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Therefore, I have applied a variety of encouraging activities to my lectures such as: role play, interview, dialogues NONG CONG EDUCATION &TRANNING DEPARTMENT TRAN PHU SECONDARY SCHOOL

I INTRODUCTION I.1 Reasons for choosing the study

To any language learners, speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication For English teaching, the question of how to increase communicative competence was and tends to be the most crucial one

It is common to see in Vietnam that there has been a general situation that many students mastering the fine points of English grammar but find themselves at loss when it comes to actually having a conversation with native speakers In other word, like many other Vietnam students, my students don’t have a head for speaking English

Having worked as a teacher for over 20 years, I have been trying hard to find out as many teaching methods as possible to improve my student’s English speaking competence In reality, the only way to develop fluency in speaking is

by a huge amount of listening and then practising Our students need more oral practice so that they can be more confident to speak Therefore, it is necessary that oral tasks be carefully prepared

The key to encourage speaking skill in the classroom is creating the proper environment Children should feel relaxed, and social interaction with peers should be encouraged I completely agree that developing speaking skill for students can be done not only in speaking lesson but also in reading, listening, writing or even in language lessons In my experience, In each lesson is the position where we can innovate useful activities for summarising the whole topic and developing speaking skill as well

With a view to increasing students’ talk time and enhancing their speaking competence fluently, naturally and accurately, I have studied for years to find out the most suitable teaching methods Especially, designing the post - stages in the lessons plays an integral role in the success of the whole lesson Therefore, I have applied a variety of encouraging activities to my lectures such as: role play, interview, dialogues

NONG CONG EDUCATION &TRANNING DEPARTMENT

TRAN PHU SECONDARY SCHOOL

INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE Some English speaking skill development

solutions in each lessson for students in grade 6

Ful name: LE THI LOI

Job: Teacher Department: Social

Having applied for years successfully, I decided to choose the topic:

"Some English speaking skill development solutions in each lessson for students in grade 6"

From the study, I show some exciting and useful activities of teaching speaking skill in each lesson from unit 1 to unit 12 of grade 6 Of course, this study can’t be perfect in limited time Therefore, I hope that the colleagues’ contribution will make it more perfectly

I 2 Purposes of the study

The study is aimed to serve some main objectives as following lists:

- To give out a brief overview created by designing encouraging activities to improve oral practice effectively

- To discuss the best way to teach speaking skill

- To enhance students’ speaking competence fluently, naturally and accurately

- To give some lecture samples to teach speaking skill

I 3 Scope of the study

- Students in class 6A of Tran phu secondary school, Nong Cong district, Thanh Hoa province

- Some English speaking skill development solutions for students

in class 6A

I 4 Method of the study

- Methods of survey and experiment

- Methods of investigation

- Control method

- Observation method

- Methods of collecting information and statistics

- Conversation method

- Methods of summarizing experience

II CONTENT II.1 Theoretical background

1.Definition of speaking

Language is a tool for communication We communicate with others, to express our ideas, and to know others’ ideas as well Communication takes place, where there is speech Without speech we cannot communicate with one another The importance of speaking skills, hence is enormous for the learners of any language Without speech, a language is reduced to a mere script The use of language is an activity which takes place within the confines of our community

We use language in a variety of situations

2 Difficulties in teaching speaking skill

Personally, I was assigned to teach subjects in English 6, I have encountered many difficulties during 4- skills- teaching students, particularly, in the teaching speaking skill for pupils, Most of Students at Tran Phu Secondary School where I directly teach are studious and obedient Most of them are aware of the importance of learning English

The media help them learn and practice English They can attend a lot of extra English classes, clubs, using tape and discs, newspapers, magazines, etc… to study English as an important subject at school In addition, language groups we support the interest of the Department of education and training as well as school administrators But besides these advantages, I and my colleagues also encountered difficulties in speaking lesson for them as follows: Not only the students but also the teachers cope with numerous problems when teaching speaking

The first difficulty I and my colleages are coping with the low English level of the students Our students often lack vocabulary and word choice The students’ low motivation and

low background knowledge are also other problems encountered

by the teachers

The second difficulty is the problem of large and multilevel classes In multilevel classes, we face difficulties in shortening a big gap between our students In the same class, some students who are good at English are active while many students are de-motivated.Hence, it is a difficult for the teachers to give each of the students individual attention and make sure who is on task and who is off task Besides, students are afraid to speak English in school for many reasons such as: shy psychology , hesitant, afraid to laugh when they themselves tell something wrong or crowded classrooms, teachers have less time to train speaking skill for each student

To overcome these difficulties during the past year, I myself have been constantly researching, regular professional exchanges with colleagues to unify the redesigned the speaking lesson accordingly with the level of 6th grade students Because of this reason, I write this study to share my experience to contribute small raise teaching quality of English 6

II.2.Situation of the problem before applying the study

II.2.1.The states of teaching and studying English at Secondary School.

