An evaluation of the effectiveness of the materials on english for tour guides for the 3rd year students of foreign languages and tourism department at sao do industrial college and suggestions for adaptation

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGO THI MY BINH AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MATERIALS ON ENGLISH FOR TOUR GUIDES FOR THE RD YEAR STUDENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND TOURISM DEPARTMENT AT SAO DO INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADAPTATION Đánh giá hiệu giáo trình Tiếng Anh chuyên ngành H-ớng dẫn Du lịch cho sinh viên năm thứ khoa Du Lịch Ngoại ngữ tr-ờng Cao đẳng Công nghiệp Sao Đỏ gợi ý cho việc hiệu chỉnh M.A Minor Thesis Field: English teaching methodology Code: 60 14 10 Hai Duong 2010 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGO THI MY BINH AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MATERIALS ON ENGLISH FOR TOUR GUIDES FOR THE RD YEAR STUDENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND TOURISM DEPARTMENT AT SAO DO INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADAPTATION Đánh giá hiệu giáo trình Tiếng Anh chuyên ngành H-ớng dẫn Du lịch cho sinh viên năm thứ khoa Du Lịch Ngoại ngữ tr-ờng Cao đẳng Công nghiệp Sao Đỏ gợi ý cho việc hiệu chỉnh M.A Minor Thesis Field: English teaching methodology Code: 60 14 10 Supervisor: MA Nguyen Thi Thom Thom Hai Duong 2010 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Candidates statement Page i Table of contents ii Acknowledgements iv List of figures, tables and charts v List of abbreviation vi Abstract vii PART A: INTRODUCTION I Rationale and aims of the study II Scope of the study III Methods of the study IV Research questions V Statement of the problem VI Design of the study PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Teaching Materials in Language Teaching and Learning 5 1.1.1 The Roles of Teaching Materials 1.1.2 Types of Materials 1.2 Materials Evaluation 1.2.1 Reasons for Materials Evaluation 1.2.2 Definitions of Materials Evaluation 1.2.3 Types of Materials Evaluation 1.2.4 Materials Evaluators 1.2.5 Sources of the Data 10 1.2.6 Models for Materials Evaluation 11 1.2.7 Criteria for Materials Evaluation 13 1.3 Previous Research on Materials Evaluation 15 1.4 Materials adaptation 16 1.4.1 Reason for adapting 16 1.4.2 Adapting techniques 16 1.5 Summary CHAPTER II: EVALUATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MATERIALS ENGLISH FOR TOUR GUIDES- PART IV 18 19 iii 2.1 Method of data collection and procedures 2.1.1 Survey questionnaires 19 19 2.1.1.1 Participants of the survey 19 2.1.1.2 Description of the survey questionnaires 20 2.1.2 Formal interview to teachers, students and class observations 20 2.2 Findings and Discussion 21 2.2.1 Teachers evaluation 21 2.2.1.1 The evaluation of the teachers in terms of audience, aims, content, methodology, and other criteria 21 2.2.1.2 The evaluation of the teachers in terms of speaking lessons 24 2.2.1.3 The suggestions of the teachers in terms of speaking lessons 24 2.2.2 Students evaluation 25 2.2.2.1 The suitability of the course to the audience 25 2.2.2.2 The suitability of the objectives course in terms of skills 27 2.2.2.3 The suitability of the courses content in terms of the speaking lessons 28 2.2.2.4 The suitability of the speaking lessons in terms of methodology 29 2.2.2.5 Students suggestion for the speaking lessons 30 2.3 Evaluation findings CHAPTER III: SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TEXTBOOKS ADAPTATION 3.1 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lessons 3.1.1 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lesson in Unit 2: Hai Duongs attractions 3.1.2 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lesson in Unit 3: Hanois attractions 3.1.3 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lesson in Unit 6: National parks in Vietnam 3.1.4 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lesson in Unit 8: Museums in Vietnam 3.1.5 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lesson in Unit 10: Ha Long Bay 3.2 Evaluation of the adaptation 31 34 34 34 35 37 38 39 40 PART C: CONCLUSION 41 REFERENCES 43 APPENDIX I APPENDIX IV APPENDIX VII APPENDIX VIII v LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Page Figures Figure The Materials Evaluation Model of Hutchinson and Waters (1993:98) 13 Figure Preparing a presentation 36 Page Tables Table 2.1 Students' results of learning tourism English in the previous term 25 Table 2.2 Students' attitudes towards an English for Tour guides course 26 Table 2.3 Students' expectations from an English for Tour guides course 26 Table 2.4 Students opinion on skills importance 27 Table 2.5 Students opinions on their skills need to improve in the course 27 Table 2.6 Students opinion on the suitability of the speaking lessons 28 Table 2.7 Students opinion on the methodologys suitability of the speaking 30 lessons Table 2.8 Students suggestion for the speaking lessons 30 vi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS SIC Sao Do Industrial College FLTD Foreign Languages and Tourism Department ETP English for Tourism Purpose EFT English for Tour guides ESP English for specific purposes ELT English language teaching PART A: INTRODUCTION I The rationale and aims of the study There are three reasons why I choose to carry out the research called An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Materials on English for Tour guides for the 3rd year students of Foreign Languages and Tourism Department at Sao Do Industrial College and suggestions for adaptation The first reason is in the importance