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1 OPENING 1.1 The reasons for choosing the topic The modern world is growing rapidly with the explosion of science and information technology To catch up with that development, as well as integrate with the trend of globalization, Viet Nam has been taking knowledge economy as a foundation for the development in which education - training and science and technology are defined as the top national policies However, language disagreement is a barrier to cooperating and acquiring technical and cultural advances between countries and nations In this context, English is considered a language that is an international language, which is the key to opening the endless knowledge treasure of mankind Therefore, the Ministry of Education and Training has set English into Vietnam's education program right from the elementary level, to provide students with initial knowledge platforms on using of foreign languages However, learning English in the mountainous area as primary schools in Ngoc Lac district in general and My Tan Primary School in particular are also faced many difficulties It is easy to see that English is an independent subject, introduced into mass school lately,starting from grade 3, and is very new to students and their parents in moutainous areas Nearly 100% students at school are in ethnic minority (Muong ethnicity), with poor economical condition, haaving psychology “afraid to say”, timid, lack of confident when communicating, especially the students in grade who are just getting used to English for the first time The time of learning in the class is too short (2 periods/week) there are not many communication environments in English along with a lot of knowledge that makes students feel difficult to learn, being stressed and feel afraid, and no longer exciting about the subject leads to highquality learning Besides during the last years of study, the heavily influenced Covid-19 pandemic caused the school to interrupt the organization of teaching, even having to leave school for several days In this situation, as an English teacher, I am very concerned about researching, exploring, referring to the same opinion of colleagues to find the measures how to make students more interested in the subject, createa comfortable atmosphere for English communicational practice, experience, contributing to improve the quality of teaching After a period of practical testing at the school in the first year, we have achieved certain efficiency I happyly share my initiative “Some solutions to improve the quality of teaching and learning English in grade at My Tan Primary School” 1.2 Research purposes Through this topic, I want to contribute a small part in innovating teaching methods towards promoting the positive, initiative of students, creating a skkn practical environment in teaching and learning English for students to improve the quality of teaching and learning English for students in grade as well as in the whole school 1.3 Research subjects English teaching activities in which the focus are extracurricular activities and the English Club at My Tan Primary School The 3rd grade students at My Tan Primary School in the period 2020 2022 1.4 Research methods - Documentary research; - Investigation, survey, collection, and statistics; - Scientific observation method; trials and experiments; - Analysis and synthesis method THE CONTENT OF EXPERIENCED INITIATIVE 2.1 Theoretical basis of experience initiative Education Law - 2019 Number: 43/2019 / QH14 in Article has regulated “The educational objectives to develop comprehensively Vietnamese people with ethics, knowledge, culture, health, aesthetics, and careers ; have the quality, capacity and sense of citizenship; have patriotism, national spirit, loyalty to the ideal of national independence and socialism; promote the potentials and creative ability of each individual; Improve people's knowledge, develop human resources, foster talents, meet the requirements of the cause of national construction and defense and international integration”; In Clause - Article of the 2019 Education Law also identifies: “Educational methods must be scientific, promote students’ positivity, self-discipline, initiative, creative thinking; Fostering to learners of self-study and cooperation ability, practical ability, learning passion and will rise” Current general education program issued together with Decision No 16/2006 / QD-BDGĐT dated 05/05/2006 of the Minister of Education and Training also stated “Have to promote the students’ positivity, suitable to the characteristics of the subject, the characteristics of the students, the conditions of each class, fostering students the method of self-study, the ability to cooperate, practice skills to apply knowledge in practice, affect emotions, bring joy, excitement and responsibility for learning to students” Teaching and learning primary English subjects, in particular, need creative boldness, and innovative teaching methods, not only teach-learning merely in classes, in textbooks The teacher needs to create a new space, a new atmosphere so that they have a comfortable feeling, escape the learning pressure as participating in the themed playground, the owner, club, skkn extracurricular activities, etc To help them relieve pressures after stressful lessons, training