(Skkn 2023) designing listening mock test to support 10 graders to get familiar with listening questions in the final exams

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO NGHỆ AN SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM Topic: DESIGNING LISTENING MOCK TEST TO SUPPORT 10 GRADERS TO GET FAMILIAR WITH LISTENING QUESTIONS IN THE FINAL EXAMS Scope: Theory and Methods of Teaching English Nghe An, April, 2023 SỞ GD&ĐT NGHỆ AN TRƯỜNG THPT DIỄN CHÂU SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM Topic: DESIGNING LISTENING MOCK TEST TO SUPPORT 10 GRADERS TO GET FAMILIAR WITH LISTENING QUESTIONS IN THE FINAL EXAMS Scope: Theory and Methods of Teaching English Teacher: Nguyen Thi Mai Lien School: Dien Chau High School Specialized Team: Language Phone: 0977.423.259 Nghe An, April, 2023 TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ii LIST OF SYMBOLS, ABBREVIATIONS iii PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale for the study Research purpose Subjects and objects of research Scientific hypothesis Scope of research Research methods Research and experimental time Contributions of the study PART II CONTENT CHAPTER THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL BACKGROUND 1.1 Theoretical background of the topic 1.1.1 Denifition of Listening Mock test 1.1.2 Form of Listening Mock test 1.1.3 The importance of designing Listening Mock test 1.2 Practical background of the topic 1.2.1 The need of Listening Mock test 1.2.2 Analysis the urgency of the study 10 CHAPTER 2: DESIGNING LISTENING MOCK TEST FOR 10 GRADERS 12 2.1 The purpose of designing Listening Mock Test 12 2.2 The process of designing Listening Mock Test 12 2.3 Production of designing Listening Mock Test 13 CHAPTER 3: RESULTS OF THE STUDY 46 3.1 The feasibility of the study 46 3.2 Result of pedagogical experiment 47 PART III: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 50 Conclusion 50 Suggestions 50 REFERRENCES i APPENDIX ii i LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES List of Tables Page Table 1.1 Listening actual test 2022-2023 Table 1.2 Analysis the urgency of the study 11 Table 3.1 Analysis the feasibility of the study 46 Table 3.2 The statistics of the four classes 47 List of Figures Page Figure 1.1 The English skill toward students Figure 1.2 The survey conducted from students Figure 1.3 The survey conducted from teachers Figure 1.4 The urgency of the study 10 Figure 3.1 The feasibility of the study 45 Figure 3.2 Result after the experiment 47 ii LIST OF SYMBOLS, ABBREVIATIONS ICT Information Communication Technology MCQs Multiple Choice Questions EFL English as a Foreign Language ESL English as a Second Language TV Television MT Mock Test Ls Listening skill LMT Listening Mock Test EA Expected Answer iii PART I INTRODUCTION Rationale for the study The first reason is the important role of listening skill in learning English We all know that today, learning English is extremely necesssary for students English is the language which is capable of connecting the whole world together The fact that many students are good at grammartical points but their English communication ability is still weak, so they have to give up their dream because of their lack of English skill It can be said that English is the first and foremost important standard for an employee who wants to study and work in international environment, not only foreign companies but many domestic companies also appreciate this requirement of staff Therefore, it is important for students - the future residents of a country to master in English to study and work in an English speaking and listening environment Listening is one of the most vital skills in learning a language, one of the four main language learning skills Learning through listening will help students improve their listening skill by practising listening a lot day by day Students of all levels gain a lot of benefit immensely from listening as without it, students can never be fluent in the language Listening is considered as a crucial building block in early language acquisition process and can greatly improve your success in sounding like a native It is important to say that listening has an important role to play in English subject at high school It is a part of listening test which account for 25 percent in the real exam By merely immersing in the language by listening, students will not gain an independent use of the language but also get better result in listening tests at school Another reason for choosing the topic is because of the necessary of helping students improve listening skill before real tests by doing the Mock test Due to the requirement in high school program, English is one of the compulsory subjects and a graduation exam subject in high school Also, English, in the general education program, is built as a subject with the direction of communication So it is necessary for students to learn English at school to get knowledge and skills by doing Mock test Mock exams are so important to help students prepare well before the real exams Not only they allow students to practice key questions and test learnt knowledge, the Mock tests also allow students to complete the exam under the same time conditions as the real thing if them properly Forming listening skills is the ultimate goal of the teaching process and improving listening skills through Mock tests is an important reason for the study Being learned and practiced in a positive and favorable language environment will help students have good attitide to practice listening and apply the knowledge they have learned to the listening test better From my educational experience in teaching English at high school, I have noticed that most high school students are very afraid of learning English, often feel very tired during the lessons and they have no interest in learning skills, especially in listening skill The students often find it difficult to listen the dialogue in their textbook “Tiếng Anh 10” The difficulty of 10 graders at Dienchau high school when learning listening skill can be easily seen in the listening lessons How to make students keen on learning English and listening skill? How to make English lessons become more exciting to attract students focus on the lesson? What should be done to complete the goal of the foreign language teaching process as helping students grade 10 to enhance their listening skills in English as a compulsory subject at school is one of my concern The first and foremost vital role is support 10 graders with their listening test at school to help them the middle and final