of a material or a text book in the process of learning and teaching foreign languages ELT materials in general and textbooks in particular serve as tool and tutor, guidebook and gauge The American Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development asserted that teachers throughout the world use texts to guide their instruction, so textbooks greatly influence how content is delivered Schmidt, McKnight, and Raizen (1997) identified textbooks as playing an important role in making the leap from intensions and plans to classroom activities, by making content available, organizing it, and setting out learning tasks in a form designed to be appealing to students Therefore, they may be considered the visible heart of any ELT program Sheldon (1988:237) Especially in Vietnamese context, textbooks are regarded as a staple in almost every EFL class With the growth of computer-assisted language learning, the role of this material may be changing, but it is unlikely that it will ever disappear Therefore, it is necessary for teachers to be well-equipped with the assessment tools to evaluate materials to ensure that students are using the highest quality texts possible and that their language learning experience is enhanced, not hindered, by the book used in their classrooms However, there has been surprisingly little investigation done in terms of how and why materials are selected by teachers Moreover, most of them have not been adequately trained in the selection process and may be unaware of how to judge which texts best suit their situation That research gap has propelled me to choose materials evaluation as the theme for this master thesis The second reason for this option lies in the fact that in recent years there have emerged diverse opinions of both the learners and teachers on the actual effectiveness of the materials English for Tour guides- an in-house materials used in teaching ESP for the third year students at FLTD at SIC in Hai Duong Arguments have encompassed both the potentials and the limitations of the materials for guiding students through the learning process as well as the needs and preferences of the teachers and learners who are using it Other issues that have lately arisen include the textbook content, the methodology validity, the role of textbooks in innovation, the authenticity of materials in terms of their representation of language and the appropriateness of some speaking lessons It is essential, therefore, that we should establish and apply a wide variety of relevant and contextually appropriate criteria for the evaluation of the textbook to assess its appropriateness against the learning purposes The last but not least, being a teacher of foreign languages and having taught the course of English for Tour guides at SIC more than two years, I have found out that there are some problems with the materials of the course which are needed to be adapted With the hope of improving the quality and minus the limitation of the materials to benefit both the learners and teachers, I conduct this research to discuss and describe the evaluation process that is to be undertaken at the FLTD at SIC of the textbook English for Tour guides used in this particular learning environment and thus lead to further thought on improving the quality of the materials by suggestions for the textbooks adaptation especially in speaking lessons These are also the aims of the study II Scope of the study The study is about the evaluation of effectiveness of the in-house materials English for Tour guides - Part IV Tourism destinations in Vietnam Its curriculum consists of 120 periods for the third year Tour guide students of FLTD at SIC In the scope of this study, the evaluation of the effectiveness of the materials only focuses on evaluation of the suitability of the materials content and methodology to the courses requirement and students need It bases on the evaluation of teachers and students at the school From these, I give out suggestions for adaptation especially in speaking lessons to improve effectiveness and learning motivation for Tour guide students and better serve for teaching job this subject at SIC III Methods of the study To achieve the above aim, the study employs qualitative and quantitative research method The research methods employed were document analysis, survey questionnaire, informal interviews and class observation Of these methods, document analysis was one of the main instruments with a thorough objective analysis of the textbook under evaluation Survey questionnaire also plays an important role in the study According to James H Mc Millan & Sally Schumacher (1993) in survey research, the investigator selects a sample of subjects and administers a questionnaire or conducts interviews to collect data Surveys are used frequently in educational research to describe attitudes, beliefs, opinions and other types of information In this study, survey questionnaire was used to collect the data that relate to the teachers' and students' perspectives and attitudes towards the textbook they have just finished Informal interviews were employed to clarify information collected in the survey Lastly, class observation was used to get students responses to the speaking lessons after adaptation These are effective way of collecting data for this study The purposes of this evaluation research were to evaluate the effectiveness of the in-house materials English for Tour guides in terms of its objectives, content and methodology especially the content of the speaking lessons in the materials This summative evaluation was conducted right after the teachers