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Luận văn thạc sĩ nghiên cứu vnu ulis a study on activities to motivate first year non english major students in english, khảo sát thực trạng, phân tích nguyên nhân, đề xuất giải

2017

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Mục lục chi tiết

DECLARATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES

PART A. INTRODUCTION

A.1. Aims of study and research questions

A.2. Significance of the study

A.3. Scope of the study

A.4. Method of the study

A.5. Design of the study

CHAPTER 1. LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1. Background of speaking

1.2. Relation between activities and communicative activities

1.3. Communicative language teaching approach

1.4. Definition of communicative activities

1.5. Features of communicative activities

1.6. Purposes of communicative activities

1.7. Sample communicative activities

1.8. Definition of motivation. Dornyei's (1994a) extended framework

CHAPTER 3. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

3.1. Results of teachers and students‘ survey questionnaire

3.2. Findings and discussion

3.3. Findings from classroom observation

3.4. Findings from questionnaire survey

IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMENDATION. IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMENDATION

I.1. Some kinds of effective communicative activities

I.2. Question and answer

I.3. Some considerations and suggestions on using communicative activities

I.4. Limitations and suggestions for further research

SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE (FOR STUDENTS)

APPENDIX III

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION CHECKLISTS

APPENDIX IV

RESULT FROM CLASSROOM OBSERVATION CHECKLIST

APPENDIX VI

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES ******************** QUÀNG THỊ BÍCH NGỌC A STUDY ON ACTIVITIES TO MOTIVATE FIRST-YEAR, NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS IN ENGLISH SPEAKING LESSONS AT HAUI Nghiên cứu về các hoạt động được sử dụng để thúc đẩy sinh viên năm thứ nhất không chuyên tiếng Anh trong các bài học nói tiếng Anh tại trường Đại Học Công Nghiệp Hà Nội M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 HANOI – 2017 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES ******************** QUÀNG THỊ BÍCH NGỌC A STUDY ON ACTIVITIES TO MOTIVATE FIRST-YEAR, NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS IN ENGLISH SPEAKING LESSONS AT HAUI Nghiên cứu về các hoạt động được sử dụng để thúc đẩy sinh viên năm thứ nhất không chuyên tiếng Anh trong các bài học nói tiếng Anh tại trường Đại Học Công Nghiệp Hà Nội M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 60140111 Supervisior: Dr. Đỗ Tuấn Minh HANOI – 2017 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION I, Quang Thi Bich Ngoc, hereby certify that my thesis submitted for the Faculty of Post- Graduate Studies, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, apart from the help recognized, is my own work. The substance of this thesis has not, wholly or in part, been summited for a degree to any other formal course of study. Hanoi, 2017 Signature Quang Thi Bich Ngoc i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to express my special and sincere thanks to my supervisors, Dr. Do Tuan Minh, who gave me enthusiastic instructions, precious support and critical feedback on the construction of the study. This has always been one of decisive factors in the completion of this thesis. Second, I also express my profound gratitude to all doctors, lectures and staff members of the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, University of Foreign Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi for their valuable lectures and useful advice that are a great help to fulfill the study. Next, I would like to send my deep sense of thanks to the teachers and the first- year students of Non- major English Division- Faculty of Foreign Language- Hanoi University of Industry for their cooperation and the valuable information they provided in my research field. Furthermore, I would like to send my heartfelt gratitude to my family and all of my friends who have great source of endless care and support. Last but not least, I am also thankful to many writers whose important ideas and notions are exploited and developed in the study. ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT Modern teaching methods of foreign languages count on involving the use of different organizational forms of activities which support such a development. The way teachers organize these activities and perceive the individual steps connected with the organization of activities may essentially influence the eventual efficiency of the activity and the consequent development of speaking skills. In other words, motivated activities are essentially provided to for the needs of teaching English to communicate successfully. In fact, there a many problems for teachers and students in applying these communicative activities to enhance speaking skills for first year students at Non- major English Division- Faculty of Foreign Language of Hanoi University of Industry. Therefore, the research approach undertaken by this study combined between qualitative and quantitative methods. To seek answers for the issue, data elicited through survey questionnaires and classroom observation from 150 first- year, non-major English students and 30 teachers at NED were collected and 15 English lessons are observed and analyzed in the forms of frequency, percentage, charts and tables. Findings from the research show the real situation of teaching and learning speaking skill as well indicate the most frequent, effective activities are applied at NED. According to the basic findings, some suggested communicative activities are presented with appropriate samples in the part of recommendation of this study. Then some suggestions for teachers while using the activities are also given. iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION .III TABLE OF CONTENTS . IV LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES . VII PART A: INTRODUCTION . Aims of study and research questions . Significance of the study . Scope of the study . Method of the study . Design of the study .5 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW . Background of speaking . Relation between activities and communicative activities.1 Communicative language teaching approach . Definition of communicative activities . Features of communicative activities . Purposes of communicative activities . Sample communicative activities . Definition of motivation. Dornyei's (1994a) extended framework .24 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION .25 iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Results of teachers and students‘ survey questionnaire . Findings and discussion . Findings from classroom observation. Findings from questionnaire survey .39 IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMENDATION .1 Some kinds of effective communicative activities . Question and answer . Some considerations and suggestions on using communicative activities . Limitations and suggestions for further research . IV SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE (FOR STUDENTS). IV APPENDIX III . VII CLASSROOM OBSERVATION CHECKLISTS . VII APPENDIX IV . IX RESULT FROM CLASSROOM OBSERVATION CHECKLIST . XI APPENDIX VI . XIII v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CLT: Communicative language teaching L2: Second language ESL: English as a second language ELT: English language teaching NED: Non- major English Division FFL: Faculty of Foreign Language HaUI: Hanoi University of Industry vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES Figure 1: Teachers‘ attitude towards the role of English speaking skills . 