VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ********************* HỒ THỊ THANH THÚY USING ICT TO INCREASE GRADE 10 STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT A CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTRE OF HAI DUONG. (Sử dụng công nghệ thông tin và truyền thông để tăng động lực học Tiếng Anh cho học sinh lớp 10 ở một Trung tâm giáo dục thường xuyên tại Hải Dương. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field : English Teaching Methodology Code : 8140231.01 HA NOI - 2020 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST - GRADUATE STUDIES ********************* HỒ THỊ THANH THÚY USING ICT TO INCREASE GRADE 10 STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT A CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTRE OF HAI DUONG. (Sử dụng công nghệ thông tin và truyền thông để tăng động lực học Tiếng Anh cho học sinh lớp 10 ở một Trung tâm giáo dục thường xuyên tại Hải Dương.
MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field : English Teaching Methodology Code : 8140231. Professor NguyễnThị Mai Hương HA NOI - 2020 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority of the study project report entitled “ Using ICT to increase grade 10 students‟ motivation in learning English at a Continuing Education Centre of Hai Duong” is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts at the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies - University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University, Hanoi. I also declare that this thesis is the result of my own work and effort, and that it has not been submitted for a degree of any other universities. Where other sources of information have been used, they have been acknowledged.
Hanoi, 2018 Signature of the candidate Hồ Thị Thanh Thúy Approved by SUPERVISOR (Signature and full name) Date:…………………. i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, it is my great pleasure to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Assoc. Professor Nguyễn Thị Mai Hương for her invaluable advice, guidance, support and encouragement during my fulfilment of this minor thesis. My special thanks also go to the library staff and all lecturers of the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies - University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University, Hanoi for providing me with the necessary research materials, precious lectures and suggestions.
I am really thankful to the grade 10 students at a Continuing Education Centre who have actively participated in the research. I also would like to express my great gratitude to my family and many best friends for the love and support which make a substantial contribution to my fulfillment of this thesis. Hồ Thị Thanh Thúy ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT This research was conducted at an education center in Hai Duong, where the students‟ motivation in learning English is very low. The research, therefore, focuses on the use of ICT to increase grade 10 students‟ motivation in learning English at the Continuing Education Centre of Hai Duong.
Through an intervention based on the use of ICT the researcher set out to investigate factors that contribute to students‟ motivation in the English classroom and what ICT activities motivate the students effectively. The thesis describes a cycle of action research conducted on forty-three students of grade 10. The data were collected through students‟ journals, the teacher‟s dairies from class observations and questionnaires. The results of the research showed that the use of ICT increased the students‟ motivation in learning English in the classroom.
Some pedagogical implications are also suggested in the hope of assisting Vietnamese teachers in teaching and increasing learners‟ interest in learning English Keyword: ICT, motivation, increase, factors iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS. iv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. vi LISTS OF TABLES AND FIGURES.
vii PART I: INTRODUCTION .1 PART II: DEVELOPMENT. Theoretical background of motivation. Definition of motivation. Types of motivation.
The importance of motivation in foreign language learning. Factors affecting motivation in foreign language learning. Overview of ICT. ICT and motivation.
Studies in foreign countries. Studies in Vietnam .26 iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY. Restatement of the research questions. The setting of the study.
Data collection instruments. Pre-intervention questionnaire. The post-intervention questionnaire .36 CHAPTER 3: DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS. Findings to answer the first research question .1 Post-intervention questionnaire.
Findings to answer the second research question. The post-intervention questionnaire. The teachers‟ dairy. The students‟ journals.
What the features of ICT activities contribute to the students‟ motivation in the English classroom?. What kinds of ICT activities can increase the students‟ motivation? .54 PART III: CONCLUSION. I v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AR Action Research ICT Information and Communication Technologies EFL English as a foreign language ESL English as a second language PPT PowerPoint Presentation Teaching vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LISTS OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 1. Features of ICT activities making students motivated in English classroom.39 Table 2: Post-Questionnaire Results with the Number of Students Selecting Each Alternative and the Equivalent Percentage .44 Table 3: Post-Questionnaire Results with the Number of Students Selecting Each Alternative and the Equivalent Percentage .45 Table 4: Post-Questionnaire Results with the Number of Students Selecting Each Alternative and the Equivalent Percentage .45 Table 5: Post-Questionnaire Results with the Number of Students Selecting Each Alternative and the Equivalent Percentage .46 Chart 1 Students' attitudes towards using PPT lessons.
