Khóa luận How to make pupils at SIU interested in learning English speaking

…………………………………… GRADUATION THESIS Major English Language Topic How to make pupils at SIU interested in learning English speaking Instructor Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student Dinh Thai Son ID: 97011501057 DECLARATION I hereby declare that the work entitled "THE THESIS PROPOSAL" submitted for the school governor of The Saigon International University (SIU) is my original work and I also confirm that, the report is only prepared for my academic requirement not for any other purpose Student's name : Đinh Thái Sơn Course : SIUBFT0815 Student ID : 97011501057 Date : September 6th, 2017 Place : Hochiminh city Signature of the Student: ABSTRACT The experience of English teaching, especially speaking class, comes from the actual classroom and that is not a good news for a new teacher, who does not have it but urgently needs to acquire the basic knowledge This writing provides the reasons why the level of interesting acts as a crucial point in the succeeding of a class Furthermore, some methods of teaching speaking are going to be viewed and discussed to strengthen the point of view that intrinsic motivation should be applied in the class Readers will find graphs and figures demonstrating the subject and result in finding them useful for further studies at the Saigon International University ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to show deep gratitude to all those who gave me a chance to complete this research and this Thesis A special thanks I would like to give to my instructor, Mr Nguyen Thanh Tuan, for helping me with the information needed for my Thesis Over the period of 10 weeks, he helped us to schedule the writing from step to step so that the writing could be handed in time Professor also guided us the correct form of writing and corrected our paper works Furthermore, I would like to thank the class 15DTA, who act as a helpful source of data on reflecting the state of our speaking class in the pass The data was rapidly filled and the reply was so frank Without their participation, this writing was so much in trouble Last but not least, I would like to thank the Saigon International University The academic facility provides me a chance to be able to present the knowledge that I had learned here for the last four years and applied them to real life situation Instructor’s Comment Instructor: …………………………… Signed: ………………………………… TABLE OF CONTENT Content Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Rationale Purposes of the Study Significant of the Study Research Questions Limitation Scope of the Study Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW Intrinsic motivation Distinguish Types of Motivations Advantages of Intrinsic Motivation Some Elements of English Speaking .8 Communicative Language Teaching Task-based activities and Topic-based activities Some Classroom Speaking Activities .9 7.1 Script Acting 7.2 Discussion 10 7.3 Prepared Talks 11 7.4 Questionnaires 11 7.5 Simulation and role-play 12 Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY 13 Research design 13 Research Procedures 13 Participants .15 Sample Selection .15 Material Technique 15 Data Collection 16 Reliability and Validity 16 Chapter 4: ANALYSIS AND DICUSSION 18 Speaking class should be improve to be more enthusiastic for students .18 Methods of teaching English speaking fit into the class to make it more enthusiastic 22 2.1 Dramatic methods .22 2.2 Topic-based methods 25 Which methods are considered to be the most suitable for the students at Saigon International University? .27 Chapter 5: CONCLUSION 33 REFERENCE 35 APPENDIX .37 LIST OF CHARTS Chart 1: The chart describing the level of interest the speaking class could get based on students’ grading 20 Chart 2: The chart describing the amount of activities were use 21 Chart 3: The chart describing the most common method used during class 22 Chart 4: Chart describing which methods students prefer 29 Chart 5: Chart describing which task-based activities students prefer 30 Chart 6: Chart describing which topic-based activities students prefer 32 Student: Dinh Thai Son Student ID:97011501057 CONTENT Chapter 1: Introduction The research began when the class of speaking conducted at SIU had finished since the majority felt the same that the class either quite reluctant or not being able to distribute the enthusiastic activities In the search for methods to better the class learning environment, the hope is that speaking class will be more communicative for students to enjoy Rationale English has always been unofficially considered to be the most used language of the modern time for it has proved it significant in global business and communication in the last decade Yet, learning a second language is not as easy as it seems especially when it comes to speaking English During speaking session, we found that some of the students lack the motivation to stand up in front the class and deliver a speech in English This typical situation is often assigned to being shy, reserved and insecure of making mistake, some cases event engage with the negative attitude toward speaking in front of public Such matter has raised the attention of us as future teachers to find an appropriate solution Purposes of the Study As stated before, we are aiming at creating an efficient English speaking period for students of Saigon International University By attending the classes, we noticed that getting students to speak English in class is quite tricky especially to those who were reluctant to speak or express themselves in front of other people Since then, we have Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student: Dinh Thai Son Student ID:97011501057 been scanning through methods of teaching Speaking English and obtaining more new modern practices to help students deal with speaking problems Significance of the Study As the first to benefit from this research, we would say that through the process of making this writing possible, we have learned a quite amount of ways to conduct an effective speaking class With a certain belief that the students at Saigon International University would be the next target to gain advantage since this research was aimed to better the class of speaking based on the interest of each individuals Lastly, teachers’ role is quite important in the learning and progressing of pupils so we hope that this small research could act as a support to those seeking of such helps and shall gain benefit from it Research Questions When the target has been set, three main questions are going to be discussed in the later section of this research Should we consider to improve the Speaking class so that it could be more enthusiastic? What activities of English speaking teaching are going to fit into the class to make it more enthusiastic? Which methods are considered to be the most suitable for the students at Saigon International University? Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA 35 Student: Dinh Thai Son Student ID:97011501057 Chapter 5: CONCLUSION This research is an opportunity for us to apply what we had learned in the past into the reality classroom Going through the approaches makes the whole research expose the situation better for we can consider thoroughly what could be useful, which is applicable Through ten weeks of making this writing possible, the result comes out firstly through the process of survey our 15DTA classmate about their speaking course, secondly through materials we had collected earlier, lastly through the analysis we made The survey makes three important findings Discovery number one is that the speaking class attended by class of 15DTA was considered to be not interesting but only efficient enough to participate The amount of activities was valued as average, as a result the level of interesting also rated as average The second finding is that students of the class tented to prefer having task-based activities instead of having topic-based activities Third findings states that activities in groups should be focused Upon the material, two methods for making the speaking class more enthusiastic consider new activities for teaching Drama method promises the class with activities that helps students to progress in many aspects such as pronunciations, confident, etc Topicbased method, on the other hand, provides more traditional approaches to solve the missing interest problems This method, however, needs to be preplanned carefully since the class already been through a lot of topic-based section in the past Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA 36 Student: Dinh Thai Son Student ID:97011501057 Last but not least, the analysis provides reasons why an activity should be chose instead of sticking with the textbook exercise or using only topics This part also provides the mixed activities which could be used to make the class diverse Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA 37 Student: Dinh Thai Son 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edu/guides-sub-pages/motivating-students/v Pamila J Florea (2011, May) Using Improvisational Exercises for Increasing Speaking and Listening Skills The Asian EFL Journal Professional Teaching Articles – CEBU Conference Issue (2), Volume 52, 46-56 Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA 39 Student: Dinh Thai Son Student ID:97011501057 APPENDIX The questionnaires will be enclosed Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA 40 Student: Dinh Thai Son Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student ID:97011501057 41 Student: Dinh Thai Son Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student ID:97011501057 42 Student: Dinh Thai Son Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student ID:97011501057 43 Student: Dinh Thai Son Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student ID:97011501057 44 Student: Dinh Thai Son Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student ID:97011501057 45 Student: Dinh Thai Son Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student ID:97011501057 46 Student: Dinh Thai Son Instructor: Nguyen Thanh Tuan, MA Student ID:97011501057 47 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