Skkn Drawbacks Of The Tenth Grade Students At Yen Dinh 2 High School On Pronouncing Some English Final Sounds And How To Enhance Their Pronunciation Skill Through Pronunciation Parts In Language Focus Lesson

TABLE OF CONTENT Sr No I 1.1 1.2 Topic INTRODUCTION Rationale Objectives and research questions of the study Page No 1 1.3 1.4 Scope and objects of the study Methodology of the study II DEVELOPMENT 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Overview of pronunciation Definition of pronunciation Ending sounds The setting of the study 2 2.5 What are drawbacks when students pronounce English final sounds 2.6 Suggestions for students 2.7 Suggestions for teachers 2.8 Applying suggestions 11 2.9 Results 14 III CONCLUSION 16 3.1 Limitations of the study 16 3.2 Proposals for further research 17 REFERENCE 18 LIST OF ABBREVIATE 19 skkn I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale Learning another language is not easy and English is a difficult language to learn as it is a mixture of many different languages  Vietnamese learners  can have a hard time trying to learn it as there are not many similarities between the two languages.  One of the biggest challenges that Sts have met is pronunciation Vietnamese Sts have many difficulties in pronouncing English Theoretical phonological research about final consonants in the Vietnamese language and English has been carried out to characterize the difficulties Data from Vietnamese informants were collected and analyzed, then synthesized to the most significant problems Vietnamese effort to pronounce English wordfinal consonants will be towards omitting, adding schwa or replacing by sounds closer to those existing in their mother-tongue Results of native speakers’ evaluation of Vietnamese-accented final consonants are also concluded to clarify how comprehensible informants’ pronunciation is That’s the reason I would like to present the thesis title “Drawbacks of the the tenth-grade students at YD2HS on pronouncing some English final sounds and how to enhance their pronunciation’s ability through pronunciation parts in language focus lessons” With the thesis I hope that I will contribute my little experience to help my students like and boost their pronunciation skill in the next courses and in the future 1.2 Objectives and research questions of the study The major objective of the study was to solve problems of the tenth-grade students at YD2HS in pronouncing English final sounds This present study addressed these matters below:           The way students self-study on their own           The most common problems they encounter          The strategies which enhance them to get over and succeed in pronouncing English final sounds Research questions a) What are the real situations of teaching and learning English pronunciation skill for the tenth-grade students at YD2HS? b) What are the drawbacks of the tenth-grade students YD2HS when they pronounce the ending sounds? c) What are some solutions to improve their English final pronunciation? 1.3 Scope and objects of the study The study was designed to boost the students’ English final sounds and change the students’ opinions of pronunciation by skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson encouraging them to effective techniques pronounce correctly through some The study was carried out in 11 periods and the participants of this study were 34 students from class 10A8 at YD2HS during the academic year 2021-2022 1.4 Methodology of the study Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods are used Firstly, the study established on teacher's main activities: teaching time in the class Secondly, class observation has been made to catch on obstacles among sts while they are pronouncing English final consonants Qualitative thematic analysis was used for the examination of the data collected For observation data, this process involved identifying and categorizing all classroom events that happened in pronunciation classes observed, such as how the teacher instructed students on a new sound, how the teacher asked students to practice their pronunciation skills, and so on The researcher transcribed and read the transcripts to find out themes and subthemes in terms of interview data Through these steps, initial themes and subthemes emerged, and then they were refined many times before having the final framework Based on what I have collected, I would like to give some effective ways to improve this problem Other sources of data come from pronunciation parts from the textbooks The analysis of the data wishfully will create reliable results for the teaching of pronunciation to students at YD2HS I also use some related thesis and books or some related information on the Internet and from my fellows II DEVELOPMENT 2.1 Overview of pronunciation Pronunciation is more than 'listen and repeat' Pronunciation includes features of language (vocabulary and grammar) and skills (speaking and listening) Like vocabulary and grammar, we pronounce by noticing and understanding rules and patterns which lie beneath the surface of speech For example, if an English word has two syllables, the stress is usually on the first syllable for nouns and adjectives, and the second syllable for verbs Since pronunciation is part of speaking, it is also physical To pronounce a new language, we need to re-train the muscles we use to speak And pronunciation involves listening to how the language sounds We can practise by focusing on connected speech while playing fragments from speech recordings skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson 2.2 Definition of pronunciation Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language Contested or widely mispronounced words are typically verified by the sources from which they originate, such as names of cities and towns or the word.  