test with good result is a necesssary goal for an English teacher Those are some of my concerns in teaching English as a second language at high school, so I always wonder how to find an effective method to support my students in learning English listening skill It is the reason why I decided to design Listening Mock test to help students grade 10 practise listening in the direction of real test format as much as possible For the above reasons, I decided to choose the topic: “Designing Listening Mock test to support 10 graders to get familiar with listening questions in the final exams” Research purpose The purpose of the study is to designing a variety of listening practice tests bases on the listening skill in the textbook “Tiếng Anh 10” (Global Success) to help learners have more opportunities to practise listening during their learning English at school Also, the Mock tests will support 10 graders get used to listening questions in the real tests as middle and final term test to get better results Subjects and objects of research 3.1 Research subjects - Listening Mock test for 10 graders - The process of designing Listening Mock test to help student develop listening skill 3.2 Research object Listening Mock test in accordance with listening part in the real tests to help students develop listening skill Scientific hypothesis English listening environment has an important meaning in forming and training students' listening skills If students are practised listening in an environment of positive language practice, they will be more confident and better at listening skill Scope of research The topic only focus on designing Listening exericises in accordance with the listening part in the real tests of middle and final term exam to help students get familiar with listening skill in English grade 10 Research methods To the experience idea, I used a combination of research methods including: 6.1 Theoretical research Researching scientific works, articles, publications related to teaching listening topics; related to listening skill for high school students Study materials related to enhancing listening skill for high school students 6.2 Investigation method - Make a questionnaire about the attitde of students to using methods and techniques in listening skill in English for high school students through designing Listening Mock tests - Make a survey of pedagogical experiment results after teaching listening for students between the experimental group and the control class about changing in students' listening skill 6.3 Experimental method of pedagogy After having the content and methods, teaching listening in “Tiếng Anh 10” based on the form of the test, we conducted experiments in Dienchau high schools to test the objectivity and practicality of the topic Experimental results were assessed through the results of the questionnaire Research and experimental time The topic was studied and conducted extensive pedagogical experiments at schools from the 2022-2023 school year The process of completing data and the project is in the school year 2022-2023 Contributions of the study Listening is an input acquisition that the more practice students get, the better they will improve their skill The practice tests will help students improve listening skill day by day in the format of the real test Therefore, the 10 graders will get familiar with the real test to be ready to get better result in listening The topic builds up Listening Mock tests that are suitable for students to practice at home by selecting an effective source from the textbook “Tiếng Anh 10” The Mock test will help students grade 10 improve their listening skill in learning English PART II CONTENT CHAPTER THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL BACKGROUND This chapter will provide readers information about different aspects of theoretical background of Listening skill, Mock test and the importance of adapting listening skill in the process of teaching and learning English reading skill 1.1 Theoretical background of the topic 1.1.1 Denifition of Listening Mock test Mock test is very important for students who are preparing for the exam Mock tests make students familiar with the style and scope of the question paper Managing to finish the exam on time is really challenging Mock tests help them with time management which, in itself, is half the work done The candidate is given the chance to work on this problem and turn it into one of their strengths After taking several mock tests, the student is in a position to work on his weaknesses and to chalk out a plan to overcome them “Mock Tests are model tests for practice for future exams Teachers try to make Mock Test almost same as any competitive exam This helps student to self asses himself and finally provide him chance to improve before actual exam” [9] Mock tests are similar trial exams taken before final exam Mock tests are nothing but trial exams that people take before appearing for the final exam so that they can assess their level of preparation It is said that "practice makes perfect" So it is one of the ways which leads a student to perfection Mock tests are arranged to give students a feel of the real exam For most of the students about to take a major exam for the first time in their lives, mock tests provide a trial run Being placed in the same situation and feeling the same amount of pressure before the actual competative exam will inculcate some self-analytical capacity and confidence in the student Mock Test brings benefits for both teachers and students in EFL teaching and learning * For students Students who the Mock Test as a frequent practice will gain huge benefits: - Mock Test can be attempted multiple times to makes student more perfect in particular subject - Shows how well they are prepared for the exam and let them know their strength as well their weakness - Mock test guides them on which topics they have to focus more and gives students a idea of time management - For students who are not hard-working, Mock test can be a useful wake-up call to practise more before the exams - For all students, Mock test may highlight areas that really need more work and regular practice to improve their learning result * For teachers - The teachers can using Mock test to know the strength as well weakness of their students - Teachers come to know which topics are grasped by the students and which are not to have a suitable method to each Unit and types of questions - Conducting Mock Test provides an objective record of student progress which is very useful when students want to complain