and students have just finished the textbook to determine whether the material has worked well The researcher employed a method which was a combination of document analysis, survey questionnaires, informal interviews and class observation The researcher's belief was that a combination of different methods to collect data could provide more reliable and valid information for the evaluation IV Research questions The study is to find out the answers to the following research questions: How the materials English for Tour guides used at SIC meet the requirements of the course and meet the demands of students in terms of objectives, content, and methodology especially the content of the speaking lessons? What suggestions should be made to contribute to the improvement of the speaking lessons in the materials? To answer these research questions, the researchers employed the following evaluation procedures: The involvement of the researcher as the evaluator who analyzed the materials under evaluation by conducting survey questionnaires for teachers and students to get their opinions about the textbook they have used and carrying out informal interviews with teachers and students to clarify issues which are raised in the surveys The findings are expected to provide convincing evidences for the contribution to the improvement of the textbooks for future use V Statement of the problem SIC is a famous college in Hai Duong province located in Chi Linh District The school is 40 years of foundation It has more than 500 teachers and 15.000 students It is known all over country with electrical and mechanical field FLTD is a young one- only years old The number of students is only about 300 students The students related to this study are 80 students of the third year The program of English for Tourism consists of 300 periods, divided into different parts In the first Year, they learn knowledge related to hotels work In the second year they learnt about the tourists on holiday and common knowledge related to Vietnam Helping Students to become good tour guides in the future forms the basis of the 3rd year course, with students examining topics as tourism destinations in Vietnam from the North to the South and so on The program of part IV composes of main parts: Reading is to provide students with knowledge of famous tourism destinations in Vietnam; Speaking is to provide students with sentence forms, situations happening when dealing with foreign visitors and train students ability of making presentation on these destinations Listening part is to train students listening skill; writing part focuses on guiding and training students to write about topics related to tourism Language focus helps students to pronounce the words and intonation correctly and revise some important languages This course is a basic part providing necessary knowledge for tourism students and at the same time practice effectively skills listening, speaking, reading, writing, develop students communicative ability completely VI Design of the study The study consists of parts: Part I: Introduction composes of rationale and aims, scope, method of the study, research questions, statement of the problem and design of the study Part II: Main content consists of chapters: Chapter I: Literature review deals with Textbook, course book, and materials, Materials Evaluation, Materials adaptation; Chapter II: is about evaluation on the materials effectiveness and Chapter III: Suggestions for the materials adaptation Part III: Conclusion presents a review of the study, implication, limitation and the recommendations for the improvement of the materials 38 Content * National Parks in Vietnam: * Some famous national parks in Vietnam: Ba Be National park; Cuc Phuong National Park; Cat Tien National Park and so on The knowledge of these destinations should be taken from the Extension III in the syllabus under brief information Practice Task 1: Make a short presentation to introduce about National Parks in Vietnam, one of famous national parks in Vietnam Task 2: Base on the given knowledge to make a tour commentary on Cuc Phuong National Park The information about Cuc Phuong National Park should be taken from the Extension III in the textbook Therefore reordering technique should be used here 3.1.4 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lesson in Unit 8: Museums in Vietnam This materials is used for tour guide; therefore, it is necessary to practice speaking on describing the sight That is also the reason why I choose describing the sight as a situation in this speaking lesson I Situation: Describing the sight (Adding) II Topic: Museums in Vietnam (Simplifying and adding) Vocabulary & structures The syllabus should give out a list of vocabulary and structure related to museum Content: This lesson is about museums, it is useful to provide students with how to make a presentation on a museum especially main content when making presentation on a museum Some famous museums in Vietnam Some brief information about some famous museums in Vietnam such as Ho Chi Minh Museum, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, The Fine Arts Museum should be given Practice Task 1: Make short presentation on the above destinations 39 Task 2: Make a tour commentary on one of museum you like 3.1.5 Suggestions for the adaptation of speaking lesson in Unit 10: Ha Long Bay To get on well with foreign visitors successfully, the cultural knowledge is really necessary especially some knowledge related to small talks This will help student to break the iceberg in communication at the first time and then deal with foreign