TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1 LIST OF CHARTS .5 LIST OF TABLES .1 The background to the study: .2 Rationale of the study. Aims of the study:. Scope of the study:.
Structure of the thesis: .11 Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND .1 Definitions of key terms:. Theoretical background of peer teaching: .2 Types of peer teaching activities. Theoretical background of ESP teaching:. What is ESP?.
The challenges of ESP:. Major issues in ESP teaching in light of the learner – centered approach. Characteristics of ESP:. Types of activities:.
Features of ESP courses:. Roles of ESP teachers and students in peer teaching process. The roles of ESP teachers in peer teaching process:. The roles of ESP students in peer teaching process:.
Implementing peer teaching:. Peer teaching technique:. Way of handling a peer teaching:. Values of peer teaching:.
Peer teaching techniques as an effectiveness techniques in teaching process:. Materials and procedures for data collections. The data analysis: .35 Chapter 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION. Students‟ perception towards peer teaching practices in ESP classes.
ESP Students are interested in peer teaching techniques. ESP students‟ evaluation is about the importance of peer teaching. ESP students‟ opinions on the hypothesis that if ESP teachers do not conduct peer teaching techniques, ESP lessons will be less successful. ESP students‟ opinion would like their teachers to apply peer teaching techniques in ESP classes.
ESP students‟ willingness to participate in peer teaching practices. ESP students‟ confidence when presenting in ESP classes. ESP students‟ willingness to response when their partners present. ESP students‟ attitude towards peer teaching practices in ESP classes:.
ESP students‟ attitude towards peer teaching practices in ESP class. Tools of ESP students‟ participant in peer teaching techniques. Reasons why ESP students like using peer teaching techniques. How ESP teachers correct ESP students‟ mistake when ESP students present.
Summary of results related to students. Teachers‟ perceptions towards peer teaching practices in ESP classes. The overall teachers‟ perceptions toward peer teaching in ESP classes. The necessity for using peer teaching in ESP Classes.
The teachers‟ opinions would like to apply peer teaching to every ESP classes. The teachers‟ reasons for using peer teaching techniques in ESP classes. The selection of groups for peer teaching. Number of students in each group.
The allocation time for each group‟s presentation. Teachers‟ general attitudes towards peer teaching techniques. ESP teachers‟ general attitudes towards peer teaching. Tools of peer teaching adopted by ESP teachers.
The frequency of teachers‟ use of peer teaching techniques in ESP classes. How ESP teachers deal with students‟ errors in their presentation. Teachers‟ evaluations on the effects of peer teaching techniques on their teaching ESP. The effects of peer teaching.
The advantages of using peer teaching. ESP teachers‟ evaluation on using peer teaching. ESP teachers often have some problems when employing peer teaching. How ESP teachers overcome above problems.
ESP teachers should do to improve peer teaching process. How administrators do to improve peer teaching process. Summary related to the teachers: .71 Chapter 5: CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS. Summary the finding:.
What are the students‟ and teachers‟ perceptions toward peer teaching in practices in ESP classes?. What are the students‟ and teachers attitude their current practice of peer teaching in the ESP classes at Thua Thien Hue College of Education?. What is the teachers‟ evaluation of the effect of the peer teaching and some solutions to enhance the use of peer teaching techniques on their teaching ESP process?. For ESP teachers:.
For ESP students: .79 APPENDICES Appendix 1: Teacher‟s questionnaires Appendix 2: Student‟s questionnaires Appendix 3: Questions for Interviews Appendix 4: Observation Sheet LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS EAP: English for Academic Purposes EBE: English for Business and Economics EFL: English as a Foreign Language EOP: English for Occupational Purposes ESP: English for General Purposes ESS: English for Social Studies EST: English for Science and Technology 4 LIST OF CHARTS Chart 4.1: ESP Students are interested in peer teaching techniques Chart 4.2: ESP students‟ evaluation is about the importance of peer teaching Chart 4.3: ESP students‟ opinions on the hypothesis that if ESP teachers do not conduct peer teaching techniques, ESP lessons will be less successful Chart 4.4: ESP students‟ opinion would like their teacher to apply Peer teaching in ESP classes Chart 4.5: ESP students‟ willingness to participate into peer teaching practices Chart 4.6: ESP students‟ confidence when presenting in ESP class Chart 4.7: ESP students‟ willingness to respond when their partners present Chart 4.8: The overall teachers‟ perceptions toward peer teaching in ESP classes Chart 4.9: The necessity for using peer teaching in ESP Classes Chart 4.10: The teachers‟ opinions would like to apply peer teaching to every ESP class Chart 4.11: The number of students in each group Chart 4.12: The allocation time for each group‟s presentation Chart 4.13: The frequency of teachers‟ use of peer teaching techniques in ESP classes Chart 4.14: ESP teachers‟ evaluation on using peer teaching 5 LIST OF TABLES Table 4.1: ESP students‟ attitude towards peer teaching practices in ESP class Table 4.2: Tools of ESP students‟ participant in peer teaching techniques Table 4.3: Reasons why ESP students like using peer teaching techniques Table 4.4: How ESP teachers correct ESP students when ESP students present Table 4.5: ESP students‟ suggestions to improve peer teaching techniques Table 4.6: The teachers‟ reasons for using Peer teaching techniques in ESP classes Table 4.7: The selection of groups for peer teaching Table 4.8: ESP teachers‟ general attitudes towards peer teaching Table 4.9: Tools of peer teaching adopted by ESP teachers Table 4.10: How ESP teachers deal with students‟ errors in their presentation Table 4.11: The effects of peer teaching Table 4.12: The advantages of using peer teaching Table 4.13: ESP teachers often have some problems when employing peer teaching Table 4.14: How ESP teachers to overcome above problems Table 4.15: What ESP teachers should do to improve peer teaching process Table 4.16: What administrators do to improve peer teaching process 6 ABSTRACT This thesis is set out to study the effectiveness of peer teaching techniques in teaching ESP classes at Thua Thien Hue College of Education. The aim of the study is to determine whether peer teaching techniques are practiced and to find out whether or not the teachers and students are aware of the crucial role of these techniques in the teaching ESP lessons. The participants for this study are Vietnamese teachers of English and students in ESP classes at Thua Thien Hue College of Education. Data are gathered from the questionnaires, interviews with the teachers, and class observations.