Currently, teaching and learning foreign language has many innovations, however, It hasn't satisfied the innovative requirements which are proposed It leads to low effect and quality The vast majority of teachers still use traditional methods to interpret the theory In the process of teaching teachers use Vietnamese language, they haven't mastered how (technical) process of teaching language in view of communication They don't know how to design necessary work to encourage and stimulate the initiative of the students involved in solving tasks and exercise skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing So learning atmosphere in class is lifeless and sad It makes students afraid to learn and exchange

Teaching has not shown teachers'role in organizing the guidance and active role

of student in activities In the process of teaching the teachers mainly speak and

write in Vietnamese so the students limit thinking abilities and creative thinking

No help students "communication" Operates mainly in the classroom is the teacher; meaning is that the teachers explain and talk too much , students sit passively to listen and take notes, no feedback or no participation of communication (talking) with teachers and friends Teaching activities take place one only way - completely passive students, do not have the opportunity to practice communication in the classroom; creative ability and specially speaking skill of the students are more limited

Students apply what they have learned inside the classroom to practical language communication is difficult They can not manipulate the form of language (speech samples) are practiced in class in a natural way although students have ability to understand, remember and imitate (speaking) on the spot

in the classroom but they are also very quick to forget and feel is "off" when experiencing similar situations in real communication; They do not express what

to say after a long period of study

II.2.2 Result and effect of state.

By examining the quality of the academic year 2022 - 2023 in grade 6 with

learning result as follow

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From this state, the position is a direct teacher who teaches English, I always wondered, agonizing to find out appropriate teaching methods for students, to inspire them every when they learn a foreign language So in every lesson I always give them confidence, boldly and psychological comfort to like to communicate English with the teacher and beside that in every lesson I always

create communicate situations in English based on lesson content they can practice to develop their language skills I have applied the following solutions

II.3 Solutions are used to solve the problem

II.3.1 Generate interest in learning for students

II.3.1.1 Make students like subject

Since the students have access to subject, teachers should help students identify the aim of learning language , the main aim is to help student to have motivation about subjects right from the start of school

Example:

First, When the teachers come into the classrom, They can ask students questions like: "Do you want to travel around the world?", "Do you want to work

in a developing country ? "

Next, the teachers can explain: In order to have that opportunity they have good foreign language, this will help them confidently in front of friends around the world, they can absorb the latest scientific achievements, they have the chance

to know more about the countries and people in many countries around the world

This will help students see the benefits and necessity of learning language That is the motivation for the students to hold their subject spellbound when they have interest in subject and they will learn more positively

II.3.1.2 Inspire in each leson

In order to get a successful teaching lesson , even in the first step of each lesson is " warm up ", teachers need to create a favorable learning atmosphere about both the psychology and the content for next teaching activities

These activities spend short time ( 5 - 7 minutes ) but they are extremely important So " warm up " should do what and how to be able to fulfill the purpose

Suggestions of preparation before entering new lesson

- Stabilizing classes, allowing students time to adjust to new lesson

- Creating a favorable environment for new lesson

- Creating excitement for a new lesson

- Helping students contact the leanred knowlegde with new lesson

- Preparing the knowledge required for new lessons

- Creating situations, the context for the introduction part

- Creating communicative needs, or creating a purpose for the next

communicative activities

- Depending on the purpose and characteristics of each lesson and the students, teachers can choose the activities or techniques of warm up to appropriate

Teachers can learn from experience and change the activities or techniques of warm up after teaching a class to be positive for higher performance

Some suggestions before entering the new lesson

Suggeston 1: GUESSING TOPIC

This is form of work to figure out the topic, the teachers can use many different techniques to help students correctly guessed the theme of the lesson:

*Hangman:

Teachers underline white lines on the board, each underline is equivalent to each letter in the word The teachers give hints for students to focus on the needed content