25 Figure 2: Students‘ attitudes and their feelings towards learning speaking skills . 26 Figure 3: Teacher‘s assessment towards students‘ speaking ability . 27 Figure 4: Possible factors to motivate students speaking in classroom . 28 Figure 5: Teacher‘s viewpoints about the reason why students afraid of speaking and student‘s actual difficulties in speaking English . 29 Figure 6: Teachers' attitudes towards activities in the textbook . 30 Figure 7: Teachers‘ time to use communicative activities and the frequent forms that they usually organize. 31 Figure 8: Teachers' kinds of communicate activity applied in lesson and students‘ activity favorites . 32 Table 0: Components of foreign language learning motivation (Dornyei, 1994a: 280)……………………………………………………………………………….17 Table 1: Teachers‘ difficulties in applying communicative activities . 32 Table 2: Students‘ difficulties in practicing communicative activities. 33 vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART A: INTRODUCTION 1, Rationale As for Vietnamese, English communicative skill is important because Vietnam is one of the members of many international organizations such as ASEAN, WTO and UNESCO. Besides, Vietnam currently has welcomed a number of foreign visitors and businessmen to investigate develop a lot of big companies and create great working opportunities for thousands of Vietnamese workers. Furthermore, the needs of studying abroad and working in another country also increase for years. Briefly, ―speaking skill is an essential process for learning English. Performances through speaking are an indicator of success in career and finally in life‖ (Nunan, 1991). Thus, it is essential to renovate and adapt the suitable teaching English methods in every classroom. Admittedly, as regards to the development of speaking skills during a teaching- learning process, ―most lessons of English are carried out through teacher- centered approaches, some teacher have been found to focus on language teaching based on grammar instead of exposing the learners to language teaching‖ (Nunan, 2004). ―Teacher‘s teaching of grammar only and involving the learners in communicative English often give a negative impression to students‖ (Ruso, 2007). Thus, ―there are recommended activities to aid the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information which have been proved to make learning easier, faster, enjoyable, self- directed, effective and transferable to new situations‖ (Oxford, 1990). Therefore, teachers should benefit from some approaches by using their techniques and some good activities to help students master their speaking skills. In fact, to motivate student effectively, there are a number of factors for instance, the number of interlocutors, designing activities, interaction patterns, an amount of information processed, time span, teacher and student, but it is impossible to discuss all the factors related to this process in the thesis; therefore, a concentration will be focused only on the effective organization of some communicative activities. This 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com study, therefore, tries to find out applicability of some potential activities in teaching speaking skills and some suggestions used to create English speaking lessons with full of energy and a great deal of motivation for first-year, non-English major students at Hanoi University of Industry. Briefly, all of the problems mentioned above have studied further on ―A study on activities to motivate first- year, non- English major students in English speaking lessons at HaUI” 2. Aims of study and research questions This study aimed to address the following issues:  Investigating the importance of and the difficulties in applying activities in teaching speaking process to non- English major students in Vietnam in general.  Discovering the applicability of some useful activities to improve English speaking skills for first year, non-English major students in Hanoi University of Industry. In order to fulfil these aims, the study focuses on answering the research questions 1, What are the most frequently used activities to motivate students at FFL- HaUI in speaking lessons? 2, To what extent, are these activities effective in motivating students at FFL- HaUI? 3. Significance of the study As studying on the effective activities and motivation for students in speaking skills, this work would be benefit for the target population, their English teacher and other interested in the field. In the first place, as the first- year student, most of them have to face with the new lifestyle in their universities, and then their unconfident feelings of studying with new teachers and friends are expected to be concerned. This study is conducted with a hope to provide the friendly study environment for them and help students can speak English naturally and confidently. 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com As for English teachers, the problems which teachers frequently concern about are exploring the effective activities to motivate their students in speaking English lessons. Several activities are used during lessons to help and guide students in speaking skills such as role play, storytelling, reporting, and interview. Each activity will have various impacts on developing speaking skills for a group of particular students, but not for everyone. Hence, it is very difficult to clarify the best activities applied for the first- year, non-English major students in FFL to attain the best result in a long-term studying. However, they could base on the results of this work to further understand their students‘ difficulties and it is more compatible and constructive for their students‘ motivation by improve better teaching methods. Last but not least, regarding the researchers who are interested in the same or related field, the researcher hope this paper could work as a reliable source of reference and a basis for them to develop their works from. Scope of the study It would be too ambitious for this minor thesis to cover all aspects of all factors in teaching and learning English speaking. Thus, this study only focused on some useful activities that motivate non- English major students of HaUI and how well the teachers of FFL apply them in their English lessons. Method of the study The methods conducted in this study to find out the answers to the aim of research questions are both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Questionnaires and classroom observations are utilized to collect data for the whole paper.

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