The results collected reveal a positive outlook towards peer teaching techniques. Both ESP teachers and students benefit from the advantages and usefulness of peer teaching session. The findings are in accordance with the literature review on peer teaching techniques. However, the factor of teaching ESP in a classroom should be considered since peer teaching techniques are the foreign teaching techniques and the teachers tend to violate one of peer teaching.
Suggestions are then given to enhance the effectiveness of peer teaching in ESP classroom.1 The background to the study: English language teaching and learning have been of great interest for both researchers and teachers. Some new approaches of how to teach satisfy learners‟ desire in language use. Peer teaching, hence, increases students‟ involvement in learning. Actually, with peer teaching, one of the processes, help the English learners collaborate with their peers and teachers, they will join the community of knowledgeable peers, generate and test new ideas and participate in the consensus over what is regarded as reality and make good practice.
It should be noted that peer teaching, when incorporated into the school system, is just one approach among many to help students learn and enjoy learning. Peer teaching is a suite of practices in which peers instruct each other in a purpose – driven, meaningful interaction and is becoming an increasingly important part of many courses, and it is being used in a variety of contexts and disciplines in many countries. In peer teaching, students learn through doing tasks, organized by teachers, but brought about through a variety of situations and tasks in which students work together. In fact, peer teaching is a process for students and teachers to upgrade themselves.
Reply on students to teach their peers by no means repudiates the role and duty of the teacher. In fact, the teacher, as a mentor and trainer, bears a heavy responsibility to ensure that the student teachers first understand the concepts of the lessons themselves. Peer teaching is a method that teachers can use to save teachers‟ time from editing tasks, thus freeing them to spend more time for more helpful guidance and instruction and to provide feedback from fellow students, which might be perceive as more helpful than from teachers, to use multiple readers which may give students a sense of a wider audience, to enhance students attitudes towards writing as a result of socially supportive peers and learn more about writing by having to read and edit each others‟ written work (Davies and Omberg 1986). From this view, we see that peer teaching plays an important role in teaching process.
More importantly, both teachers and learners can improve their skills and peer teaching will refer to students teaching students in situations that are planned 8 and directed by a teacher (Ehly and Larsen 1980, p. Some methodologists have written about peer teaching. Mynard et al (2006) argued that peer teaching was the developing networking opportunities, building confidence and self-esteem; enhancing team – working skills. And Dueck (1993) pointed out peer teaching refers to the process of having learners help each other on a one – to – one basis.
Apart from Whitman (1988), many other experts on methodology had a profound research into this matter. All of them had great contribution to perfect this important process in language teaching, making it easy for language teachers to apply the process to their lessons. Truly, these writers have laid foundation for the application of peer teaching process in ESP class. Their books and studies have, in fact, played an important role in making this study completed.
Goldschmid & Whitman(1988) assert that group peer teaching is more effective than individual. The author of this research totally agrees with the saying that “two heads know more than one.” In this sense, peer teaching is really a useful technique when working in groups to generate ideas. There has been empirical studies conducted concerning the effectiveness of peer teaching techniques, and they have laid the foundation with great contribution to perfect the techniques in language teaching as well as provided useful awareness of the limitations of the technique (Whitman, 1988; Goldschmid, 1976, Lyn Longaterri et al, 2002 etc). It is important to point out here that the intention of this research is to investigate how effective the peer teaching techniques are presently used in Vietnamese college, especially at the ESP classes.
The exploratory research then sheds light on ways that can enhance the value of this technique by developing skills in organizing and planning activities, working collaboratively with others in teaching English for General Purposes (ESP) to ESP classes at Thua Thien Hue College of Education. The author of this research hopes to gain some insights into this technique employment to draw out some possible pedagogic procedures in language teaching/learning at colleges when employing the technique.2 Rationale of the study This research was carried out for the following reasons: Firstly, peer teaching process is considered to be very useful to English Foreign Language teachers. Secondly, peer teaching is best used in conjunction with other teaching and learning methods.