A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as: the duration of the cultural exposure of their childhood, the location of their current residence, speech or voice disorders, their ethnic group, their social class, or their education 2.3 Ending sounds 2.3.1: Grammar meaning Ending sounds are the grammatical items and parts of the statement which make the speech clear and persuadable Grammatically, plural form, possessive, ton of tenses of verbs for the most part, merely need an addition of ending sounds Awareness of grammar or structure of language can result in more efficient speaking Pronouncing without ending sounds, we may supersede plural form of a noun or possessive 2.3.2 Importance and significance of pronouncing the ending sounds for both EFL learners and ESL speakers A common error that ESL speakers make when speaking English and learning English pronunciation is to leave out consonant sounds at the end of words The reason for this is simple -some languages have different rules for using final consonants and in many languages there are fewer final consonants used than in English In Mandarin (basic language in China) for example, the only sounds used in final position of words are n and ng So when a Mandarin speaker learns English, it is often difficult for them to produce the final consonants in words Teaching people to say the final sounds is a important for both English pronunciation and accent reduction.  Leaving out final consonants in English can make it very difficult to understand what we are saying, and it is also one of the major factors in making English sound heavily accented Some of the main consonant sounds speakers leave out include: p, t, k , b, d, g, and f So, for example, if you say the word “seat” without the final t sound, the word is changed to “see” This will skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson contribute to an accent and can also lead to significant misunderstandings since the final consonant sound is often critical to the meaning of the English word.  2.3.3 Types of final sounds a Ending Blends: -ct, -ft, -lb, -ld, -lf, -lk, -lp, -lt, -mp, -nd, -nt, -pt, -sk, -sp, -st, & -xt Many final blend lists you’ll find include “r-blends” like -rd and -rk These are not included on this chart, as I believe it’s more beneficial to teach these as bossy r vowel patterns instead b Ending Welded Sounds: -am, -an, -all, -ang, -ank, -ing, -ink, _ong, _onk, _ung, & _unk c Floss Endings: -ff, -ll, & –ss (You could also have learners write in zz here, too.) d Final /k/ Endings: –ck for short vowel words, -ke for silent e long vowel words, -k for consonant + -k, -k for vowel team words,  and – c on the end of two-syllable words e Digraphs, Trigraphs: -ck, -tch and -dge for short vowel words, ch and -ge for vowel team or long vowel words (technically – ge would be a soft g ending, but I felt it needed to go with -dge), ph, -sh, and -th f Silent Letters: silent b in lamb, silent l in half, silent l in palm, and silent l in yolk 2.4 The setting of the study 2.4.1 The setting of the study This study was carried out at YD2HS Here, English is taught in classrooms with five parts: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and language focus within 37 weeks Generally, it is normal that there are about 30 to 45 students in peer classroom at high school They are different individuals in a class Different individuals may have different learning styles and different kinds of work They want to get different degrees of care and attention from the teacher It means that there are different reactions from students toward pronunciation tasks Moreover, duration we use to teach pronunciation is very short in each lesson (only 10-15 minutes for the whole unit including all skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing and language focus) From those If teacher realizes the differences among individuals in the class when they create an activity, the students will take part in the lesson actively skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson 2.4.2 The students’ English background and their English levels It stands to reason that YD2HS is situated in Yen Truong commune, Yen Dinh district Most residents here have medium living condition even low living condition, so most Sts learn English with very simple ways They only learn English from their teacher at school These students have medium level, few also have low level Others, but not large amount of Sts with good living condition from their parents, find out some extra ways for learning English such as learning outside the school, using cassette, computer and cell phone to learn online or in an English center This group of the Sts has good knowledge It means that students' language level is different Therefore, teacher may have some difficulties in choosing a suitable teaching method, language and activity which are used in a class Besides, most of their families live on agriculture so that they not have the best conditions to learn English Moreover, they don’t have the habit of practicing pronunciation skill to improve their communication It is grammar that is focused so that Ss can pass the exams 2.5 What are drawbacks when students pronounce English final sounds? Vietnamese phonology seems to be more complicated than English, but in the long run, this system becomes simpler and more acquisitive than English It may take a non-native speaker of Vietnamese two months to learn Vietnamese phonology profoundly Vietnamese is supposed to be easy to phonetically acquire when speakers have an efficient input, especially of the tones That is one of the reasons why Vietnamese native speakers have to deal with many obstacles to learn foreign languages which are not relatively close to and as easy as their language, for instance, Russian, French, English or Spanish There has been quite a number of studies about Vietnamese’s difficulties in pronouncing English consonants and clusters Some researcher showed that the data were from numerous informants, is unilateral, containing only problems of people from the North by the confusion most obviously between /s/ and / ʃ/, /tr/ and /tʃ/, / ʒ/ and /z/ Those findings, which were mentioned in the table by Center of Applied Linguistics (Neumann, 2007), are applicable for every Vietnamese learner as it contains all the errors that Vietnamese speakers of any regions of the country can make They are also persuasive to linguists who have certain knowledge about Vietnamese dialects Taking final consonants into consideration, for