VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES LƯƠNG THỊ MINI PHƯƠNG ASTUDY ON ‘THE LSE OF TASK-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO THE 2“ YEAR ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS (NGHIÊN CỨU VIỆC SỬ DỰNG PHƯƠNG PHAP DAY HOC THEO ĐƯỜNG HƯỚNG GIÁO NHIỆM VỤ TRONG DẠY HỌC KĨ NĂNG NÓI CHO SINH VIÊN NĂM THỨ HAI CHUYÊN TIẾNG ANH} MLA. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English Teaching Methodology Code: 6014.0111 HA NOI, 2014 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES LƯƠNG THỊ MINH PHƯƠNG ASTUDY ON TIIE USE OF TASK-BASED APPROACII IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO THE 2™ YEAR ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS (SGIMEN CỨỬU VIỆC SỬ DỤNG PHƯƠNG PHÁP DẠY HỌC THEO DƯỜNG HƯỚNG GIAO NHTEM VỤ TRONG DAY HOC ki NANG NÓI CHO SINH VIÊN NĂM THỨ HAI CHUYỂN ‘TLENG ANH} MLA. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English caching Mcthodology Code: 6014. Duong Thi Nu ILA NOT, 2014 CERTIFICATION OF ORIGINALITY I hereby certify that the thesis entitled “A stedy on the use of task-based approach in teaching speaking to the 2" year English majored students” is my own study in the fulfillnent of (he requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts al Faculty of Post-Graduate Studies, University of Languages and Intemational Studies, Vietnam National University, [anoi.
Hanoi, 2014 Luong Thi Minh Phuong vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: BE: Business English ELT: English language Teaching ESL: English as a Second Language ESP English for Specific Purposes TH: ‘Task-based THỊ 'Task-based Instruclion THUI: 'Task-based Language 'Teachine, TRI. Task-based Learning TBT Task-based Teaching VỤC: Vietnam Universily of Commerce Acknowledgements L would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my respectable supervisor, Dr. Duong Thi Nu for her restless and sympathetic encouragement, valuable advice and patient guidance until the completion of this study. My sincere thanks also go to my dear colleagues at Vietnam University of Commerce for all their helps, supports and encouragement when I encountered difficulties.
I wish to acknowledge my thankfulness to class 140SENPRSOL of English Fuculty at Vietnam Universi 2 of Commerce for their enthusiastic participation in the experiment. Finally, I am deeply indebted to my beloved mother, my family members and my post-graduate friends Nguyen Thi Mat Huong, Anh20B, Ta Thi Mai Huong, Anh20B, Tran Thi Long, Anh20B, Tran Thi Huyen, Anh20B, Nguyen Hoang Do, Anh20A and others for their sacrifice and encouragement and care. Rationale Courses in (listening and) speaking skills have a prominent place in language programmes around the world today. Tver-growing needs for fluency in English around (he world as a cousequence of the role of English as the world’s international language have given priority to finding more effective ways to teach English (Richards, 2009).
Vietnam is not aut of this current trends for English teaching and leaming. The needs for meeting job requirements put students majored in business to enhancing their language skills and ability for international business communication However, the current situation of teaching and learning now in Vietnam is of critical problem to solve xesulting from inappropriate teaching qmalcrials and instructional techniques. Here comes the same context to what happens in the teaching and learning HSP at Vietnam University of Commerce. The traditional method being applied now is mainly teacher-centered and lecture- oriented, which commonly results in the passivity and non-involvernent in speaking activities of students.
Krom all of the above, finding appropriate methods is an urge that the teachers here are striving for. Willis and Willis (2007-1) asseris that “. clfcctive way lo tcach a language is by engaging learners in real language use in the classroom. This is done by designing tasks — discussions, problems, games, and so on — which require leamers to use the language for themselves.” Othor language roscarchers and practitioners like Candlin (1987), Swain (1995) and IIutchinson and Walter (1987) all agree thal TRLT could bring good opporlmtics for studetits to master the language skills through numerous and useful kinds of tasks, From this suggestion and above initial problems, the author decided to develop a quasi-cxporimental rescarch on the use of task-based approach in teaching speaking for the 2™! year English majored students at Viemam University of Commerce.
