(SKKN 2022) HELPING THE GRADE 12 STUDENTS AT HAM RONG HIGH SCHOOL IMPROVE THEIR SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES AND SOCIETY THOUGH POST READING ACTIVITIES

THANH HOA EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT HAM RONG HIGH SCHOOL - - INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE HELPING THE GRADE 12 STUDENTS AT HAM RONG HIGH SCHOOL IMPROVE THEIR SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO THEMSELVES, THEIRFAMILIES AND SOCIETY THROUGHPOST-READING ACTIVITIES Author: Luu Thi Thanh Tu Position: Teacher Research field: English THANH HOA 2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION PART II: CONTENT .2 I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND .2 Sense of responsibility .2 1.1 Definition of responsibility and sense of responsibility 1.2 List of responsibilities every student should fulfill 2 Post-reading activities .2 2.1 Definition of post-reading activities 2.2 Benefits of using post-reading activities to improve the students' sense of responsibility .3 2.3 Some principles for choosing post-reading activities to raise students' responsibility II SITUATION ANALYSIS Situation of students' sense of responsibilities at my school Situation of teaching the students sense of responsibility at my school Situation of learning English and teaching post-reading in English lessons at my school The English Language syllabus III SURVEY Survey and the results .6 Findings from the survey IV FINDING SOLUTIONS Activities to improve students' sense of responsibility to themselves 1.1 Sample application - Unit 4: School education system 1.2 Sample application - Unit 5: Higher education .9 1.3 Sample application - Unit 6: Future jobs .10 Activities to improve students' sense of responsibility to their families 11 2.1 Sample application 1-Unit 1: Home life 11 2.2 Sample application 2- Unit 2: Cultural diversity (Version 1) 11 2.3 Sample application - Unit 3: Ways of socializing 13 Activities to improve students' sense of responsibility to society 14 3.1 Sample application - Unit 2: Cultural diversity (Version 2) 14 3.2 Sample application - Unit 14: International organizations 16 3.3 Sample application - Unit 15: Women in society 18 V RESULTS AND COMMENTS 19 Results 19 Comments 20 PART III: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS .1 APPENDICES PART I: INTRODUCTION So far, we have been caring much about what families, schools and society should for children However, it is also important for students to be aware of what they have to for themselves, their families and society In other words, students must be responsible to themselves, their families and society But in fact, many students not only neglect studying but also often avoid and complain about their tasks, miss deadlines, break the disciplines, and even blame others for the mistakes and failure They are more and more materialistic, selfish, indifferent and emotionless Therefore, it is undeniable that they are becoming more and more irresponsible As a high school teacher, I have learned that one of the six pillars of character education is to be responsible However, educating sense of responsibility at my school has not been really effective One of the most basically causes may be that responsibilities are usually taught theoretically with little practical application In addition, it is not focused on in every lesson they learn in classes Whereas, it is obviously possible to educate students' sense of responsibility through different subjects such as: Civic Education, Literature, Biology, English, … A question is raised is how I can teach my students sense of responsibility while our teaching methods mainly focus on language skills In addition, my students are at the grade 12 when the GCSSE exam is coming soon and the teachers try to teach the knowledge that help students to get good marks in their tests and exams It means I have to improve my students' sense of responsibility through teaching knowledge and language skills As a matter of fact, the post-reading stage of a reading lesson is often confused with the closing of a lesson So, teachers usually use classic post-reading activities to make sure that the students have already comprehended the text However, I learn that at the postreading stage students are not studying about the language of the text and they are not comprehending the text, either At this stage students are supposed to apply what they possess Post-reading activities are expected to encourage students to reflect upon what they have read, which takes the students to their real life situation So, post-reading stage is potential to apply the activities which help improve students' sense of responsibility to themselves, their families and society By this way I can combine teaching language skills with improving my students' sense of responsibility without time-consuming For the reasons above, from the beginning of the school year 2020-2021, I have carried a study which has changed the ways we used to teach post-reading with the topic "Helping the grade 12 students at Ham Rong High School improve their sense of responsibility to themselves, their families and society through post-reading activities" Hoping that with these experiences teaching post-reading at my school will become more flexible and our students will be more responsible to themselves, their families and society PART II: CONTENT I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Sense of responsibility 1.1 Definition of responsibility and sense of responsibility Responsibility is defined as the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone; the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something; the