visitors better I Situations: Small talks after introduction (Adding) Avoid certain topics: Money; Age; Religion; Politics; Physical appearance and certain information about marriage Using common topics: Job, work; School; Weekend and vacation activities; Family; Weather II Topic: Ha Long Bay (Adding & Simplifying) Vocabulary & structures Words and phrases to describe a destination Words and phrases to describe the beauty of a destination Content The information about Quang Ninh Province; Ha Long City; Ha Long Bay- A World natural Heritage should be added to give students common knowledge on Ha Long Bay Practice Task 1: Make short presentation on the above destinations Task 2: Make presentation based on video clip about Ha Long Bay The purpose of this task is to help students to get similar to making tour commentary in reality about Ha Long Bay in particular and other destinations in general Certainly, all students have time to prepare well for the presentation In summary, this part has presented some suggestions for the adaptations of the course especially in speaking lessons of units: Unit 2: Hai Duongs attractions, Unit 3: Hanois attractions, Unit 6: National parks in Vietnam, Unit 8: Museums in Vietnam and Unit 10: Ha Long Bay The writer applied all the adapting techniques and made use of her knowledge and experiences in the process of making adaptation the material She hopes 40 that it will be useful for her students The implication lays behind the study that evaluation is really necessary in language teaching and therefore, should be regularly implemented This is also the main content of the next part in this chapter 3.2 Evaluation of the speaking lessons adaptation With the hope of making the adaptation part more reliable and perfect, the writer continues to evaluate the suitability of the five adapted speaking lessons by conducting a class observation sheet for teachers and students in the scope of these lessons The evaluation criteria of Hutchinson & Water are still applied in this case In the class observation sheet, teachers and students are required to give out their opinions on the suitability of adapted speaking lessons in terms of the audience, aims, content and methodology The result of the class observation sheet is quite optimistic All the teachers and students said that they paid much attention to the adapted ones Concerning the audience and the aims, these lessons are suitable because they can meet the demand of students who are really interested in learning speaking tourism English The content part was added many useful information about situations and topics about famous destinations in Vietnam, which can solve the main problems of the old one The methodology used in these lessons was evaluated suitable and effective Students have many chances to practice speaking with various and interesting types of activities and modern teaching aids They were excited when learning these lessons However, the content of the lessons are too long They require students quite a lot of time to prepare in advance to have a useful and effective speaking lesson This will be ok if students have time for preparation Moreover, there is a shortage of illustration for the destinations which made the lesson less interesting In general, the adaptation of speaking lesson has met the demand of the students and the aim of the course The result of the study, indeed, brings effectiveness for teaching and learning the materials 41 PART C: CONCLUSION Review of the study Evaluating teaching materials is obviously a very important process in language learning The results from materials evaluation help to determine whether the set of materials is suited for a particular situation Most often materials evaluation is carried out to find out the strengths and weaknesses of the materials so that changes need to be made to improve the suitability and enhance the effectiveness of the materials This is also the reasons for carrying out this evaluation research The ultimate target of the study is to find out how the current textbook used for the 3rd year students at Foreign Languages and Tourism Department at SIC meet the demand of the students in terms of the objective, methodology, content and especially the content of speaking lessons Besides document analysis, teachers and students opinions were gathered by two sets of survey questionnaires and informal interviews were also employed The analysis of the data collected actually addressed the issues investigated to find out the answer for the research questions The findings of this study show that this in-house textbook for the 3rd year students could meet some of the course requirements and suitable to the students level of English in terms of objectives, methodology and content However, the textbook has some problems with the content of speaking lessons Particularly, the content of these lessons are not suitable because they lack of knowledge related to the destinations, lack of language competence used to practice speaking situations about these destinations Moreover, the types of exercise are not various; the illustration for speaking lessons on destinations is not interesting From the results of this study, some possible suggestions to improve the textbook are proposed In order to enhance the effectiveness of this textbook, the aspects of content of speaking lessons need to be adjusted are exposed through providing more brief knowledge about the destinations to help students have basic and necessary knowledge on the destinations Besides, the types of exercise are made more various focusing on training students speaking ability