knowledge, developing life skills, and creating a favorite interest in this subject, contribute to improving the effectiveness of teaching and learning English in primary schools 2.2 Current condition before applying experienced initiative 2.2.1 Some characteristics about the locality and the school My Tan is a commune located in the Northeast of Ngoc Lac district, it is about 10 km from the district center by road and has a geographical position: - The East of the commune of Ngoc Lac town, Ngoc Lac district - The West borders Giao An commune, Lang Chanh district - The South borders Cao Ngoc commune, Ngoc Lac district - The North borders Dong Luong commune, Lang Chanh district The commune has a total natural area of 2,494,04 ha, with 1250 households, and 5650 ports, with two ethnic groups, accounting for the majority of Muong 98.0%, the other is some other ethnic groups The commune has 01 administrative unit, with 08 villages; There are 03 schools, 01 medical station, and 01 forest ranger station located in the area My Tan Primary School was established under Decision No 2719 dated July 3, 2018, of Ngoc Lac District People’s Committee, based on merging My Tan I Primary School and My Tan II Primary School Currently, My Tan Primary School has 02 subdivisions, the central school site is located in Mong village, other is in Thi Moc village; The whole school has 28 teachers and 522 students 2.2.2 Advantages Leadership levels and education rooms are always interested in, guiding and directing closely and helping promptly with school language teaching Organizing clustered activities for English teachers bring great effects on teaching The school leaders are interested in, helping to create all the most favorable conditions for the work of opening extracurricular activities and English clubs The school is relatively full of equipment, teaching supplies such as tape, disc, projector, story, pictures, school supplies, serving teaching and learning More and more parents are interested in helping and coordinating relatively well with teachers in their child's teaching and learning English work Many students study hard, especially love English skkn 2.2.3 Disadvantages The learning duration is too short because the school does not have enough staff of two English teachers to ensure teaching periods/week (current students only learn periods per week), while most lessons have new knowledge, students not have much time to learn deep knowledge, skills, and practice training in class The school does not have a classroom dedicated to English, audio-visual equipments are limited, There are not fully equipped with vivid and attractive visual teaching aids, so it has not created a lot of interest in English for students Due to the characteristics of mountainous areas, the English environment is limited to students’ experience and use of knowledge in practice Most students’ parents not know English so it is difficult to check and guide their children to study at home At the beginning of the new school year 2021 - 2022, after receiving the class and after the first few lessons, I gave students in the grade of the whole school to the survey test at the beginning of the year before applying measures to implement new activities enter teaching The following results: No Class Total Completed well Completed Uncompleted 3A 27 11 13 3B 24 13 3 3C 38 14 20 4 3D 35 13 18 * Data analysis The survey results show the quality of students in grade is very limited, the number of students who fulfilled well accounted for a little bit, and many children have only reached the completion level, even more, and still have not been completed Thus, if there are no positive and timely impacts to change the situation above, students will not be able to complete the program as the quality target set So I studied practicality, consulted friends, colleagues, books, internet networks, etc to find several measures below to overcome restrictions and step by step improve teaching and learning quality English of grade at My Tan Primary School 2.3 The solution applied to solve the real problem Before the above conditions, at the same time see the role, the mission of a teacher was standing on the podium I tried to explore, research and study, skkn thereby offering several solutions to improve the quality of teaching and learning English in grade through English club activities and extracurricular activities at My Tan Primary School 2.3.1 Organizing English Clubs Starting from the school year 2020 - 2021, I advised the school leader to build English Clubs for students in grade at both school sites with the aim: of creating more time for studentsto review, strengthen and practice applying learning knowledge, helping students to develop English communication skills as well as primary school life skills Taking part in the club helps students discover more about the world around them, love life, love family, friends, teachers, etc ,helps them have the opportunity to exchange, and make friends with friends new By the school year 2021 - 2022, despite complicated epidemics, the activity of the English Club is still well maintained After years of studying English club activities, I draw the organization's experience as follows: The first: Propaganda work: Because the English Club was held for the first time at the school, was not avoided in the awareness