opportunity or ability to act independently and take decisions without authorization; a thing which one is required to as part of a job, role, or legal obligation Responsibility is the burden someone is obligated to fulfill in order to meet a particular need Someone’s level of meeting his responsibilities shows how trustworthy he is, particularly if he consistently meets his responsibilities A sense of responsibility is an awareness of one’s obligations; it’s like doing what we suppose to It can be defined as a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self" 1.2 List of responsibilities every student should fulfill Students are expected to fulfill some key responsibilities before they leave school and start a new life They are: - Responsibilities to themselves - Responsibilities to their families - Responsibilities to their school - Responsibilities to their community and society Post-reading activities 2.1 Definition of post-reading activities Post-reading activities are simply activities done after while-reading activities are completed At this stage the students are in a temporary change of state or condition, that is, they now know something they did not know before The task of the post-reading stage is to integrate or synthesize the read material into one's knowledge base of the topic Students need to make the material their own This can be achieved through a variety of means employing writing, class discussion, visual representations, and physical demonstration When the while-reading stage is completed, the students are expected to have obtained new information from the text This should bring about a change of some kind such as they would know more, or think or feel differently from before According to Nuttall (1996: 164) when intensive work in a during-/while-reading stage is completed, general comprehension must be intended to At this stage, the students should be able to evaluate the text as a whole to respond to it from a more or less personal point of view They may be asked to agree or disagree with the author or the characters in the text; relate the content to their own experience; connect the content with other work in the same field; discuss characters, incidents, ideas, feelings; or predict what can happen afterwards 2.2 Benefits of using post-reading activities to improve the students' sense of responsibility - Teachers can educate students' character through teaching language skills - Students recycle what they have obtained from the text - Students go beyond the text and enter the real world, equipped with the newly-obtained information - Updating the problems that are closed to the students' real life and working together to find out the solutions as their responsibility - Students can well prepare for an independent life in the future - Students learn to be responsible for their actions, choices and decisions to themselves, their families and society - From post-reading activities, the students are developping themselves to achieve automaticity, meaningful learning, autonomy, willingness to communicate, interlanguage, and communicative competence 2.3 Some principles for choosing post-reading activities to raise students' responsibility - The activities must connect the topics of the reading texts with the responsibilities that students should fulfill - The activities should keep all of the students involved and interested - The activities should help the students develop their communicative skills - The activities should make students think of what they have to in the real life - Teaching the sense of responsibility may make students boring so the activities should be challenging and interesting enough to attract their attention and stimulate them to take part in - To be suitable with the time limit of post-reading stage, the length of each activity is about 10 minutes II SITUATION ANALYSIS Situation of students' sense of responsibilities at my school Ham Rong High School is a school located in the center of Thanh Hoa city In recent years, the school's 10th grade entrance score has always been ranked in the top The general level of students is relatively even Many students have the opportunity to learn English very early However, there is still a few of students in suburban areas who still have difficulties in learning English As a result, the level and ability of students to use English in the school are not equal Therefore, there are many difficulties in the teaching and learning Many of the students at my school live far from the district center and come from lowincome families In spite of the difficulties, the students are given a chance to go to school In recent years, due to the objective reasons, the number of students applying for my school has been increasing, which makes the enrolment seem to be too difficult for the students It may be a cause of the fact that the students have to make a lot of attempts to learn, that is why many of them are becoming more and more hard-working However, there are still some students who are quite passive in learning, they have not yet adapted to the new learning environment In addition, they feel that being admitted to Ham Rong school is a privilege and they need to enjoy those privileges As a matter of fact, the students are very irresponsible to themselves Their sense of learning is too low, which causes their low learning results In the class, they often talk or private things, not pay attention to the teachers' lectures Many of them not homework and prepare for new lessons before class The situation of unpunctuality, skipping class and cheating in tests or exams is quite frequent Especially for the grade 12 students, although they are going to take the