example, /t/ and /d/ at word-finally are commonly confused with /t/ and /d/ everywhere, whereas /p/ sound in /pop/ pop is often mispronounced as /bop/ Bob by Southern people and / ʃ/ sound in /push/ push becomes /pus/ puss by northerners It is easily seen from this data that English has a number of consonants, especially final consonants and clusters that not skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson      Pencils Ending Blends worksheet Ending Blends worksheet Dry erase markers Whiteboard C Teaching procedures I Class organization: (1 minute) II New lesson 1min GREETING Good morning, my dears I'm glad to see you Are you in a good mood today? If you are ready, let's begin our lesson So, the theme of our lesson is … Ending Blends =>What are the ending blends? How many ending blends we have? PUTTING THE AIMS OF THE LESSON mins WARMING-UP ACTIVITY T: show the Sts a picture of ending consonant blends ENDING SOUNDS’ ACTIVITIES 4.1 Finish the word  activities 10 mins Part A: With Pictures Take the picture cards with the first ending sound (for example, /lk/) and quickly review the picture names of all 10 pictures on those cards with the Sts T: [showing picture cards] Look at these pictures    5 pictures         13 skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson 10 pictures (review)             Now you name each picture as I point to it Sts: tent, milk, lamp, sink and hand T: Good Now place the first picture card underneath or to the left of the sound cards, which should remain propped up so the child is looking directly at them while doing this activity 10 T: Now I’m going to put a card with three pictures next to the sound cards             Then I’ll say a word in two parts             I’ll start with the first part of the word and then I’ll say the last sound             You listen, point to the sound card for the last sound, and tell me the word             The word is the same as one of these pictures             Let’s one Listen: mi….lk. mi • • lk lk…lk             What’s the word? Sts: milk! T: Yes! Now point to the /lk/ card and say its sound 14 skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson mins Sts: [pointing to sound card] /lk/ Part B: Without Pictures 10 mins After going through all the words for those three ending sounds with the picture cards, go through the same words without the picture cards This makes the activity just a bit harder for the child Keep all three sound cards in front of your Sts 4.2 Independent working time activities -Give students the Ending Blends worksheet -Read the instructions to the students -Give the students time to complete the assignment mins T: Look at each illustration What consonant blend matches the end of the word? Color in the bubble next to the correct answer => sink, milk, tent, lamp, and hand Differentiation Enrichment: Ask students to use words with ending blends in sentences Challenge them to use at least two words with the same ending blend in the same sentence Support: Give the students only the consonant ending nd to work with Review and closing: Have the students say one new word as they exit the classroom Ask the students to identify the ending sounds for their new words mins PRACTICE Listen The speaker will say sentence a or b Circle the one you hear 15 skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson a a lot of mills b a lot of milk a this is a lamp b this is a lamp a this is a hen b this is a hand a there is a tent b there is ten mins ASSESSMENT Have your students completed the Ending Blends worksheet mins REVIEW AND CLOSING -Have the students said one new word as they exit the classroom -Ask the students to identify the consonant ending for their new words 2.7 Results This year, I taught 10A8 in the 10th grade All of these classes couldn’t well in pronunciation especially the ending sounds After I put into practice some methods to boost Sts to pronounce in pronunciation parts of language focus lessons The result is quiet tolerable Class Time Exellent sts Quite good Average sts sts 10A8 The beginning of the 0,5 % 4,5 % 60 % st term 10A8 The end of the1st term 1,5 % 10 % 64 % 10A8 The beginning of the 2.0 % 10 % 64 % nd term Excellent : 9-10 points quite good: 7-8 points Average: 5-6, points Bad: < points Bad  sts 35 % 24,5 % 24 % III CONCLUSION Limitations of the study Because of having a long time in teaching English at YD2HS, I am able to realize clearly the current situation of pronouncing the English ending sounds here Therefore, I have conducted this with a view to finding out drawbacks encountered by the 10th form students However, to boost the situation is not easy and its process take a lot of time, enthusiasm as well as knowledge for both the T and the Sts As I briefed this study above, only some basic and simple ways are found out to motivate Sts to pronounce correctly Proposals for further research 16 skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson On the grounds of the findings and the shortcomings of the study, several tips for further research are conducted Teachers at high schools have more useful opportunities to meet, discuss and exchange their knowledge, skills and experiences in teaching not only grammar but also skills In drawing things to a close, I am deeply hopeful that teachers always spend time learning and finding out new methods in teaching English XÁC NHẬN CỦA THỦ Thanh Hóa, ngày 14 tháng năm 2022 TRƯỞNG ĐƠN VỊ Tơi xin cam đoan SKKN viết, không chép nội dung người khác Nguyễn Thị Luyến 17 skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson 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Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson LIST OF ABBREVIATE YD2HS: Yen Dinh High School Sts: students T: Teacher IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet ESL: English as a Second Language EFL: English as a Foreign Language 19 skkn Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson Skkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.LessonSkkn.Drawbacks.Of.The.Tenth.Grade.Students.At.Yen.Dinh.2.High.School.On.Pronouncing.Some.English.Final.Sounds.And.How.To.Enhance.Their.Pronunciation.Skill.Through.Pronunciation.Parts.In.Language.Focus.Lesson