of many parents of the students, besides the excitement of many parents still did not doubt the performance of the club, so the first thing which I work is to advise the school leadership in the staff of the parents through the meetings, reporting to Ngoc Lac Education and Training Department, reporting to the commune authorities to take advantage of receiving their support management levels and support of students’ parents Image propaganda about the English Club at a parent meeting school year 2020 - 2021 - Source by Bui Thi Thuy Besides, in the lessons and in the overtime activities in class, I enlist the propaganda for students about the meaning and performance of English club activities through images and videos on the Internet, especially through YouTube channels There by many students have begun curious and boldly skkn participate in the club In the first year of implementation, we had established the club: “I love English” for students in grade Video illustration Introduction Activities of some domestic English clubs I have introduced students – Source by Bui Thi Thuy The content of the English Club is carried out consistently such as the I love Maths and Vietnamese Club of the school for years, under the direction of Ngoc Lac Department of Education and Training The second: Building the active content Each monthly club will live times/week according to topics, based on knowledge in the textbook program they learn Those contents need to provide a rich amount of knowledge that is suitable for students The subject topics can be effectively and appropriately interwoven Topics and methods of living are diverse in activities such as My Family, Let's sing together, etc The club is operated in the form of teamwork or group work, so participating students will be devided in to groups and assigned a host, along with other activities such as active games, English singing contest, masquerade party, exchanging questions, etc Besides, the club also invited representatives of friends’ schools like Ngoc Khe I Primary School, Ngoc Son Primary School, Ngoc Lac Town Primary School, etc , to attend several activities to learn and exchange mutual operational experiences Ms Mai Le (English teacher at Ngoc Son Primary School) and representative skkn of Ngoc Son Primary School came to interact with the English Club of My Tan Primary School - Source by Bui Thi Thuy For example, the following: the first month, students study by topic: “MySelf” In which they will be reviewed, strengthening knowledge, practicing training ways to greet and introduce ourselves from the name, how to spell names, age, health itself We can also divide them to study groups, organize contests between groups such as presentations about themselves, English singing, playing English games, etc , with small gifts with dynamic meaning tablets, encouraging children to study The next month guides other theme activities such as “School Objects”, “Color”, and “Family Members” The most obvious thing after club activities is being excited, more excited about learning, and deepening the knowledge learned 2.3.2 Organizing periodic English Club Exchanges between school sites Due to the characteristics of My Tan Primary School, there are school sites more than 4km away from each other so the English Club is held into individual clubs at school sites to ensure safety and convenience for students On the other hand, it is a favorable condition to organize periodic exchanges between two clubs with healthy competitiveness and no less exciting In November 2020, after many times, thought, and anxiety, with the support of school leaders, encouragement, and help of my colleagues I boldly organized the first English Club Exchange in the history of school education and was also the first time of the whole district in surprise, curiosity of a large parent and in the eagerness of the student skkn Photos of students in My Tan Primary School were joining the English Club Exchange - Source by Bui Thi Thuy The main content in the club exchange includes: Welcome culture (Art performances are performed in English) including singing and dancing The opening part, introducing the content of the exchange session (implemented in Bilingual English - Vietnamese) was hosted by me and the principal of the school Personal exchanges in the form of a gold bell with 15 questions divided into parts: Get started - Speed up - Finish Students answer questions by choosing the answer and writing on the handheld tablet I choose this form so that students from being surprised because they are interested in the exchanges of the Maths and Vietnamese clubs; Alternating between each section is the content of exchanging with participants, mainly questions and answers introducing themselves The ending part is giving gifts to the winning students who answered correctly to the end of question 15 The most surprising thing to me, the other teachers and the parents is that there were 10 students ring the golden bell This result along with the contents of introducing themselves to be carried out by students who have brought unexpected joys to many parents A special thing in this exchange is the presence and encouragement of the representatives of the People's Committee of My Tan Commune, representatives of the Study Promotion Association and representatives of the Commune Youth Union Local