GCSE exam, they seem not to worry about their studying They probably think that their teachers will not let them get bad marks and they will be able to cheat in the exams They seem to be waiting for their luck, so they hardly make effort to study In spite of their low living conditions, the parents try to buy electric bikes for their children to go to school instead of going by bike Furthermore, the students also own expensive and modern mobile devices, which makes them neglect studying Some of them use smart phones sneakily in the classes Many parents complain that their children are attracted to the smart phones all day; they neither housework nor study at home They spend their time on mobile devices instead of others activities such as reading or playing sports which help improve their health, knowledge and life skills They care more about the status and problems in social network than about what they are facing, their parents or other family members As a result, they are impacted negatively from some information in social network It can be said that they lack responsibility to both themselves and their families In addition, they also lack the conformity with the law In spite of the obligation, most of them go to school by electric bike without wearing helmets It is not until they arrive at the school gate that they wear helmets in order to avoid the teachers' punishment Some of the students even ride motorbike to school although their age is not old enough They throw waste in public, even damage the common property Besides, many of them refuse to take part in social activities They seem too indifferent and emotionless In short, the young tend to be more and more irresponsible to not only themselves, their families but society as well It is one of the causes that make the students live without objectives or even commit a crime There seems to be no way to solve this problem except improving the students' sense of responsibility Situation of teaching the students sense of responsibility at my school It is said that family is the foundation of character education It means that children's character is mainly formed by family education Besides, school also plays an important role in educating students' character Normally, it is considered that character education is the responsibility of form teachers and the teachers who teach Civic Education Therefore, at my school, it is likely only form teachers and Civic Education teachers take responsibility for teaching students’ responsibility The Young Onion sometimes organizes outdoor activities which help raise the students' responsibility Other teachers mainly teach knowledge in textbook and some necessary skills that their subjects require the sense of responsibility is hardly focused Situation of learning English and teaching post-reading in English lessons at my school As mentioned above, the students’ living conditions have a big effect on the way students study Many of them learn English with the only aim to pass the national GCSE exam, so they mostly focus on studying pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar They even feel it hard to remember all the required knowledge for different exams This way of thinking among students leads the teachers of English at my school to nearly the same way of teaching the language We always try to fulfill the knowledge in textbooks to our students Especially, the teachers who teach the 12 th grade students often try to provide as many practice exercises related to the GCSE exam as possible With the help of modern technology, many lectures designed by PowerPoint have been given to students The teachers also use interesting activities such as games, quiz, role-play…to stimulate students They have been trying to apply new teaching methods to help students improve their language skills consist of reading, listening, speaking and writing The quality of the lectures has been considerably raised and it plays an important role in the results of the students in the exams In reading lessons, the teachers at my school often adapt the activities given in textbooks to make it easy for our students, make the lessons more interesting and attract their attention to the lessons as well However, because of our students' poor ability and long or difficult reading texts, the teachers and students usually spend almost the time on whilereading activities Sometime, we hardly have time for post-reading stage or else we use the post-reading activities similar to those in while-reading stage to make sure that the students understand the reading text more The post-reading activities that are used popularly are related to summarizing the reading text such as filling the missing words in the summary of the text, using the cues to summarize the text… or translating the text into Vietnamese This helps the students comprehend the reading texts totally However, these methods of teaching and learning can hardly help improve students' character in general and sense of responsibility in particular The English Language syllabus The textbook Tieng Anh 12 as well as Tieng Anh 10 and Tieng Anh 11 is traditional textbook structured with a priority towards theme-based or topic-based learning models The textbook has desirable aim of providing students with a foundational knowledge of numerous fields, a favorable attitude towards the English Language, and the four skills generally recognized as building proficiency in language study: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing In order to achieve these objectives, the content of the book is designed to utilize themes with which all students will be familiar Included are topics related to the student’s social lives, to