*Jumbledwords:

Teachers give students some jumbled words and suggest topic of the words

Students arranged in the right order and meaningful words

*Guessing topic:

Teachers divide students into small groups and give each group a list of words

or phrases that are related to topics for students to guess Students discuss in groups The first group guess correctly, they will win

*Guessing picture:

Teachers choose a painting with lesson content is relatively clear and suggest students painting what talk about From painting teachers lead the students in lessons

*Guessing words:

Teachers divide students into small group and then give each group a piece of paper which write suspended sentences and questions Teachers ask students to complete them in a word and then guess the key word is derived from the first letters of guessed word Groups predict and correct, they will be winners

Suggestion 2: FINDING INFORMATION

The form of this activity in order to stabilize students, focus attention and inspire for learning a new lesson

*Brainstorm:

This activity uses students to make center Teachers can use this technique to

introduce situations and establish lesson topic

Example: The content of lesson has topic about school Teachers can divide students into groups who list the words related to the school After a specified time, If groups find many words , They will win

*Lucky number:

Teachers write the numbers on the board, each number corresponds to a question which has two or three lucky numbers If The students choose lucky number, They will have point.They don't do their task The rest of each number corresponds to a question If they answered questions correctly they will get points If the answer is wrong the other groups will have the right to continue answering questions All the points are added and groups have many points They are the winners

*Chatting:

Teachers ask students some questions related to the lesson and the students

themselves are active to answer them and give their opinion which teachers get information from students and guide them into the lesson

This activity provides an opportunity for students to be introduced, talk about themselves, exchange ideas and talk with their teachers

Sugesstion 3 : REMIND KNOWLEDGE

The activities in this section are to create a favorable environment for the

students It not only helps student remember old knowledge but also get psychological comfort to new lessons

*Bingo:

Students have to remind from 10 to 15 words which they have learned and are related to new lessons Depending on the number of words related to the lesson topic , the teachers have the students choose a number of suitable words in a table with the corresponding number of cells Teachers read the words but not read them in turn Students mark the words in their table while listening to the teachers who read those words Students who have the continuity of horizontal, vertical or diagonal words.They will shout BINGO and win the game

II.3.1.3 Create comfortable psychology for students.

- Creating comfortable psychology for students to develop English speaking skills bring certain effect Therefore teachers need to avoid blame and fix errors while students are saying, stop the tease of their classmates when students say wrong The teachers always gives the students confidence and boldness to speak better and make the learning atmosphere become exciting The pupils start new lesson in an inspired way and create excitement for the children to help them emulate each other in studying and competition between individuals and groups, helps them concentrate on their work Intelligence of teachers in organization will help students boldly present their understandings or practicing the language content in an active way, they will feel boldly and confident in not only learning environment but also funny play

II.3.2 Create teaching and learning environments.

II.3.2.1 Create favorable environment for lesson

- Teaching foreign Language is to practice communicative competence in the forms of listening, speaking, reading and writing, Therefore , teachers need to have environment with diverse situations of life Teachers create communicative situations student must behave in foreign languages to suit each specific communication situations

- Learning language, students also have access to many countries and diffrent cultures The level of access to higher information is very good for teaching so this requires a lot of teaching equipments and more flexible forms of teaching

II.3.2.2 Prepare psychology and knowlegde for new lesson

a Developing learned knowledge of students by eliciting or brainstorming

b Combining known knowledge with new lesson

c.Creating contexts, situations or communicative needs for the next activities of lesson

II.3.2.3 Practise speaking skill in each lesson

As you know that, making students speak more English in the classroom is not only a matter of "forcing" them to speak This demands good preparation of proper material and implementation must be progressive and systematic which demands more teacher's workload

Many people argue that practise speaking is not so necessary as other parts However, from my point of view, it is an essential stage to design various activities for students to develop their speaking skill because after getting information, students find it easy to produce their language And it is important that teacher create the best environment and chance for students to practise speaking English naturally and effectively

Below are some of my effective activities to give students opportunities to improve their speaking skill:

1 Roleplay

Students dramatise the content of text, taking the roles of the characters in the store they have just studied The teacher organises the role - play by putting all the same roles together, eliciting and then letting them practise what they will say, then cross-grouping so that each new group has one of each of different characters

2 Recall the story

Students re-tell the story in the content of the text in their own words The teacher can help them by doing a mini drill first, usually using the same pictures