Acknowledgements L would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my respectable supervisor, Dr. Duong Thi Nu for her restless and sympathetic encouragement, valuable advice and patient guidance until the completion of this study. My sincere thanks also go to my dear colleagues at Vietnam University of Commerce for all their helps, supports and encouragement when I encountered difficulties. I wish to acknowledge my thankfulness to class 140SENPRSOL of English Fuculty at Vietnam Universi 2 of Commerce for their enthusiastic participation in the experiment.
Finally, I am deeply indebted to my beloved mother, my family members and my post-graduate friends Nguyen Thi Mat Huong, Anh20B, Ta Thi Mai Huong, Anh20B, Tran Thi Long, Anh20B, Tran Thi Huyen, Anh20B, Nguyen Hoang Do, Anh20A and others for their sacrifice and encouragement and care. Rationale Courses in (listening and) speaking skills have a prominent place in language programmes around the world today. Tver-growing needs for fluency in English around (he world as a cousequence of the role of English as the world’s international language have given priority to finding more effective ways to teach English (Richards, 2009). Vietnam is not aut of this current trends for English teaching and leaming.
The needs for meeting job requirements put students majored in business to enhancing their language skills and ability for international business communication However, the current situation of teaching and learning now in Vietnam is of critical problem to solve xesulting from inappropriate teaching qmalcrials and instructional techniques. Here comes the same context to what happens in the teaching and learning HSP at Vietnam University of Commerce. The traditional method being applied now is mainly teacher-centered and lecture- oriented, which commonly results in the passivity and non-involvernent in speaking activities of students. Krom all of the above, finding appropriate methods is an urge that the teachers here are striving for.
Willis and Willis (2007-1) asseris that “. clfcctive way lo tcach a language is by engaging learners in real language use in the classroom. This is done by designing tasks — discussions, problems, games, and so on — which require leamers to use the language for themselves.” Othor language roscarchers and practitioners like Candlin (1987), Swain (1995) and IIutchinson and Walter (1987) all agree thal TRLT could bring good opporlmtics for studetits to master the language skills through numerous and useful kinds of tasks, From this suggestion and above initial problems, the author decided to develop a quasi-cxporimental rescarch on the use of task-based approach in teaching speaking for the 2™! year English majored students at Viemam University of Commerce. Abstracts The foous of this study was on the use of task-based approach in teaching speaking for the 2°4 year Fnglish majored students al Viebwan University of Commerce.
A one group pro-test/post-test quasi- experimental design was employed with the participation of 40 students from English Faculty. results showed thal lhe task-based approach had a positive impact on students’ speaking achievement after the experiment. Another instrument, the questionnaire, was administered ta the participants in order io draw on qualitative data. The data revealed the positive consequences for significant changes in students’ learning attitude and motivation.
The task-based project also welcomed favorable cvaluations from the students that would be of great help to the future applications of task-based language teaching. vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: BE: Business English ELT: English language Teaching ESL: English as a Second Language ESP English for Specific Purposes TH: ‘Task-based THỊ 'Task-based Instruclion THUI: 'Task-based Language 'Teachine, TRI. Task-based Learning TBT Task-based Teaching VỤC: Vietnam Universily of Commerce Abstracts The foous of this study was on the use of task-based approach in teaching speaking for the 2°4 year Fnglish majored students al Viebwan University of Commerce. A one group pro-test/post-test quasi- experimental design was employed with the participation of 40 students from English Faculty.
results showed thal lhe task-based approach had a positive impact on students’ speaking achievement after the experiment. Another instrument, the questionnaire, was administered ta the participants in order io draw on qualitative data. The data revealed the positive consequences for significant changes in students’ learning attitude and motivation. The task-based project also welcomed favorable cvaluations from the students that would be of great help to the future applications of task-based language teaching.