sports, to work, and to leisure activities universal experiences For each topic, related vocabulary and word studies are presented communicatively The textbook contains sixteen units, with each unit presenting five lessons with four different skills and a language focus Reading is the first unit in each lesson, guiding students to key words and phrases of the related topicwhich then become “building blocks” that enable them to learn additional skills The book Tieng Anh 12 contains many topics which are close to the students They are about life, studying, job, family, nature and society such as home life, future jobs, life in the future…but there is no separate part for teaching students the sense of responsibility to themselves, their family and society Therefore, although teaching sense of responsibility is necessary, it is not compulsory III SURVEY Survey and the results At the beginning of the school year 2020-2021, I have carried out the survey containing multiple choice questions for 156 students from three classes 12A5, 12A7, 12A8 of my school The survey was done twice One was at the first semester of the twelfth form (before teaching post reading with activities improving students' sense of responsibilities) and the other was at the end of the second semester (after using these activities) The table below shows the result of the survey for first time Before using the Questions Answers activities A Normal 42% Do you think how important sense of B Important 35% responsibility is? C Very important 23% A Rarely 27% How often you think about your B Sometimes 55% responsibilities in your daily activities? C Usually 18% A Unnecessary 9% Do you find it necessary to be taught B Necessary 51% sense of responsibility in the class? C Very necessary 40% Do you learn much about sense of A Little 30% B Normal 62% responsibility through your English C Much 8% lessons? How much is your sense of A Little 41% B Normal 45% responsibility to yourselves, your family, C Much 4% school and society? Findings from the survey The survey shows that before using the adapted activities, most of students not care much about responsibility Even though they know responsibility is important, they often act without thinking about it Most of them consider that they should be taught responsibility in the class However, every English lesson they learn often mainly focuses on knowledge and language skills As a result, they are little aware of their responsibility to themselves, their family, school and community IV FINDING SOLUTIONS From the analysis above, it can be said that our students' irresponsibility is very worrying However, teaching in general and teaching English in particular at my school is mainly focused on knowledge and language skills It is high time for us to educate our students' character as well as sense of responsibility through English lessons Post-reading stage is the best choice for the solution because it is a good chance for the students to connect English lessons with their real life Furthermore, based on the topics of the reading texts we can create many different activities to teach different responsibilities In addition, we also can apply many different activities for each reading lesson depending on what responsibility we want to teach our students In short, post-reading stage is potential to apply the activities which help improve our students' sense of responsibility The topics of the reading texts in Tieng Anh 12 textbook are very familiar to the students' life, so I have used post-reading stage to carry out the following activities These are some suggested activities which I have applied to improve my students' sense of responsibility to themselves, their families and society quite effectively Activities to improve students' sense of responsibility to themselves 1.1 Sample application - Unit 4: School education system • Aim: Help students realize the importance of self-study and cultivate their self-study ability • Suggested activity: Making a plan: Make a self-study plan to prepare for your GCSE effectively • Time limit: 10 minutes • Preparation: - Teacher: Prepare a sample self-study plan - Students: Prepare posters and pens for group work; find out self-study methods • Procedure: - Divide the class into groups of 6-8 students - Ask them to discuss how to make a plan - Give students some suggestions: To make the plan, you should determine: WHY WHAT SELFSTUDY PLAN HOW WHO WHE N WHERE  Why to study? (Goals)  What to study? (What subjects, lessons…)  When to study? (Time available, schedule…)  Where to study? (Studying environment, courses…)  Who may help or study together?  How to study (Studying methods) Show students the sample plan as a model Sample plan: SELF-STUDY PLAN  Goals: - Pass the GCSE exam with 30 points - Pass the entrance exam with 25 points (Math: 8, Literature: 8, English 9)  Core subjects: Math, Literature, English  Optional subjects: History, Geography, Civic Education  Time: in the afternoon, at night, at weekend  Studying environment: at home, online  People to ask for help: teachers, classmates  Studying methods: - Pay attention to the lectures - Determine the weaknesses - Highlight the important pieces of information - Set a schedule to study at home - Share learn experience with friends, classmates - Ask the teachers about what we have not understood yet - Study the references - Download necessary documents and sample tests - Attend some online courses - Learn from different media - Practice doing tests - Keep away modern devices when want to concentrate on studying - After minutes, call the representatives of the groups to report their group's production Ask other groups to give comments Teacher gives