leaders have praised and motivated me, helping me to have more confidence to perform the next exchanges 2.3.3 Collaborate with studens’ parents to improve the quality of student learning As described in the assessment of the current situation, the quality of language learning of the mountainous schools in general and of My Tan primary school in particular is faced with many difficulties due to “ regional” factors: it skkn is too little time to stusdy in class; Ethnic students are often timid and afraid to communicate; the environment for students to communicate in English naturally is not favorable To overcome this limitation, I proactively proposed that school leaders contact and guide students’parents to cooperate in helping students to learn at home, contributing to improve learning quality, specifically as follows: 2.3.3.1 “ Immersion English language” every day I explained to students’ parents that English is also a language like all other languages, Muong ethnic students can speak mandarin because they hear, speak, and learn mandarin every day, so for students to learn English well, they need to practice listening - speaking and studying every day The materials for developing listening and speaking skills are available on You tube and on the Internet in general, with just a few simple steps, parents can help their children to practice listening - repeating the content of the lessons learned in class and will learn through Smart phones, TV, In addition, artificial intelligence applications also help parents and students access additional to access additional and extended data very easily After the implementation, I found that students’ parents were very surprised because they don’t know English, but they can easily help their children to practice English listening and speaking skills every day and without a lot of money Currently, there are 55 students’ parents of 3rd grade students who regularly support their children with this form 2.3.3.2 Suppporting and improving the quality of learning through popular English learning Apps For students’ parents with suitable economic conditions, I guide them to register and buy Apps, register for English learning support software such as Monkey Junior, Alo Kiddy, English 123,… even there was one parent who let their child learn Ekids Pro skkn 10 I guide students and their parents to apply information technology to study at home – Source by Bui Thi Thuy After the implementation, I received positive feedback from many parents: stdents were more enthusiastic about learning, improved listening and speaking skills andreflexes Currently, there are 28 families supporting students with this content 2.3.4 Organizing English extracurricular activities Through the time I realized that extracurricular activities in the school not only worked to help students work playful and healthy but also create a friendly learning environment between students with students, between this class with the other class, between students with teachers So I boldly organized extracurricular activities for English for children to have the opportunity to learn from each other, creating a positive and natural English use environment I organized extracurricular activities with the following specific forms: a Organizing students to play games Game 1: Touching the objects - Guessing the words Purpose: Help the children to remember, and engraved the vocabulary learned Preparation: A box of some models related to lesson themes such as toys, school supplies Organizational venues can be in class or schoolyard or outside the school range skkn 11 Students participate in playing the game - guessing from the first held at Thi Moc school site - Source byBui Thi Thuy How to play: Students can play individuals or exams between teams, they will be called up, blindfolded and put their hands in the box, touch and guess the name of the object in English If students read the correct name, they will get points who ever guesses the most words correctly will be the winner At the end of the game: Publish the wins and awards Game 2: Whispering Purpose: Help students to review words or sentences learned, forge listening skills, saying Preparation: Portable board, chalk Locations are usually held in the school yard Students participate in playing “Whispering” games - Source by Bui Thi Thuy How to play: Students play in the form of emulation among teams, each team is ranked with an equal membership number, I show the students at the top of rows to see a keyword or a sentence recorded in the paper without reading in a sound, then they quickly return to their row and whisper to the student behind them about the word or the sentence they read The student behind then similary trasmits the information to the person at the end of the row who will write that information on the portable board The team that writes skkn 12 quickly and correctly will get points At the end of the game, the team with the most total points will be the winner At the end of the game: Announcing the winning team and rewarded Game 3: Power transmission Purpose: Help the children check their capital and forgetheir listening reflexes Preparation: Rewards locations on the schoolyardand training grounds How to play: The whole layer ranks a circle, I raised the rules of the game and begin by calling a volunteer student A to say a verb aloud and