Contents Pages Acknowledgment. Abstract Tables of contents. List of Abbreviations. List of tables.
PART A: INTRODUCTION Rationale Aims of the study wwe Scape of the sindy Significanes of the sluty Method of the sluty Awe Organization of the steady PART B: DEVELOPMENT 5 CHAPTER L: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW .2 Task-based language teaching 9 1.1 Task-bascd language teaching .2Definitions of Tasks within TBI .3TBL ina Business English course .4Framework for Task-based Instruction (TBI) 1,3 Advantages of TBLT .4 Misanderstanding about TBLT .5 Theoretical justificafion for FBLT. CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHOD .1 Contest of the study - - - ¬- 2.1 Quasi-experimental Research - - - cose AD 2.4 Duta Collectian Procedures - - 22 2.5 Duta Analysix Methods 22 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 3. Students’ improvement in learning speaking. Contents Pages Acknowledgment.
Abstract Tables of contents. List of Abbreviations. List of tables. PART A: INTRODUCTION Rationale Aims of the study wwe Scape of the sindy Significanes of the sluty Method of the sluty Awe Organization of the steady PART B: DEVELOPMENT 5 CHAPTER L: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW .2 Task-based language teaching 9 1.1 Task-bascd language teaching .2Definitions of Tasks within TBI .3TBL ina Business English course .4Framework for Task-based Instruction (TBI) 1,3 Advantages of TBLT .4 Misanderstanding about TBLT .5 Theoretical justificafion for FBLT.
CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHOD .1 Contest of the study - - - ¬- 2.1 Quasi-experimental Research - - - cose AD 2.4 Duta Collectian Procedures - - 22 2.5 Duta Analysix Methods 22 CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 3. Students’ improvement in learning speaking. vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: BE: Business English ELT: English language Teaching ESL: English as a Second Language ESP English for Specific Purposes TH: ‘Task-based THỊ 'Task-based Instruclion THUI: 'Task-based Language 'Teachine, TRI. Task-based Learning TBT Task-based Teaching VỤC: Vietnam Universily of Commerce Acknowledgements L would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my respectable supervisor, Dr.
Duong Thi Nu for her restless and sympathetic encouragement, valuable advice and patient guidance until the completion of this study. My sincere thanks also go to my dear colleagues at Vietnam University of Commerce for all their helps, supports and encouragement when I encountered difficulties. I wish to acknowledge my thankfulness to class 140SENPRSOL of English Fuculty at Vietnam Universi 2 of Commerce for their enthusiastic participation in the experiment. Finally, I am deeply indebted to my beloved mother, my family members and my post-graduate friends Nguyen Thi Mat Huong, Anh20B, Ta Thi Mai Huong, Anh20B, Tran Thi Long, Anh20B, Tran Thi Huyen, Anh20B, Nguyen Hoang Do, Anh20A and others for their sacrifice and encouragement and care.
Acknowledgements L would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my respectable supervisor, Dr. Duong Thi Nu for her restless and sympathetic encouragement, valuable advice and patient guidance until the completion of this study. My sincere thanks also go to my dear colleagues at Vietnam University of Commerce for all their helps, supports and encouragement when I encountered difficulties. I wish to acknowledge my thankfulness to class 140SENPRSOL of English Fuculty at Vietnam Universi 2 of Commerce for their enthusiastic participation in the experiment.
Finally, I am deeply indebted to my beloved mother, my family members and my post-graduate friends Nguyen Thi Mat Huong, Anh20B, Ta Thi Mai Huong, Anh20B, Tran Thi Long, Anh20B, Tran Thi Huyen, Anh20B, Nguyen Hoang Do, Anh20A and others for their sacrifice and encouragement and care. Acknowledgements L would like to express my most sincere gratitude to my respectable supervisor, Dr.