feedback and shows the suggested answers • Suggested answers: Picture comments: The common thing between the two pictures is that although every family member is sitting next to one another, each member is paying attention to their own smart phones There is no connection, no communication among them The influences of mobile devices on family communication: - Impact on the quality of this time for family members -Neglect the interaction with those who are physically nearby - Negatively affects face-to-face interactions - Decreasing family cohesion and time together with their children - Kids will learn from the smart phone negative behavior How to keep family life away the impact of mobile devices: - Establish a rule in your house that there will be no using phones (or emailing or posting to social media, etc.) after a certain time at night - Keep dinnertime free of cell phones, and use it as an opportunity to reconnect with each other and talk about your day - Use an app to monitor how much the kids use their phones, and use it to track your own use - Keep time with your spouse-like date night or catching up on the day before bed-free of cell phones Activities to improve students' sense of responsibility to society 3.1 Sample application - Unit 2: Cultural diversity (Version 2) • Aim: Raise students' right awareness of drinking culture in Viet Nam • Suggested activity: Discussion: Traditionally, alcohol is very popular in every party and celebration in Vietnam Therefore, many accidents have been happening as a result of abusing alcohol Discuss the consequences of abusing drinking culture in Vietnam And, if you were allowed to change the situation of drinking in Vietnam, what would you do? • Time limit: 10 minutes • Preparation: - Students: Prepare posters and pens for group work; think about consequences of drinking alcohol and measures to limit drinking - Teacher: Prepare some figures and chart about drinking culture in Vietnam and other countries in the world, a poster of suggested answers: 14 • Procedure: - Show the table and the chart for the students to watch - Ask them to give comments to the data about drinking culture in Vietnam, in comparison with other countries - Divide the class into groups of six to eight students - Ask them to work out the consequences and solutions to the problems - After minutes, call the representatives of the groups to report their groups' production - Ask other groups to give comments - Teacher gives feedback and shows the suggested answers • Suggested answers: Comments: The table and the chart show that while a lot of countries all over the world minimum the drinking age, Vietnam is one of few countries that not Besides, the consumption of beer in Vietnam is the highest while GDP per capita is ranked fourth of Southeast Asian countries Consequences of drinking: 15 To the drinkers: - Alcohol poisoning - High blood pressure, stroke, and other heart-related diseases - Liver disease - Nerve damage - Sexual problems - Permanent damage to the brain To their family and society: - Unintentional injuries such as car crash, falls, burns, drowning - Intentional injuries such as firearm injuries, sexual assault, domestic violence - Increased on-the-job injuries and loss of productivity - Increased family problems, broken relationships If I were allowed to change, I would something to limit drinking culture abuse, such as: - Limit the drinking ages - Prohibit driving after drinking - Punish the people who are drunk and people who force others to drink - Ask people who drink on working day to get a fine - Levy a high tax on beer industry 3.2 Sample application - Unit 14: International organizations • Aim: Promote good citizenship and cultivate the students' compassion • Suggested activity: Discussion: Of the following activities, which are The Red Cross' activities and which are the charity work you can participate in • Time limit: 10 minutes • Preparation: - Students: Prepare posters and pens for group work; think about the charity work they can take part in - Teacher: Prepare a list of charity work, a work, and a poster of suggested answers Charity work - Helping disadvantages or handicapped children - Volunteering at a hospital, in the home of sick or old people - Collecting gifts for children’s hospitals - Raising money for a charity - Taking care of war invalids and the families of martyrs - Helping reduce the suffering of wounded soldiers, civilians, and prisoners of war in the war time - Collecting old clothes for children and people in remote and mountainous areas - Collecting trash or clean up a park to promote environmental awareness - Giving medical aid and other help to victims of major disasters such as floods, earthquakes, epidemics, and famines 16 - Hosting an event to raise funds to help people and communities affected by a disaster - Collecting children’s books and other reading materials for shelters, libraries and schools, then ask if they need volunteer readers - Participating in a cleanup day at a local beach, trail, waterway or park - Helping people in mountainous areas The work sheet The Red Cross's activities ………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………… Activities you can participate in ………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………… ………………………………………… • - Procedure: Show students the list of charity work Divide the class into groups of six Students discuss to put the activities into the right column After minutes, call some students to report the Red Cross's activities and the charity work they can participate in - Ask other groups to give comments - Teacher gives feedback and shows the suggested answers •Suggested answers: The Red Cross's activities - Helping disadvantages or handicapped children - Volunteer at a hospital, in the home of sick or old people - Collect gifts for children’s hospitals - Raise money for a charity - Taking care of war invalids and the families of martyrs - Help reduce the suffering of wounded soldiers, civilians, and prisoners of war in the war time - Give medical aid and other help to victims of major disasters such as floods, earthquakes, epidemics, and famines - Improve the lives of vulnerable people Activities you can participate in - Helping disadvantages or handicapped children - Taking part in directing the traffic - Volunteer at a hospital, in the home of sick or old people - Collect gifts for children’s hospitals - Raise money for a charity - Taking care of war invalids and the families of martyrs - Collect old clothes for children and people in remote and mountainous areas - Collect trash or clean up a park to promote environmental awareness - Collect children’s books and other reading materials for shelters, libraries and schools, then ask if they need volunteer readers 17 who are victims of natural disasters, poverty and health emergencies - Helping people in mountainous areas - Participate in a cleanup day at a local beach, trail, waterway or park - Helping people in mountainous areas 3.3 Sample application - Unit 15: Women in society • Aim: Raise students' responsibilities for preventing family violence • Suggested activity: Discussion: How to prevent family violence • Time limit: 10 minutes • Preparations: - Student: Prepare posters and pens for group work; find out the causes and solutions to family violence - Teacher: Prepare a picture of family violence, some questions for discussing and a poster of the suggested answers The questions: Question 1: Do you think that women are equal to men in society now? Question 2: What matter you think is happening in the picture? Question 3: What you think are causes of family violence? Question 4: What will you if you know someone is a victim of family violence? Question 5: How can we help stop family violence? • Procedure: - Show the picture for the students to guess the problem - Ask students some questions to lead in: Teacher: Do you think that women are equal to men in society now? Student: Yes, I think they have gained equal rights to men Teacher: What matter you think is happening in the picture? Student: In my opinion it's family violence Teacher: Is this one of the most serious problems that women are suffering? What may be causes of family violence and how to prevent family violence? Let's discuss to find out causes and solutions - Give students the three questions to discuss as suggestion to solve the problems:  What you think are causes of family violence? 18  What will you if you know someone is a victim of family violence?  How can we help stop family violence? - Divide the class into groups of six to discuss - After minutes, call some pairs to present their production - Ask other groups to give comments - Teacher gives feedback • Suggested answers: The causes of family violence are: - low academic achievement - cultural beliefs/traditional viewpoints - the men's low self-esteem - desire for power or control - mental illness - substance abuse If I know someone is a victim of family violence, I will: - ask them to tell me about what is happening to them - listen to them and let them know I believe them and what is being done to them is a crime - help them find the support they need How can we help stop family violence? - Learn more about family violence to recognize it and help people who may be victims - Report abuse when we see it - Think about our own actions and how to talk with others about violent actions - Volunteer with or join an organization that is dedicated to stopping family violence Note: All of the students’ products are presented in the Appendices V RESULTS AND COMMENTS Results I applied these post-reading activities to teach my grade 12 students in the school year 2020-2021 In spite of some difficulties, we achieved considerable success The effect of the activities helped our students realize what they should for themselves, their school and society This can be seen as the motivation for students to try to learn more My students gradually gave up some negative habits; they behaved better and better; they paid attention to the lessons more and their sense of learning was improved They also volunteered to take part in social activities organized by school and the community instead of being required as before We have carried out the survey again with the same questions for the same students from three classes last time The survey was done the second time at the end of the second semester (after using these activities) to check how effective the activities have brought about The table below shows the results of the survey before and after using the activities with the aim of improving the students' sense of responsibility 19 Questions Answers Do you think how important sense of responsibility is? How often you think about your responsibilities in your daily activities? Do you find it necessary to be taught sense of responsibility in the class? Do you learn much about sense of responsibility through your English lessons? How much is your sense of responsibility to yourselves, your family and society? A Normal B Important C Very important A Rarely B Sometimes C Usually A Unnecessary B Necessary C Very necessary A Little B Normal C Much A Little B Normal C Much Before using the activities 42% 35% 23% 27% 55% 18% 9% 51% 40% 30% 62% 8% 41% 45% 4% After using the activities 25% 45% 30% 3% 25% 72% 0% 52% 48% 10% 42% 38% 13% 35% 52% Comments The survey shows that in comparison with