point quickly to any other student B to transmit the message Then student B must be continued to say one active word, if it is correct, point quickly to student C to continue transmitting electricity Just like that until student says wrong who has to jump the stork around the class At the end of the game: The announcement you make the best times and awards (sometimes just applause) Students participate in playing power transmission games – Source by Bui Thi Thuy Game 4: Jumping, stopping by the music Purpose: Forging skills and listening to students Preparation: Speaker and about 10-20 seats are arranged in the field or dentist How to play: Students can participate in 10-20 people When students listen to the familliar music which teacher plays, they will be danced around the chairs in a circle ( before each time playing music, the teacher will take a way skkn 13 one chair, equivalent to one student without a seat) When music is stopped sit in their seat quickly, Who don’t have a chair that will be eliminated The game is continued until there is only one student and that student will be the winner At the end of the game: Give winner students a small reward Students participate in playing jumping games, stopping with music – Source by Bui Thi Thuy By organizing the game I noticed that learning games as diverse students activities, helping students train, strengthen knowledge, and develop skills, promotesthe positive development of wisdom, especially effective in improving the quality of teaching English b Organizing activities to sing, dance to English music tracks Learning English through songs has become popular all over the world and in Vietnam with effectively assessed as very positive Duringmy time teaching English in primary school, I noticed that psychology of this age, most of them enjoyed moving and singing This can be easily noticed in music secretions Therefore, organizing academic activities for students by singing and practicing jumping articles in English will help them love this subject My experience is for students to practice singing, dancing or dancing, modern jumping English songs by topic, the owner has content related to lessons in textbooks For example, after learning Unit 1: Hello (English 3-Episode 1), we can give students a “The alphabet song” post on the vibrant music background Or let students practice singing songs: “Hello How are you?” Purpose: Help students happily, excitedly and review the question and answer about health After Unit 9: What Colour Is It? (English 3- Episode 1), students practice singing songs: “Red and Yellow” Purpose: Help students to review vocabulary on a color theme skkn 14 After Unit 11: This Is My Family (English 3-Episode 2), teachers can ask students to practice singing: “Baby Shark” Purpose: Help students to review words only for family members Illustration of songs used to train students - Source by Bui Thi Thuy Through the implementation of singing and dancing to the music, I noticed that helped students engrave deeper vocabulary, sentences, and better reflexes with English activities On the other hand, it has created an extremely useful and interesting English learning environment, the actual learning efficiency has been raised c Oganzing reading books, newspapers, bilingual stories in English - Vietnamese in the library Through practical observation at school libraries and references from colleagues who are English teacher in the district, I noticed reading books, newspapers, English stories in the library are one of the simple forms of learning, easy to but it is extremely effective, helps to expand and strengthen the knowledge of students through the available resources outside the textbooks, in order to contribute to improving the quality of learning English skkn 15 Students of grade in a reading session in the library and outside the school yard - Source by Bui Thi Thuy My Tan Primary School has school sites but there has been a library at both major site and odd site with a total area of up to 120 m2, with a system of facilities to ensure, currently the library has been recognized as library advanced I performed as follows: Divide the student reading into groups and pairs to discuss the story content as well as comments on the characters in the story Encourage them to express their feelings about the work, comics according to each topic suitable for each lesson in many different ways such as reading and writing exams, telling the stories, etc Some bilingual comics in My Tan Primary School Library Source by Bui Thi Thuy d Organizing learning English through art and craft activities Reference from colleagues in and out of the district and self-research, exploring, I boldly the following: Guide students to draw images according to lesson themes such as types of toys, pets, school supplies, colors, family members, etc In each of the pictures, they wrote the English vocabulary on the side I can also divide students into groups, pairs to draw paintings, make cards, or creates posters, and label their products with English words or phrases below Photos of the funny drawing of students in 3D – Source by Bui Thi Thuy Through the experimental submission, I noticed: Foreign language skkn 16 access through art and manual activities under the guidance of teachers helps children with comfortable classes, confidently communicate, learn