VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES See ek ese sea oe se etek HOANG TH] HUE DIFFICULTIES FACED BY FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF TOUR GUIDES AT TITANIT HOA COLLEGE OF CULTURE AND ARTS IN ENGLISH ORAL PRESENTATIONS NING KIIO KITAN BOI VOI SINII VIEN NĂM THỨ NHẬT CHUYEN NGANH HUGNG DAN VIRN DU LICH TRUONG CAO DANG VAN HOA NGHE THUAT THANH HOA TRONG TIUYET TRINI BANG TIENG ANII M. MINOR ‘THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Cohort: K18 Code: 60.10 llanoi- 2011 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES See ek ese sea oe se etek HOANG TH] HUE DIFFICULTIES FACED BY FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF TOUR GUIDES AT TITANIT HOA COLLEGE OF CULTURE AND ARTS IN ENGLISH ORAL PRESENTATIONS NING KIIO KITAN BOI VOI SINII VIEN NĂM THỨ NHẬT CHUYEN NGANH HUGNG DAN VIRN DU LICH TRUONG CAO DANG VAN HOA NGHE THUAT THANH HOA TRONG TIIUYET TRINII BANG TIENG ANIT M. MINOR THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60.10 Cohort: K18 Supervisor: Phan Hoang Yén, MLA Hanoi- 2011 ABSTRACT The importance of English oral presentation is undeniable in the Tour guiding work, Therefore, understanding the students of Tour guides’ difficulties in learning English oral proscntation skill is apparently necessary to gain cffvetive ESP teaching and learning. This rrinor thesis was carried oul wilh an allermpl to investigate the areas of difficulties and obstacles that first years students of Tour guides have encountered when learning English oral presentation skill at ‘hanh Hoa College of Culture & Arts ([HCCA) The minor thesis is organized in 3 parts: Part | presents the rationale, aims and significance of the study, research questions, scope, method and design of Ihe study.
Part II consists of 4 chapters The first chapter concentrates on the background of the study and the related literature reviews, on which the contents of the study are based, ‘The second chapter focuses on developing the research methodology, in which the two questionnaires for firsl year siudenls of Tour guides and ESP teachers are chosen as main instruments. ‘The third chapter is to present the data collected from the two questionnaires and to analyze the data The fourth chapter aims at discussing the findings of the difficulties as well as some solutions in the hope to develop students of our guides’ Lnglish oral presentation skill at Thanh Hoa College of Cullure & Arts, Part I/1 summaries the study and offers some suggestions for further study. Rationale To sludents of Tour guides, English oral communication skill is very essential since the industry is really in need of the graduates who have the skills, For first year Vietnamese students of our guides at ‘Thanh Hoa College of Culture & Arts, English oral presentation is extremely important, because they expect lo use iL frequently for their tour guiding work, However, for neatly seven years of teaching ESP at THCCA, the researcher of the study have realized the fact that many leamers of Your guides course after a long time of learning English for Touristn find themselves nneble to deliver an oral prasentalion suc filly. Among of them, there are a large number of first year sudenus who always find it difficult to make English oral presentations in the class.
2, Aims of the study - investigating first year students of tour guides’ difficultics in English oral prescntation skill - giving some snggestions and solutions to reduce difficullies and improve the teaching and learning of English oral presentations in Tour guides training course. In other words, the aims of the study are to answer the following questions: 1. What are the difficulties faced by first year students of Tour guides at Thanh Hoa College of Culture and Arts in English oval presentations? 2. What are the solutions to overcome the identified difficulties? 3.
Scope of the study The research is limited to the exploration of di fficutlies encountered by first year students of Tour guides at Thanh Hoa College of Culture & Arts in English Oral presentations. Methodology «© Conducting a survey questionnaire to investigate first year students’ difficulties in English oral pr © Conducting a survey questionnaire to examine teachers’ view on first year students’ difficulties in English oral presentation, their teaching techniques and suggested solutions to the identified problems. © Resorting to personal experience. 5, Design of the study LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS THCCA: Thanh Iloa College of Culturs and Arts ESP: English for specific purpose L&: Basic English.
Rationale To sludents of Tour guides, English oral communication skill is very essential since the industry is really in need of the graduates who have the skills, For first year Vietnamese students of our guides at ‘Thanh Hoa College of Culture & Arts, English oral presentation is extremely important, because they expect lo use iL frequently for their tour guiding work, However, for neatly seven years of teaching ESP at THCCA, the researcher of the study have realized the fact that many leamers of Your guides course after a long time of learning English for Touristn find themselves nneble to deliver an oral prasentalion suc filly. Among of them, there are a large number of first year sudenus who always find it difficult to make English oral presentations in the class. 2, Aims of the study - investigating first year students of tour guides’ difficultics in English oral prescntation skill - giving some snggestions and solutions to reduce difficullies and improve the teaching and learning of English oral presentations in Tour guides training course. In other words, the aims of the study are to answer the following questions: 1.
What are the difficulties faced by first year students of Tour guides at Thanh Hoa College of Culture and Arts in English oval presentations? 2. What are the solutions to overcome the identified difficulties? 3. Scope of the study The research is limited to the exploration of di fficutlies encountered by first year students of Tour guides at Thanh Hoa College of Culture & Arts in English Oral presentations. Methodology «© Conducting a survey questionnaire to investigate first year students’ difficulties in English oral pr © Conducting a survey questionnaire to examine teachers’ view on first year students’ difficulties in English oral presentation, their teaching techniques and suggested solutions to the identified problems.
