VIETNAM NATIONAL UNTVERSITY, IANOT KRSITY OF LANGUAGES ANTE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES — ~000--- NGUYEN THANH THUY FACTORS AFFECTING TIIE PARTICIPATION IN SPFAKING ACTIVITIES OF THE FIRST YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT HAIDUONG MEDICAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY AND SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS (NGHIÊN CỨU NHỮNG NHAN T6 ANH HUONG TOI VIEC THAM GIA VÀO HOẠT ĐỘNG NÓI CỦA SINH VIÊN KHÔNG CHUYÊN NGÀNH TIÉNG ANH NAM THU NHÁT TẠI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC KỸ THUẬT Y TẾ HÃI DUONG VA MOT SỐ GIẢI PHÁP KHẢ THỊ) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS: FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 6U 14 1111 Hanoi, 2015 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNTVERSITY, IANOT KRSITY OF LANGUAGES ANTE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES — ~000--- NGUYEN THANH THUY FACTORS AFFECTING TIIE PARTICIPATION IN SPFAKING ACTIVITIES OF THE FIRST YEAR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT HAIDUONG MEDICAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY AND SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS (NGHIÊN CỨU NHỮNG NHAN T6 ANH HUONG TOI VIEC THAM GIA VÀO HOẠT ĐỘNG NÓI CỦA SINH VIÊN KHÔNG CHUYÊN NGÀNH TIÉNG ANH NAM THU NHÁT TẠI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC KỸ THUẬT Y TẾ HÃI DUONG VA MOT SỐ GIẢI PHÁP KHẢ THỊ) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS: FIELD: ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 6U 140111 SUPERVISOR: IDr. LRẢN THỊ THỦ HIỀN Hanoi, 2015 DECLARATION | certify that this thesis is entirely my own work.
| have provided fully documented references 10 the work of ofhers. The material in this thesis has not been submitied for assessment in any other formal course of study. Hanoi, August 20 2014 Signature Thanh Thuy LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CLT: Conmounivative Language Teaching EFL: Englishas a Foreign Language HMTU: Haiduong Medical Technical University M.: Master of Arts ABSTRACT ‘The study was carried out in the hope of investigating some faetors affecting the first year non-English major students” participation in speaking aptivitios al Haiduong Medical Technical University, The respondents were 12 English teachers and 165 first year non-English major students. In this paper, the researcher used two data collection instruments: questionnaires and interviews for both teachers and students, The findings showed that tactors atfecting students’ involvement originated from students, teachers, classroom and materials’ sides.
On the basis of the findings, the study lso provides some possible solutions for the teaching and learning process of Linglish conceming the effective factors to maximize the students’ involvement in speaking activities 2.4 Data collection procedures 23. CHAPTER3: DATA ANALY » FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS. Results fiom studentssIivey questionnaire andinlerview y questions. Stunts? assessment of their speaking ability 3.2, Students’ attitudes towards speaking skill.
Stunts” level of participationin speakir 3. Students’ assessment of speaking activities in the class 3. Students’ evaluation on leaming speaking English. Students’ assessment of the topics in the textbook 3.7, Students’ evaluation ơn the leachiers.
Factcrs affecting students” participation 3. Stunts” suggested solutions to increase their participation 3. Results fiom teachers’ questionnaire and interview, 3. Teachers’ attitude towards speaking skal.
‘Teachers’ assessment about students” speaking ability 3. Teachers’ method and activitiss. Eactcrs affecting students’ participation in speaking 2activities.4, Teachers” suggestions to increase students’ patticipaton in oral. Findings and discussion 3.
Students’ level of participation in class speuking avtivilies .'Lhe classroom, PART C: CONCLUSION. Rummnary of the study. Limitations of the study. Suggestions for further research REFERENCES.
s2 APPENDICES ABSTRACT ‘The study was carried out in the hope of investigating some faetors affecting the first year non-English major students” participation in speaking aptivitios al Haiduong Medical Technical University, The respondents were 12 English teachers and 165 first year non-English major students. In this paper, the researcher used two data collection instruments: questionnaires and interviews for both teachers and students, The findings showed that tactors atfecting students’ involvement originated from students, teachers, classroom and materials’ sides. On the basis of the findings, the study lso provides some possible solutions for the teaching and learning process of Linglish conceming the effective factors to maximize the students’ involvement in speaking activities ABSTRACT ‘The study was carried out in the hope of investigating some faetors affecting the first year non-English major students” participation in speaking aptivitios al Haiduong Medical Technical University, The respondents were 12 English teachers and 165 first year non-English major students. In this paper, the researcher used two data collection instruments: questionnaires and interviews for both teachers and students, The findings showed that tactors atfecting students’ involvement originated from students, teachers, classroom and materials’ sides.
On the basis of the findings, the study lso provides some possible solutions for the teaching and learning process of Linglish conceming the effective factors to maximize the students’ involvement in speaking activities LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CLT: Conmounivative Language Teaching EFL: Englishas a Foreign Language HMTU: Haiduong Medical Technical University M.: Master of Arts ABSTRACT ‘The study was carried out in the hope of investigating some faetors affecting the first year non-English major students” participation in speaking aptivitios al Haiduong Medical Technical University, The respondents were 12 English teachers and 165 first year non-English major students. In this paper, the researcher used two data collection instruments: questionnaires and interviews for both teachers and students, The findings showed that tactors atfecting students’ involvement originated from students, teachers, classroom and materials’ sides. On the basis of the findings, the study lso provides some possible solutions for the teaching and learning process of Linglish conceming the effective factors to maximize the students’ involvement in speaking activities ABSTRACT ‘The study was carried out in the hope of investigating some faetors affecting the first year non-English major students” participation in speaking aptivitios al Haiduong Medical Technical University, The respondents were 12 English teachers and 165 first year non-English major students. In this paper, the researcher used two data collection instruments: questionnaires and interviews for both teachers and students, The findings showed that tactors atfecting students’ involvement originated from students, teachers, classroom and materials’ sides.
On the basis of the findings, the study lso provides some possible solutions for the teaching and learning process of Linglish conceming the effective factors to maximize the students’ involvement in speaking activities ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Tn completion of this thesis, firs| of all T would like to expross my sincere and deup gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Tran Thi Thu Hiến for her experienced guidance, invaluable advice, and encouragement since the very beginning until the completion of the thesis. I am indebted to all the lectures of Vietnam National University, Hanoi Faculty of post-graduate studies for their valuable lectures which help me to orient the topic. 1 also wish to acknowledge the great support and precious help with the data collection and analysis of my colleagues and students at Llaiduong Medical ‘echnical University.
Without them, I could not have completed my thesis. Finally, T would like to thark my family, my doar friends from the master course whe pport and encouragement during the time the sludy was car ied oul PART A: INTRODUCTION 1, Rationale of the study The: days, English is very popular in Victmam, English lis bovome a erucial mss of communication and it is widely used in different fields of the society such as international commerce, seience & technology, education, medicine and sơ on, That is why, English teaching and lcaming have become a grcat necessity for Victnamesc people. specially, leaning speaking gains a grea stature as the eed of communication is paid much more attention. However, in some places in Vietnam, English teaching has been strongly influenced by buaditionsl methods.
Teachers as well as students pay foo umch altention lo the grammar items. Teachers mainly focus on explaining the grammatical rules and structures to students who are considered as passive recipients. As a result, those students are often reluctant in speaking activities Tn recent yours, English icachors lave changed their teaching methods and focused on teaching speaking to the students, One top concern of most teachers is students’ ineffective participation in spcaking lessons. The reasons for that arc various.
Tsui (1996), afler canying a research im Tong Keng, list five principle faclors affecting the reluctance of students’ participation in classroom speaking lessons: students” perceived low proficiency in English, studem’s fear of making mistakes and dezision, teachers’ intolerance of silence, uncven allocation of tunis, and. incomprehensible input (as cited in Numan, 1999:234) Having been teaching English at Haiduong Medical ‘Yechnical University (MIU) for seven years, the author of this paper has realized that most of the students do not often. enjoy speaking puriods, and they do nol a vely contribute the spzaking Jessons. They always keep quiet, passively take note, some listen to better students speaking but do nothing while some other students even discuss in Vietnamese.
That is the reason why the topic “Factors affecting the participation in speaking activities for the first year non-English major students at Haiduong Medical Technical University and some possible solutions. as an attempt to find out the reasons for the above problems, and propose some suggestions to increase students’ participation in speuking activi 2. Aims of the study ‘The study investigates current teaching and leaming of speaking skill for and of the first. year non-Rnglish major sludents st HMTU to identify Factors affecting the first year nton-Lnglish major students’ participation in speaking activities and from that gives some possible solutions to increase students’ participation m speaking activities.
‘TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ABSTRACT. ‘TABLE OF CONTENTS. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. LIST OF TABLES AND CLLARTS Nii PART A: INTRODUCTION: Rationale of the suởy.
web wb woe Aims of the siudy awe BwWWwl Research questions. Scope of the study.ssenenennne 5, Methods of the study Signiflcance of the stuủy. Structure of the study a PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.8pcnking In sccond languagc lcaming and tcaching.] Definitions of speaking 1. Characteristics of speaking.
"The roles of speaking in language teaching and learning. Approaches to the teaching of speaking «. CLT and teaching speaking 1. Characteristics of CLI.
Conditions of Applying CLT. Student’s participation ini oral activities 8 13. Concept of students’ participation 8 1. Factors affecting students’ participation in speaking activities 8 1.
LA, Summary CHAPTER2: METHODOLOGY. Context of the study 2. Data collection instruments ABSTRACT ‘The study was carried out in the hope of investigating some faetors affecting the first year non-English major students” participation in speaking aptivitios al Haiduong Medical Technical University, The respondents were 12 English teachers and 165 first year non-English major students. In this paper, the researcher used two data collection instruments: questionnaires and interviews for both teachers and students, The findings showed that tactors atfecting students’ involvement originated from students, teachers, classroom and materials’ sides.
On the basis of the findings, the study lso provides some possible solutions for the teaching and learning process of Linglish conceming the effective factors to maximize the students’ involvement in speaking activities 2.4 Data collection procedures 23. CHAPTER3: DATA ANALY » FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS. Results fiom studentssIivey questionnaire andinlerview y questions. Stunts? assessment of their speaking ability 3.2, Students’ attitudes towards speaking skill.
Stunts” level of participationin speakir 3. Students’ assessment of speaking activities in the class 3. Students’ evaluation on leaming speaking English. Students’ assessment of the topics in the textbook 3.7, Students’ evaluation ơn the leachiers.
Factcrs affecting students” participation 3. Stunts” suggested solutions to increase their participation 3. Results fiom teachers’ questionnaire and interview, 3. Teachers’ attitude towards speaking skal.
‘Teachers’ assessment about students” speaking ability 3. Teachers’ method and activitiss. Eactcrs affecting students’ participation in speaking 2activities.4, Teachers” suggestions to increase students’ patticipaton in oral. Findings and discussion 3.
Students’ level of participation in class speuking avtivilies .'Lhe classroom, PART C: CONCLUSION. Rummnary of the study. Limitations of the study. Suggestions for further research REFERENCES.
s2 APPENDICES LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CLT: Conmounivative Language Teaching EFL: Englishas a Foreign Language HMTU: Haiduong Medical Technical University M.: Master of Arts ‘TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ABSTRACT. ‘TABLE OF CONTENTS. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. LIST OF TABLES AND CLLARTS Nii PART A: INTRODUCTION: Rationale of the suởy.
web wb woe Aims of the siudy awe BwWWwl Research questions. Scope of the study.ssenenennne 5, Methods of the study Signiflcance of the stuủy.
