it is necessary for the teachers to know what listening activities their students would like to take part in and what achivilies are really effective to them. For dose 1 mis.
Whe researcher would like 1o conduct a study on “Vin initial evaluation of activities teachers use for teaching listening comprehension skill for 10” form students at Tran lung Dao high school” with the hope of helping the teachers of English at THD high school to apply the suitable and effective listening activities to teach listening, skill more efficiently. 2 Aims of the study The study aims at: « Investigating the current English listening teaching and leaming situations at THD high school «Identifying the activities teachers at ‘THD high school often use for teaching, English listening comprehension and giving an initial evaluation of these activitics. ® Giving some suggestions to the teachers at THID high school in applying suitable listening activities 1a make their listening lessons more effective thereby onhancing students’ interest in listening lessons. Research questions ‘Yo achieve the above aims, the study focuses on finding out the answers of the following questions 1.
What kinds of activities and the ways do teachers at TIED high school use to teach listening comprehension? What are teachers’ and students’ attitude towards these activities in term of 1 authentieity, suitability and integration? 3. What activities can teachers usc in order to teach listening skill more effectively? 4. Scope of the study Though the study focuses on evaluation of activitics teachers use for teaching linglish listening comprehension skill, due to the limitation of time and page numbers of the minor thesis, the researcher can only conduct a survey on the students of 10 form and ten teachers of English at THD high school to identify some activities to help them better in teaching and learning listening skill their evaluation of the listening activities used by teachers, after that suggest. Methods of the study To achieve the aims mentioned above, the study was carried out with data collected from different sourves: two questionnaires were designed for collecting data for analysis from students and teachers at ‘11D high school.
‘The researcher also inlervicwed some teachers and students lo double-check the information obtained from the survey questionnaires, Beside survey questionnaires and interview, the researcher also makes some class observations to collect information needed for the study 6. Design of the study The study is divided into three parts: - Part A: presenls an overview of the study in which the rationale for the research, the aims, the research questions, the scope of the study, the research method, as well as Ihe design of the study were briefly presented. includes 4 chaplers as follow Chapter I presents the concepts relevant to the research topic such as theory on listening comprehension including definition, classification of listening as well as some ways of teaching listening skill and stages of listening lesson. In this chapter the researcher also mentioned theory related to activities as definition, classification a3 well as criteria to evaluate activities and some ways adapting material.
PART A: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale It can be denied that nowadays English is one of the most popular languages in all over the world, In the era of globalization and international exchange, Linglish has become the main means of communication in many fields of our life such as medicine, science, technology, sports, education, ete. Therefore, (caching and learning English have been paid much attention in every country. In Viet Nam in recent years the number of people who want to know English has become increasing and teaching and learning Fnglish have paid much more attention. In most schools, through out the country, English has become a compulsory subject.
Llowever, how to teach and learn Uinglish effectively is not simple. Compared to other language skills, listening is considered as one of ihe most difficult one for both teachers and students. Many studies have been done to seek the ways to make listening lessons less difficult, to give students more confidence, and also some practical strategies to help them study listening skill better. Like many teachers at other high schools, the teachers of English at ‘!HD high school also wish and always try their best to make listening lessons more imeresting and allracive to their stusterts.
Despite thew great effort, the teachers still fail to get students involve in their lessons and a lot of the students fail to take the listening, input so they can hardly understand the spoken messages. That is the reason why many of ther gel bored or become stressful and ignorart. wher listening, classes start even though all of them agree listening skill a very important language skill. Facing to this situation, as one of the English teachers at this school, T would like to do something to improve our teaching and learmny English im general and listening skall in particular.
It is obvious that the activities teachers choose and the ways they organize the activities play an important role in the success of a listening lesson as suitable and attractive activities can make the listening lesson more interesting and arouse the students’ interest in listening. Necdless to say, it is necessary for the teachers to know what listening activities their students would like to take part in and what achivilies are really effective to them. For dose 1 mis. Whe researcher would like 1o conduct a study on “Vin initial evaluation of activities teachers use for teaching listening comprehension skill for 10” form students at Tran lung Dao high school” with the hope of helping the teachers of English at THD high school to apply the suitable and effective listening activities to teach listening, skill more efficiently.
2 Aims of the study The study aims at: « Investigating the current English listening teaching and leaming situations at THD high school «Identifying the activities teachers at ‘THD high school often use for teaching, English listening comprehension and giving an initial evaluation of these activitics. ® Giving some suggestions to the teachers at THID high school in applying suitable listening activities 1a make their listening lessons more effective thereby onhancing students’ interest in listening lessons. Research questions ‘Yo achieve the above aims, the study focuses on finding out the answers of the following questions 1. What kinds of activities and the ways do teachers at TIED high school use to teach listening comprehension? What are teachers’ and students’ attitude towards these activities in term of 1 authentieity, suitability and integration? 3.
What activities can teachers usc in order to teach listening skill more effectively? 4. Scope of the study Though the study focuses on evaluation of activitics teachers use for teaching linglish listening comprehension skill, due to the limitation of time and page numbers of the minor thesis, the researcher can only conduct a survey on the students of 10 form and ten teachers of English at THD high school to identify some activities to help them better in teaching and learning listening skill their evaluation of the listening activities used by teachers, after that suggest. Methods of the study To achieve the aims mentioned above, the study was carried out with data collected from different sourves: two questionnaires were designed for collecting data for analysis from students and teachers at ‘11D high school. ‘The researcher also inlervicwed some teachers and students lo double-check the information obtained from the survey questionnaires, Beside survey questionnaires and interview, the researcher also makes some class observations to collect information needed for the study 6.
Design of the study The study is divided into three parts: - Part A: presenls an overview of the study in which the rationale for the research, the aims, the research questions, the scope of the study, the research method, as well as Ihe design of the study were briefly presented. includes 4 chaplers as follow Chapter I presents the concepts relevant to the research topic such as theory on listening comprehension including definition, classification of listening as well as some ways of teaching listening skill and stages of listening lesson. In this chapter the researcher also mentioned theory related to activities as definition, classification a3 well as criteria to evaluate activities and some ways adapting material. Classification of activities.
Criteria for Activities Lvaluation. Adapting material 14 Chapter 2: MELHODOLOGY. ke ke IS 2. TH se TH se TH se 18 2.
The setting of the study 15 2. Instrument for collecting data 17 2. Description of procedure for collectinys data 18 2. TH se TH se 18 2.
20 Chapter 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION. Data analysis of teachers’ survey questionnaire and inlerview m1 3. Data analysis of students’ survey questionnaire and interview. Data analysis of class observation 31 Chapter 4: FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS.
TH se TH se TH se 35 4. The curent situation of teaching and leaming listening skill. The current situation of listening activities used by teachers at Tran Hung Dao hinh school. TH se TH se 35 4.
The students’ evaluation of the activities available in the text book and their suggestions. Evaluation of the listening activities used by teachers at TIID high school 36 4.5, The students’ preference for class listening activities and their perception on authentic listening, +? 42. Classification of activities. Criteria for Activities Lvaluation.
Adapting material 14 Chapter 2: MELHODOLOGY. ke ke IS 2. TH se TH se TH se 18 2. The setting of the study 15 2.
Instrument for collecting data 17 2. Description of procedure for collectinys data 18 2. TH se TH se 18 2. 20 Chapter 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION.
Data analysis of teachers’ survey questionnaire and inlerview m1 3. Data analysis of students’ survey questionnaire and interview. Data analysis of class observation 31 Chapter 4: FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS .
