Applying extraccurricular activities to enhance language competence of students grade 10b at hung vuong high quality school

HUNG VUONG UNIVERSITY FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT -[\ [\ - LE NGOC MAI APPLYING EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS GRADE 10B AT HUNG VUONG HIGH - QUALITY SCHOOL B.A GRADUATION PAPER FIELD: ENGLISH METHODOLOGY Phu Tho, 2020 HUNG VUONG UNIVERSITY FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT -[\ [\ - LE NGOC MAI APPLYING EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS GRADE 10B AT HUNG VUONG HIGH - QUALITY SCHOOL (È3'ӨNG MӜT SӔ HOҤ7ĈӜNG NGOҤ,.+Ï$Ĉӆ 1Ỉ1*&$2 1Ă1*/Ӵ&1*Ð11*Ӳ CӪA HӐC SINH LӞP 10B TҤ,75ѬӠNG TRUNG HӐC PHӘ 7+Ð1*&+Ҩ7/ѬӦ1*&$2+Ô1*9ѬѪ1* Tӌ1+3+Ò7+Ӑ) B.A GRADUATION PAPER FIELD: ENGLISH METHODOLOGY SUPERVISOR: DAO THI THUY HUONG, M.A Phu Tho, 2020 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to a number of people, without whose support, this graduation paper would not have been completed First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest thanks to my supervisor Dao Thi Thuy Huong, M.A for the wholehearted guidance she gave me while I was doing this research I am truly grateful to her for her ideas comments and instructions, as well as her constant support throughout my research Secondly, I would like to thank all the lecturers, teachers and staff at Hung Vuong University, especially those in Department of Foreign languages who have created favorable conditions for me to study and write graduation paper Thirdly, my sincere thanks go to all teachers and students in Hung Vuong High ± Quality School whose endless enthusiasm has helped me to carry surveys which are very useful for my thesis Last but not least, I would like to show my gratitude to my family, my friends for their spiritual, emotional and financial support and for giving me the optimism to continue my learning Phu Tho, May 2020 Le Ngoc Mai ii ABSTRACT In the upper-secondary schools in Vietnam, with the innovation of textbook for 10th form students in light of Communicative Approach, the teaching of the four skills has been much more focused on So far, the English teaching methods have been on the way to perfect However, speaking is a crucial skill that the teachers of English experience a lot of difficulties In order to improve the quality of speaking, the thesis limits itself to the study on using role-play activities to improve speaking skills for grade 10th This study is to bring some effectiveness to the process of speaking in the classroom The study has been conducted for the purpose of testing the effectiveness of using extracurricular activities to improve speaking skill of grade 10th students at Hung Vuong High ± Quality School, PhuTho Province Thus, two sets of survey TXHVWLRQQDLUHV DUH XVHG WR LQYHVWLJDWH VWXGHQW¶V DWWLWXGHV SHUVSHFWLYHV WRZDUG speaking skills and extracurricular activities adapted during speaking lessons, to ILQGRXWWKHWHDFKHUV¶GLIILFXOWLHVIRUFDUU\LQJRXWWKLVWHFKQLTXH It is hoped that the thesis will make a small contribution to the improvement of learning and teaching speaking skill iii TABLE OF CONTENT PART A: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale Previous research 2.1 In the world 2.2 In Viet Nam Research purposes 10 Research questions 10 Methodology: 10 Data collection instruments: 11 Participants 11 Significance of the research 11 Research scope 11 10 Outline of the study 11 PART B: CONTENT 13 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 13 1.1 Literature review 13 1.1.1 Speaking skills 13 1.1.2: Extracurricular activities 20 1.1.3: Advantages and Disadvantages of using extra ± activities 26 1.1.4 Some extracurricular activities to enhance English speaking skills for student 30 CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 44 2.1 Research setting: 44 2.2 Subject of the research 44 2.3 Participants of the research 44 2.4 Data collection instruments 45 2.4.1 Survey questionnaires 45 2.4.2 Interview 46 iv 2.4.3 Observation 46 2.5 Research procedure 47 2.6 Data analysis 48 CHAPTER 3: THE CURRENT SITUATIONS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING AT HUNG VUONG HIGH QUALITY HIGH SCHOOL 49 3.1 Result from questionnaires 49 3.2 Result from interview 52 3.3 Result from observation 53 CHAPTER 4: EXPERIMENT 55 4.1 Experiment 55 4.1.1 Description of the experimental teaching 55 5HVXOWIURPVWXGHQWV¶TXHVWLRQQDLUHDIWHUWKHH[SHULPHQW 57 4.2 Findings and discussion 61 4.3 Implications 63 4.3.1 For teacher 63 4.3.2 For students 64 PART C: CONCLUSION 66 Summary 66 Limitations of the study 67 3.Suggestions for the future study 68 REFERENCES 69 APPENDIX 1: v LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1 Data collected from survey questionnaire before experiment 49 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 4.1.1 The level of the usefulness of extracurricular activities 57 )LJXUH6WXGHQWV¶HYDOXDWLRQRIWKHHIIHFWLYHQHVVRIextracurricular activities 58 Figure 4.1.3 The improvement of students after using extracurricular activities 59 )LJXUH6WXGHQWV¶GLIILFXOWLHVLQXVLQJH[WUDFXUULFXODUDFWLYLWLHV 60 vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CLT Communicative language teaching EFL English as a foreign language ELT English Language Teaching ESL English as a second language PART A: INTRODUCTION Rationale Nowadays, English has become very popular language around the world There are more than 700 million English users in the world which is a terrible number to prove the importance of English According to the recent research conducted in America last January of this year: 103% of the travelers is good at speaking English This means that people use English to communicate everyone is very popular, so this language widespread everywhere, especially in rural areas Students in the countryside have learned English since they were in primary school Besides, many language centers are opened to serve our learning English is a useful language for us Firstly, Learning English helps people communicate and travel easily Especially, it helps people from different countries work together Secondly, it is a good opportunity for our career We can communicate with international customers and partners without language barriers to get more opportunities Thirdly, English is the main language of newspapers and books In our work, it helps us understand documents relating to our job Furthermore, we have a good job and high salary in the future which have a change of studying aboard Today, Learning English become easy with everything around our life We can study with Internet which we chat with foreign friends and find information We can also walk the park and exchange with foreign travelers Learning English is very important with us which helps us to attend good results in the working We must try to learn good English because it is one the most difficult languages In almost school, the English club program is a language program that is to enhance the students achievement in mastering English skill, there are four skills that should be mastered in learning English They are listening, speaking, reading and writing By mastering listening and reading, students can get some information from what they listening and read Meanwhile, speaking and writing are kinds of output skills which mean that the students will produce ideas, but in this research will more focused baseGRQVWXGHQWVெVSHDNLQJVNLOOEHFDXVHLQWKH (QJOLVKFOXEH[WUDFXUULFXODUPRUHGRPLQDWWRHQULFKLQJVWXGHQWVெVSHDNLQJVNLOO Enriching students language program is needed to enhance students language profiency in school Another aim English club program is to support the students academic achievement and improve students ability in English The benefits joining English club are students will be able to participate the various activities based on the club objectives, students will have an opportunity to take part in the national and international English competition, students will be able to develop their listening and speaking skill through formal and informal situations and the last is students will have a chance to go aboard and learn different cultures Hung Vuong High Quality School is a new school in Phu Tho province with a completely new environment and learning method I think the application of extracurricular activities to the curriculum is a new and good method that can help students gain more experiences and improve their knowledge, especially when it comes to learning speaking skills in English New learning methods and ways of acquiring new knowledge will help both students and teachers increase interest in learning, effort and good results Previous research 2.1 In the world Studies Related to Teaching and Developing Speaking Skills $FFRUGLQJWR³,PSURYLQJ(QJOLVK/DQJXDJH6SHDNLQJ6NLOOVRI$MORXQ1DWLRQDO 8QLYHUVLW\ 6WXGHQWV´ LQ  This study aimed to enhance the oral communication skills (conversations) of ANU students The sample of the study consisted of 20 students (12 female students and male students) all of them are studying English language, the majority of the sample were the seniors and juniors students, while freshman were minority students The researchers used random sample method To achieve the objectives of the present study, the researchers used semi- structured interview as an instrument for data collection The results of this study revealed that the students of ANU face many problems APPENDIX 3: INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR TEACHERS BEFORE EXPERIMENT Have you ever applied extracurricular activities in teaching speaking? When you apply extracurricular activities? What are the advantages of extracurricular activities? Do you get difficulties when applying extracurricular activities? What are they? How many types of extracurricular activities you apply for teaching speaking skill? Thank you for your cooperation! 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