37 Chart 2 The comparison of Computer-based lessons and Traditional lessons. In your PPT lessons, what kind of ICT activities is the most attracive?. In your PPT lessons, what kind of ICT activities is the most effective? .48 vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Background of the study According to Frydrychov Klimova & Poulova (2014), “Motivation undoubtedly is the key in any learning”.
Therefore, motivating students in learning language plays an important role for English teachers. In order to motivate students in learning process, a lot of teachers have to use different ways of teaching or technology tools to increase students‟ motivation in English classrooms. Nowadays, we live in a world that is influenced by technology so using technology is necessary for students like Frydrychov Klimova & Poulova (2014) stated that “ ICT are as natural as breathing”. Most English teachers in the countryside teach in the classrooms with poor conditions and lack of facilities and equipment.
The researcher also teaches English with this condition. There are only two classrooms that have got projectors but they have not got computers. Moreover, students are very lazy and even they are not interested in learning English. They will get passive knowledge acquisition from the teachers and they are obligatory to have to learn to pass the exams.
Being an English teacher at a Continuing Education Centre in Hai Duong province for 12 years, I have worked with many students. Their English proficiency is very low plus their low motivation in learning English. It has been observed that they do not feel engaged in English lessons with the traditional method. At the moment, I am teaching English using the communicative syllabus for students, which provokes a desire in me to change the old teaching method and environment by using ICT to increase students‟ motivation in learning English.
Especially, using PowerPoint presentations in lessons and resources from the Internet can help students increase their motivation in learning EFL. The motivation behind this minor study comes from the researcher‟s personal observations and the fact in the classrooms that her students are bored with learning English lessons. The researcher believes that it is the duty of teachers of English to help their students increase motivation in learning English by using ICT in their lessons that students feel more fun and happier when incorporating ICT in the EFL classroom. 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com All the above reasons motivated me to conduct this action research.
By applying technology in my lessonsI hope Iwill be able to help students feel enjoyable when they learn English. Aims of the study This study aims to investigate features of ICT activities that contribute to the students‟ motivation in the English classroom. It also intends to find out what ICT activities motivate the students effectively. What features of ICT activities contribute to the students‟ motivation in the English classroom? 2.
What kinds of ICT activities can increase the students‟ motivation? 3. Scope of the study Using ICT consists of a lot of aspects. However, the researcher only focuses on using her laptop connected projector with using the software PowerPoint presentations, and using ICT activities such as visual images and videos from the Internet and computer- games to motivate students in English classrooms. In addition, due to the limited scope of this study, the participants selected were not all students at a Continuing Education Center, but only 43 students English class 10 that taught within 12 weeks and in order to solve the current problem of the classroom setting the researcher only uses Cycle I of this action research project in this.
This cycle will inform the design of the next cycles, which will be carried out but not reported in this study. Significance of the study The study will help the researcher herself realize her students‟ positive changes in learning English so that the researcher use the computer, games and PowerPoint in classrooms. From the research study, the researcher hopes that she will use her own laptop and the lectures planned with PowerPoint to increase her students‟ motivation in learning English. Method of the study The study was carried out in the hope of increasing students‟ motivation in learning English, I decided to adopt action research design because this research 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com aimed at improving teaching and learning practices.
After a preliminary investigation was implemented to identify the problems, the researcher designed PowerPoint lessons with lively images, videos and technological games to improve the current practice. The data was collected from students‟ journals, the teacher‟ dairies and questionnaires. Organization of the study The thesis consists of five main parts: PART I: INTRODUCTION This part introduces the background, purposes and aims, the scope, the significance, method and the design of the study. PART II: DEVELOPMENT This is the main part of the study.
It concludes three chapters such as Literature Review, Methodology and Findings and discussion CHAPTER 1: Literature review This chapter provides the theoretical background and related literature review of the study. CHAPTER 2: Methodology Firstly, the chapter presents two research questions. Secondly, the chapter describes the methods utilized in the study, presents the situation of teaching and learning English at a Continuing Education Center and general information about the study subjects. It also focuses on the data collection instruments and procedures.
CHAPTER 3: Data analysis and findings This chapter presents the result of 12 week of action research procedure through students‟ journals, the teacher‟s dairy, and questionnaires CHAPTER 4: Discussion This chapter discusses about the findings which answer the two research questions. PART III: Conclusion This part gives the conclusion from the results of the findings, limitations of the study and some suggestions for further research 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com PART II: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1. LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter reviews the two main concepts of motivation and ICT. In each section, the writer presents the definitions as well as theories and studies conducted on the ICT effects on learners‟ motivation.
Theoretical background of motivation 1.