later that the final results weren't as good as they should have been It can be a quides them on which topics they have to focus more and teacher provide more leactures Mock test helps students to assess their own preparation Many a times mock tests are prepared by the teachers who are very experienced and they follow the same pattern and questions so it makes us study in the right direction These mock or practice tests are extremely benifical to students preparing well in competative exam 1.1.2 Form of Listening Mock test Multiple attempt of Mock Test help students revise the knowledge to prapare carefully before the actual exam This way help students remember what they have learned and perform well in actual exam These are some kinds of Listening question often appearing in the actual tests: True False, Multiple Choice questions and Gap filling Table 1.1 Listening actual test 2022-2023 SỞ GD&ĐT NGHỆ AN TRƯỜNG THPT (Đề thi có trang) KÌ THI KHẢO SÁT CUỐI KỲ NĂM HỌC 2022 – 2023 Bài thi môn: TIẾNG ANH 10 Thời gian làm bài: 70 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề MÃ ĐỀ Họ tên thí sinh: ………………………………………………… SBD:………… I PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM Listen to the recording and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) You will hear the recording twice STATEMENTS A B Question The guest of the show is a teacher Question Tip three: Don’t think too much before bedtime Question We can turn television on to help us sleep well Question It is good to play video games before bed Question When you go to bed, turn your mobile phone off Listen to some requests from a manager and circle the best answer to these questions Question When does Susanne ask Mario to write a short report about their new With the mothods given above during my doing teaching experience, I conducted the survey from 30 EFL high school teachers teaching grade 10 on the Google form and have the result about the feasibility of the study.After having the result of the feasibility of the study on Google form Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14UiotFXRzZKzg3y1_YymMyucx4oFgLEAVjV gIZIBBE0/edit?fbclid=IwAR0U2BQtyhZFdjlAayttsR24rYkpMy0bpBiNfep3WVf voPbPNeZm6awoXWA I presented a detailed analysis of the feasibility of the study as following Table 3.1 Analysis the feasibility of the study Level Level (Not possible) Level (Little possible) Level (Possible) Method 1 16 3.26 Method 17 3.4 Method 15 3.26 Method 4 18 3.47 Method Level (Very Pass Everage possible) level As can be seen from the table, the pass level for four methods mentioned above is points Method and method have the lowest point with 3.26, while Method and method have higher points with 3.4 and 3.47, perspectively Therefore, it is feasible for the study to be applied in teaching listening skill in English lessons in high school 3.2 Result of pedagogical experiment This part presents the Listening questions design as Mock test based on the reading skill in Tieng Anh 10 through applications of using Mock test form in teaching and learning English These are the primary rationales on which I have adapted Listening skills in “Tiếng Anh 10- Global success” into Listening questions in the Mock tests to provide more opportunities for 10 graders to practise listening Objective of pedagogical experiment is to evaluate the results of using Mock test for Listening skill in the textbook in accordance with listening questions to support students with listening sources and develop listening skill for students in teaching English 10 The study also determine the feasibility of using Mock test as a teaching methods in teaching listening skill in English 10 Subjects of pedagogical experiment are 10 graders from classes in Dien Chau high school selected for experimentation in the school year 2022-2023 47 - Experimental Classes are classes with a total number of 80 students For experimental classes, I conducted teaching result based on lessons of listening skill that designed as in the content of Chapter - Control Classes are classes with a total number of 80 students For the control classes, I conducted teaching result based on the textbooks by traditional teaching methods with reference and lesson plans prapared by my colleagues to deliver lessons Regarding the content of tests, quantitative assessment to verify the feasibility of the topic, I conducted of listening Mock tests in the form of final tests with the same content of experimental classes and control classes (with the contents of the tests in the appendix) at the following times: - The first test: conduct test after completing the Listening lesson of Unit - The second test: conduct test after completing the Listening lesson of Unit - The third test: conduct test after completing the Listening lesson of Unit After three tests, I got the average points of students in classes with two groups and have the results as following: Table 3.2 The statistics of the four classes Mark Class 10A3, 10A7 (80 students account for 100 %) 10A11, 10A12 (80 students account for 100 %) Mark Mark Mark Mark ≥ 8.5 6.5 ─ 8.4 5.0 ─ 6.4 < 5.0 14 students 20 students 26 students 20 students account for acount for acount for acount for 17,5 % 25 % 32.5 % 25 % student 10 students 27 students 35 students account for account for account for account for 10% 12,5 % 33,75% 43,75% The table provided the result of students after teacher made pedagogical experiment for the study I designed Listening questions in Listening Skill from Unit to Unit 10 and asked 160 students from four classes 10A3, 10A7, 10A11 and 10A12 at Dien Chau high school in the school year 2022-2023 The students of these four classes have the same level of English The students in class 10A3 and 10A7 were applied the Listening Mock tests from Unit to Unit 10 whereas classes the students in 10A11 and 10A12 only did the given tasks in textbook Students in four classes took part in pedagogical experiment and the result was that the students in 10A3 and 10A7 got better marks in the Mock tests and final term test than those in two classes 10A11 and 10A12 The opportunities to practise the 48 different listening questions of listening section in Mock tests has helped the students in Experimental Classes get better result in Listening skill When being asked about the difficulty level of the listening task, students in 10A3 and 10A7 answered that get used to the type of Listening questions in the tests and opportunities to practise many Mock tests help them find it easier to the actual listening tests 50 45 40 35 30 25 Experimental Classes 20 Control Classes 15 10 >=8.5 6.5-8.4 5-6.4