© Resorting to personal experience. 5, Design of the study LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS THCCA: Thanh Iloa College of Culturs and Arts ESP: English for specific purpose L&: Basic English. Teachers’ opinions of the contents in the course beok and of SP syllabus.6, Teachers’ difficulties in Leaching English oral presentations 29 3.7, Teachers’ opinions of the factors causing students” problems and teachers” 29 suggested solutions 3. Conclusion 31 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS ewe8B 4.
SIudemls` difficultics in Icarsiing English orat presentation Be 4.1, Students lack specialized knowledge of Tourism 4. Students have low English proficiency 4.3, Students lack body language por formance 4.4, Students lack confidence 4. Students lack an LSP practice environment 4.2, Teachers* difficulties in teaching English oral presentation 4.1, Lack ofa suitable training program 4. Lack of necessary facilities 4.
Improve sociolinguistic competence and specialized knowledge 42.2, Improve students’ performance skall in oral presentations 4.3, Build up students’ confidence 4. Improve their knowledge of ESP 4.2, Improve then performance ability of English oral presentations of Tour guides 4,2.3, For the administrators 38 4.1, Change the ESP teaching syllabus and equip conductive facilities 38 4. Provide TSP teachers with chances Lo lake part in Tourismn training 39 conrses 4.3, Create an ESP practice environment for students of Tour guides 39 vil 2. The research methodology 2.
The instrumenis of the sludy 2.1, The questionnaire for students 2. The questionnaire for teachers 2.4, Data eolleclion procedures 2.5, Summary CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 3. The questionnaires for students 3.1, Student’s living condition and background of leaning English 3.2, Student’s awareness of the importance of English oral presentations in their future career.3, Students” evahations of the lopies and their oral presentation of Tour guides in the class 3.4, Students’ difficulties in learning English oral presentation skill 21 3. Factor causing the students’ difficulties 3.
The questionnaires for teachers 25 3.1, Teachers’ teaching experiences 25 3. Teachers” perception of the importance of English oral presentations to 26 students of Tour guides 3.3, Teachers’ opinions of Yourism major students’ attitudes to English oral 26 presentations 3.4, Teachers’ methods in teaching English oral presontations Lo firs students of Tour guides vị TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CANDIDATS’S STATEMENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. LIST OF TABLES TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART [: INTRODUCTION Rgliorblo ‘Annsof the study wp Scope of the study Methodology we Design of the study PART Ul: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW RO 1. Current overview on oral presentations LLL.
A general view of oral presentation Doe 1. Types of oral presentations 1. Structure offan oral presentation 1. The importance of English Oral presentations to students of Tour guides 1.
Problems with English oral presentation of Tour guides CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 2. The context of the study 2. FSP teaching and loaning situation at Thanh Hoa Colloge of Culture & Aris 2.3, Students of Tour guides 3. Materials used for first year students of Tour guide al TIICCA 2.1, The objectives of the course 2.
The syllabus LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS THCCA: Thanh Iloa College of Culturs and Arts ESP: English for specific purpose L&: Basic English. Teachers’ opinions of the contents in the course beok and of SP syllabus.6, Teachers’ difficulties in Leaching English oral presentations 29 3.7, Teachers’ opinions of the factors causing students” problems and teachers” 29 suggested solutions 3. Conclusion 31 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS ewe8B 4. SIudemls` difficultics in Icarsiing English orat presentation Be 4.1, Students lack specialized knowledge of Tourism 4.
Students have low English proficiency 4.3, Students lack body language por formance 4.4, Students lack confidence 4. Students lack an LSP practice environment 4.2, Teachers* difficulties in teaching English oral presentation 4.1, Lack ofa suitable training program 4. Lack of necessary facilities 4. Improve sociolinguistic competence and specialized knowledge 42.2, Improve students’ performance skall in oral presentations 4.3, Build up students’ confidence 4.
Improve their knowledge of ESP 4.2, Improve then performance ability of English oral presentations of Tour guides 4,2.3, For the administrators 38 4.1, Change the ESP teaching syllabus and equip conductive facilities 38 4. Provide TSP teachers with chances Lo lake part in Tourismn training 39 conrses 4.3, Create an ESP practice environment for students of Tour guides 39 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS THCCA: Thanh Iloa College of Culturs and Arts ESP: English for specific purpose L&: Basic English. The research methodology 2. The instrumenis of the sludy 2.1, The questionnaire for students 2.
The questionnaire for teachers 2.4, Data eolleclion procedures 2.5, Summary CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 3. The questionnaires for students 3.1, Student’s living condition and background of leaning English 3.2, Student’s awareness of the importance of English oral presentations in their future career.3, Students” evahations of the lopies and their oral presentation of Tour guides in the class 3.4, Students’ difficulties in learning English oral presentation skill 21 3. Factor causing the students’ difficulties 3. The questionnaires for teachers 25 3.1, Teachers’ teaching experiences 25 3.
Teachers” perception of the importance of English oral presentations to 26 students of Tour guides 3.3, Teachers’ opinions of Yourism major students’ attitudes to English oral 26 presentations 3.4, Teachers’ methods in teaching English oral presontations Lo firs students of Tour guides vị TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CANDIDATS’S STATEMENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. LIST OF TABLES TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART [: INTRODUCTION Rgliorblo ‘Annsof the study wp Scope of the study Methodology we Design of the study PART Ul: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW RO 1. Current overview on oral presentations LLL. A general view of oral presentation Doe 1.
Types of oral presentations 1. Structure offan oral presentation 1. The importance of English Oral presentations to students of Tour guides 1.