VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANQGT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES LUÂN TII PHƯƠNG HẢO THE CURRENT SITUATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING TO THE 10-FORM STUDENTS AT DONG HY SECONDARY SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY Nghiên cứu thực rụng dạy tẳng Anh cho học sinh lớp 10 của Trường THPT Đông Hỹ: Nghiên cửa trường hợp điễn hình M. MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENCLISH TEACHING METHODGLOCY CODE: 60 1418 SUPERVISOR: Prof. HOANG VAN VAN IIA NOI - 2010 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HANQGT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES LUÂN TII PHƯƠNG HẢO THE CURRENT SITUATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING TO THE 10-FORM STUDENTS AT DONG HY SECONDARY SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY Nghiên cứu thực rụng dạy tẳng Anh cho học sinh lớp 10 của Trường THPT Đông Hỹ: Nghiên cửa trường hợp điễn hình M. MINOR THESIS FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 66 14 10 HA NOI - 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND TABLES: PART A: INFRODUCTION 1.
Aims of the study te TL Scope of the study .cesscssessesseessasssssesseseesennsssssssesersenassassavasnsessensteetaassavanvoesserens he ba IV. Methods of the study .scenesenmenienriinnentnen V Design of the study PART B: DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1, Definition ofa communicative activity.2, Characteristics of a good communicative acfiViEY. Communicative language teaching 1. Brief Inslory of CLT 1.
The principles of CLT 1.4, The charaeteristies of CLT. CondiHons related to CÍƑT. Advantages of using CLT 1.4, Problems of applying CLT 1. Previous studies related fø CLT.
Chapter 2: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2. Background of the study 2. Desoription of the studentls. Description of the teachers 2.
Setting of the study 2 teaching at the secondary school through three school years. In this study, as a teacher of the school, I would like to investigate the current teaching situation of the 10” form students at Dong Hy Sceondary School. Aims of the study ‘The study is aimed at finding out the English language teaching and learning at Dong Hy Secandary School in Thai Nguyen. It is expected that the study will he referred to testimony necessity in improving those facts.
‘'o be more specific of purposes in this study are: + To im igate the current situation of English language teaching al Dong Hy Secondary School by focusing on studying the following conditions; the teachers with their perceptions of CLT and their CLT practical application, the examination, the new English lex book, the students and the teaching and learning environment - To find out difficulties that the teachers of English at Dong Hy Secondary School experience when applying CLT - To offer some suggestions on how to improve the quality of teaching English when using CLT TIL Scope of the study The study focuses on the investigation of teaching English at Dong Hy Secondary School in ‘thai Nguyen when applying CLY approach. As set in the aims of the study, I Himited lo focus on studying the following contents: the (cachers wilh their percaptions of CLT and their CLT practical application, the examination, the new English textbook, the students and the teaching and learning environment Due to the limit of time and within the scope of an M.A minor thesis, only grade 10 students and six teachers at Dong Hy Sccondary Schools in Thai Nguyen are chosen as the participants of the study. Methods of the study In order to complete this thesis, the quantitative method was used to collect the mecdod dai from the participants = The questionaire was for six teachers al Dong Hy Secondary School - The class observations were conducted, Three classrooms were chosen at random for observation (with no attempt to select the best or the most experienced teachers as well LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CLT Communicative Language Teaching ELT English Language ‘Teaching DH Dong Hy as the best or the weakest students) All comments, remarks, recommendations, and conclusions given in this study were ‘based on the data analysis. Design of the study The thesis consists of three parts.
Part A - INTRODUCTION- Presents the rationale, the aim, scope, methods, and design of the sludy Part B - DEVELOPMENT- consists of throe chuplers. Chapter one-Literanwe Review. Deals with the theories related Ip the study: Communicative activities, Communicative language teaching, Advantages of using CLT in teaching foreign language, Problems of the application of CLT in teaching English as a foreign language, Previous studies refating to CL application, Conditions related to CLT application. Chapter two-Research methodologies- Presents the methodology performed in the study.
It provides information about the participants, the instrumentation. Data collection and findings arc also presented in this chapter. Chapter three-¥indings and recommendations, Discusses the data of the study and propose recommendations for applying CLIT in teaching English to grade10 students at DH secondary school Part C: CONCLUSION- Summarizes all the key issues as well as the limitations of the study and suggestions for further study. LIST OF TABLES ‘Table 1: ‘Teachers’ ages.
Table 2: Tcachors’ ycars of caching English Table 3: Tcachers’ CLT training background, Table 4: Teachers’ opinions about method. Table 5: ‘Teachers’ information about the enrichment of knowledge on CLT Table 6: Tcacers` fonuation aboul perecption ơn CLLT. Table 7: Teachers’ point of view abouf CLT. Table 8: Teachers’ understanding about CLT Table 9: The cqucncy oŸ activitics uscd in thc cÏassroorn.
Table 10; Teachers” error correctiơn. ‘Table 11: ‘Ihe frequency of change the position of students” seat, tables and benches for the lesson situations. Table 12: Teachers’ opinions about the currenfy- used texfbook. oi ‘Table 13: ‘Teachers’ difficulties in their teaching Table 14: Teachers? sessment of their application of CLT Table 15: Classroom observation (teacher 1).