before using the interventional activities, most of the students have changed their awareness of their sense of responsibility After using the activities, we have found that the students not only realized the importance of sense of responsibility but they also improved their sense of their responsibility They found it necessary to be taught sense of responsibility They learned much about sense of responsibility through English lessons as well, so they were aware of what they had to do, they acted more responsibly In fact, their sense of responsibility to themselves, their families and society has risen effectively 20 PART III: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS I CONCLUSIONS The study was started at the beginning of the previous school year, when I was assigned to teach four grade 12 classes At first, I was very worried about my students' sense of learning and their behaviors This is the reason why I tried to determine the causes and find out solutions My solutions met a number of difficulties because of our students' poor ability of English They were not confident to speak English and not enough vocabulary to express their ideas as well However, with the aim of teaching sense of responsibility mainly, the accuracy of using language was not focused on The students might not be able to express all what they wanted to say but at least they had been aware of what they should Besides, the students were encouraged to speak out their thoughts and opinion to suggest the solutions to the given problems with the help of the teacher and their group members By using information technology, I was able to find out much useful information to carry out the study Moreover, the study has been completed with the help of myschool’s Board of Directors, my colleagues and my students With the methods have been suggested in this study, the post-reading activities designed in the text book Tieng Anh 12 have been adapted completely The post-reading stage is not simple for students to comprehend or summarize the reading text any more Instead, it gives students the chance to apply what they possess into their real life Another success is that our students not only have chances to get a living lesson and improve their sense of responsibility they also improve their reading, speaking, teamwork skills and raise their creativity It can be said that these activities are not completely effective However, it is undeniable that they are quite practical They have significantly contributed to improving our students' sense of responsibility recently Our students have been aware of what they have to for themselves, their families and society and practise in their real life They have gradually improved their behaviors and sense of learning II RECOMMENDATIONS In fact, these are only some suggested activities; other teachers can design different post-reading activities as long as they can make students think about what they have to for themselves, their families and society We can also apply similar activities to improve students' responsibilities through post-listening stage Even for Tieng Anh 10 and 11 we can use post-reading stage with this aim to teach the grade 10 and 11 I personally think that teaching responsibility should be encouraged to apply into other subjects The measures have been given out are just from my own experiences during the process of teaching Consequently, it must contain a number of weaknesses I would like to get the comments and good idea from readers and other teachers so that the topic will become more interesting and perfect 21 APPROVAL BY THE HEADMASTER OF THE SCHOOL Thanh Hoa, April 27th, 2022 I hereby declare that this study is conducted by myself, if something goes wrong, I would be responsible before the law Luu Thi Thanh Tu 22 REFERENCE Adrian, D Teach English Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in association with the British Council (1998) Graham Crookes, A Practicum in TESOL: Development through Teaching Practice Cambridge University Press (2003) Harmer, J How to teach English London: Longman Press (1991) Hoang Van Van, Tieng Anh 12 textbook (2008) http://www.academia.edu http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/reading/goalsread.htm https://www.lexico.com/definition/responsibility https://www.thefreedictionary.com/sense+of+responsibility www.google.com.vn 10 www.teachhub.com 23 DANH MỤC CÁC ĐỀ TÀI SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM ĐÃ ĐƯỢC HỘI ĐỒNG ĐÁNH GIÁ XẾP LOẠI CẤP SỞ GD&ĐT VÀ CÁC CẤP CAO HƠN XẾP LOẠI TỪ C TRỞ LÊN Họ tên tác giả : Luu Thị Thanh Tú Chức vụ đơn vị công tác : Trường THPT Hàm Rồng- TP Thanh Hóa TT Tên đề tài SKKN Techniques Cấp đánh giá xếp loại ( Phòng, Sở, Tỉnh) Cấp Sở for Kết đánh giá xếp loại ( A, B, C) C Năm học đánh giá xếp loại B 2019-2020 2018-2019 organizing communicative activities in pair work and group work for students of Grade 10 at Ham Rong High School Some effective methods of correcting errors in writing English for 10th grade students at Ham Rong High School Cấp Sở APPENDICES THE STUDENTS’ PRODUCTS AFTER EACH ACTIVITIES ... students to be aware of what they have to for themselves, their families and society In other words, students must be responsible to themselves, their families and society But in fact, many students. .. beginning of the school year 2020-2021, I have carried a study which has changed the ways we used to teach post- reading with the topic "Helping the grade 12 students at Ham Rong High School improve their. .. realized the importance of sense of responsibility but they also improved their sense of their responsibility They found it necessary to be taught sense of responsibility They learned much about sense