vocabulary easier, focus more, and especially promote children's imagination and creativity They enthusiastically participate in the lesson because they are satisfying creativity and what they like Instead of hearing teachers lecturing, or sitting passively according to textbooks, they will be eager with their products to create at the same time want to learn and communicate learning to All activities use English so they will motivate this foreign language 2.4 The effectiveness of the experienced initiativeon educational activities, on myself, colleagues and the school Through the experimental time the above measures I found that most students were more active, and more interested in English They are no longer afraid of this lesson as before Many students have boldly, and confidently communicate in English with friends and teachers very naturally, promoting their language ability The quality of teaching and learning English has made positive progress The results of the quality survey in learning English for students - grade at My Tan primary school between the second semester of the school year 2021-2022 are as follows: No Class Total Completed well Completed Uncompleted 3A 27 14 13 3B 24 11 13 3C 38 19 19 3D 35 18 17 In February 2021, after months since the first time I Love English Club of My Tan primary school, the first exchanges, Ngoc Khe Primary School and then Ngoc Lac Town Primary School also successfully organized the friendly meeting of English Clubs The school year 2020 - 2021 is considered the first year of the education industry of Ngoc Lac district to organize the English club exchange periods These initial successes of a small part unit are also with drawn from the club exchanges of My Tan Primary School This is not a specific achievement nor a formally recorded result, etc , but it has given me a small joy and a greater motivation to continue the teaching path what I selected CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS skkn 17 3.1 Conclusions To meet the urgent requirements of education quality to meet the goals of the 2020-2025 foreign language project, teachers need to be creative, and boldly innovate their educational methods Over the years of teaching English, I realize that teaching and learning are difficult to successfully achieve if we only make merely class classes, in textbooks And with the following measures, I have helped to improve somewhat about the quality of teaching and learning English in grades at My Tan Primary School Students study English actively, boldly confidently, absorb the lessons better, and have made progress in the subject Tomorrow, the generations of student systems continue to leave the school roof to study higher levels and work to build their homeland, the country, in the luggage of children carrying throughout their lives to have a lot of capital foreign language knowledge I and my colleagues are thick to fill up from today Although there are still some students with high school results because this job needs a long-term and continuous process, I will try to every measure after this school year of teaching and learning English in grade as well as other blocks in My Tan Primary School is even better 3.2 Recommendations * Tothe Department of Education Interested in creating further conditions for the school’s teaching and learning work Advising the leadership levels to build a classroom exclusively for English Increase the primary English teacher payroll to increase the duration of teaching in English to periods/weeks Every year, English exchanges should be organized among schools in the professional cluster and between schools in the district so that students have the opportunity to exchange learning about knowledge as well as practical experience in the subject * To the school Organizing more extracurricular activities and English exchanges for students The organization for English teachers is visiting, learning experiences, and cultivating language skills in places with an English communication environment or where the movement teaches and learns English well Funding for necessary teaching materials to serve English Add books and bilingual stories English - Vietnamese in the library * To students’ parents skkn 18 Provide students the requires of tools, utensils, books for children to study Create conditions for children to fully participate in extracurricular activities and English club classes at school Collaborate with the teacher of education to remind, accompany students to study at home or can buy and register to intall software that supports online English learning for their children very effectively In the process of research and experimental initiatives despite the initial results, it certainly cannot avoid limitations and shortcomings I would like to receive the suggestions of the leadership and colleagues for my experience to improve and be widely applied and more effective in the coming time All comments should be sent to Bui Thi Thuy - English Teacher at My Tan Primary School, My Tan Commune, Ngoc Lac District, Thanh Hoa Province Phone: 0814 556 858; Email: buithuy2985@gmail.com I sincerely thank you! My Tan, April 16th 2022 I swear to write this initiative experience by myself, not copy the content of other people CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCIPAL WRITER Le Trong Tho Bui Thi Thuy skkn