‘Table 16: Classroom observation (teacher 2) Table 17: Classroom observation (leacher 3). LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CLT Communicative Language Teaching ELT English Language ‘Teaching DH Dong Hy PART B: DEVELOPMENT CIIAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter briefly covers the concepls relaled to the study: communicative activities, cotmmunivalive language leaching, advantages of using CLT in teaching forcign language, problems of the application of CLT in teaching English as a foreign language, previons studies relating to CL application, conditions related to CL application 1. Communicative activities ‘The aim of a CA in class is to get leamers to use the language they are leaming to intcracl in roatistic and moaninghid ways, usually invotvin cxchanging of information. Thus, in order to omanize and improve CA the following should be taken into consideration.
Definition of a communicative activity According to Harmer (1991), communicative activities are the ones which involve Jearning through using language for a communicative purpose, ‘They are the activities in which loamers usc the linguistic repertaire they have teaml in order to communicate specific meanings for specitic purposes. Sharing the same definition, Scrivener (1994) claimed that communicative activities are classroom activities designed to get learners to spoak and listen io one another. In other words, whatever activily the students are involved in, if it is to be genuinely communicative and if it is really promoting language use, the students should have a desire to communicate. If they do not want to be involved in communication then that communication will probably not be cfffective, The students should have some kind of comamnicative purpose, That is to say, thay should use language in some way to achieve an objective.
‘Then their attention should be centered on the content of what is being said or written nol the language form thal is boing used. LIST OF TABLES ‘Table 1: ‘Teachers’ ages. Table 2: Tcachors’ ycars of caching English Table 3: Tcachers’ CLT training background, Table 4: Teachers’ opinions about method. Table 5: ‘Teachers’ information about the enrichment of knowledge on CLT Table 6: Tcacers` fonuation aboul perecption ơn CLLT.
Table 7: Teachers’ point of view abouf CLT. Table 8: Teachers’ understanding about CLT Table 9: The cqucncy oŸ activitics uscd in thc cÏassroorn. Table 10; Teachers” error correctiơn. ‘Table 11: ‘Ihe frequency of change the position of students” seat, tables and benches for the lesson situations.
Table 12: Teachers’ opinions about the currenfy- used texfbook. oi ‘Table 13: ‘Teachers’ difficulties in their teaching Table 14: Teachers? sessment of their application of CLT Table 15: Classroom observation (teacher 1). ‘Table 16: Classroom observation (teacher 2) Table 17: Classroom observation (leacher 3). PART A: INTRODUCTION L Retionale of the stuty It can’t be denied that today Unglish is the most widely used means of communication around the world.
English is importanl in almost all sectors, including education, business, industry, and science. About fifteen years ago, English is compulsory given in our secondary school curriculum and widely taught in our colleges and universities Many different methodologies have been uscd by English language teaching in our country; such as, the grammar translation, the direct method. however our students still find it hard to cormmmmicale in real life situalion. Sa speaking skill, production and interaction skill, is especially paid attention to.
Many years ago, teaching language and especially teaching English in Vietnam exporicncad many difficultics and we could sce this clcarly im the sccondary school. The curriculum is not unified, Tests are not suitable to teaching so it makes learners despondent in studying, ‘Teachers are not adequately trained, Students lack motive leaming. Books are not communication-based. Leamers do not have many chances to use language to communicats with cach other although they remember a let of words, structures and understand grammar well.
Teachers mainly teach vocabulary and grammar, ete. However in 2006, the New English textbook for grade 10 (English 10) has been used to tcach next to English 6, English 7, English 8 and English 9 instead of the old textbooks. English 10 is compiled based on “Themes” and follows two current approaches the jearner-cenlered approach and conmuunivalive language Isaching (CLT). English 10 contains sixteen teaching units.
Each teaching unit consists of five 45-munnte periods with four skills: reading, speaking, listening, and writing skill, and a language focus lesson. In the units, teachers teach leamers to use language finently in communication stead of presenting the cxael language about grammar, vocabulary. This new trend has opened more chances for students to improve their spoken language. Students have chances to Jisten to both native and non-native English speakers from the tapes, CDs accompanied with the book, In order to having a took at situation realistically about the uscftdness and application of the new method - Communicative language teactting (CLI) in English language as the best or the weakest students) All comments, remarks, recommendations, and conclusions given in this study were ‘based on the data analysis.
Design of the study The thesis consists of three parts. Part A - INTRODUCTION- Presents the rationale, the aim, scope, methods, and design of the sludy Part B - DEVELOPMENT- consists of throe chuplers. Chapter one-Literanwe Review. Deals with the theories related Ip the study: Communicative activities, Communicative language teaching, Advantages of using CLT in teaching foreign language, Problems of the application of CLT in teaching English as a foreign language, Previous studies refating to CL application, Conditions related to CLT application.
Chapter two-Research methodologies- Presents the methodology performed in the study. It provides information about the participants, the instrumentation. Data collection and findings arc also presented in this chapter. Chapter three-¥indings and recommendations, Discusses the data of the study and propose recommendations for applying CLIT in teaching English to grade10 students at DH secondary school Part C: CONCLUSION- Summarizes all the key issues as well as the limitations of the study and suggestions for further study.
LIST OF TABLES ‘Table 1: ‘Teachers’ ages. Table 2: Tcachors’ ycars of caching English Table 3: Tcachers’ CLT training background, Table 4: Teachers’ opinions about method. Table 5: ‘Teachers’ information about the enrichment of knowledge on CLT Table 6: Tcacers` fonuation aboul perecption ơn CLLT. Table 7: Teachers’ point of view abouf CLT.
Table 8: Teachers’ understanding about CLT Table 9: The cqucncy oŸ activitics uscd in thc cÏassroorn. Table 10; Teachers” error correctiơn.