on these destinations The illustration is made more interesting to motivate students interest The two research questions in the study were answered completely 42 Application of the study It is believed that the findings of this research help to make a valuable contribution to the development of the in-house text-book to totally meet the objective of the materials and at the same time satisfy students need and interest at SIC This is also a good reference material for teachers in the school in particular and teachers interested in English for tourism in general Limitation of the study Like other research thesis, this study also has some limitations First, there was a limitation regarding the data collection of the study: because of the time constraint, and the condition of the 3rd year students at SIC, the survey questionnaires were administered to a small sample Second, the system of English for Tour guide consists of textbooks: English for Tour guide part I, II, III, and part IV, within the scope of the current study, the author finds it difficult to evaluate the three first set of textbooks Recommendation for further study From what have obtained in the study, the evaluation on effectiveness of the materials and suggestions for adaptation, the further research may be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of using this adapted material From the limitation of the study, the recommendation for further research is about the evaluation and adaptation on the set of in-house textbook English for Tour guide part I, II and part III which can meet the demand of the students and suitable with the learning and teaching context at SIC Finally, the study has been completed to the best of my knowledge; however, mistakes and shortcomings are unavoidable Therefore, I am looking forward to receiving comments and suggestions from any readers for the perfection of the course work 43 REFERENCES Breen, M., & Candlin, C N (1987) ELT Textbooks and Materials: Problems in Evaluation and Development ELT Document London, Modern English Publications Brown, J.D (1989) Language Program Evaluation Canbridge: CUP Cunningsworth, A (1984) Evaluating and Selecting EEL Teaching Materials Heinemann Educational Books Dudley - Evans, T., & St John, M J (1998) Developments in English for Specific Purposes Cambridge University Press Freeman, L.D (1986) Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching Oxford: Oxford University Press Gillham, B (2000) Developing a Questionnaire Continuum Hutchinson, T., & Water, A 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(1993) Materials And Methods In ELT A Teacher's Guide Black well 27 Robinson, P.C (1991) ESP Today: A practitioner's Guide Prentice Hall I APPENDIX QUESTIONAIRE FOR TEACHERS Dear my colleagues, This questionnaire was built up to evaluate the material English for Tour guides In the questionnaire, your attitudes toward whether the objectives, the content, and especially, the methodology of the material are appropriate for the course and also for your students level and their communicative needs are expected to be found out Your ideas are very important and useful, making a great contribution to my study Thank you in advance for your cooperation! Please answer the following questions or tick () in the box where necessary I Personal information Your gender Male Female Your age How long have you been teaching English? year(s) How long have you been teaching English for Tourism? year(s) III Your opinions on the textbooks What you think of the suitability of the materials English for tour guides- Part IV based on these following criteria Evaluation criteria Very Suitable Normal Not Not suitable very suitable suitable Audience Aims Content Methodology Other criteria What you think of the suitability of the content of the materials? Evaluation criteria to content Language points Skill Text- type Subject- matter (Topic) Content organization thought the course Content organization within the course unit Very Suitable Normal suitable Not very suitable Not suitable II Evaluation criteria to content Content sequence throughout the course Content sequence within a unit Very Suitable Normal suitable Not very suitable Not suitable Of skills in the textbook which one is necessary to improve? Listening Reading Speaking Writing What you think about the speaking lesson in the textbook? Evaluation criteria to speaking lesson Very Bad O.K bad Content Good Very good Topics Exercise kinds Illustration (pictures, enclosed tape, video) Order of lessons Other ideas (specify) : What you think of the suitability of the speaking part in each unit? Speaking lesson Unit 1: Travelling around Vietnam Unit 2: Haiduongs attractions Unit 3: Hanois Attractions Unit 4: Traditional handicraft villages Unit 5: Historical places in Vietnam Unit 6: National Parks in Vietnam Unit 7: Celebrations in Vietnam Unit 8: Museums in Vietnam Unit 9: Sa pa Unit 10: Ha Long Bay Not very suitable Very Suitable Normal suitable Not suitable III Unit 11: Phong Nha Cave Unit 12: Hue Citadel Unit 13: Hoi An Unit 14: Nha Trang Unit 15: Da Lat Unit 16: Ho Chi Minh City What should we to improve the speaking lessons? Provide more knowledge of Tourism destinations in Vietnam Add vocabulary, structures related to the speaking topic Providing cultural knowledge suitable with the speaking topic Add grammatical items to express the topic effectively Add some more kinds of exercises Illustrate the topics with more beautiful pictures Other ideas (specify): Thank you very much for your cooperation! APPENDIX PHIU KHO ST SINH VIấN IV i tng: Sinh viờn nm th chuyờn ngnh Hng dn du lch, khoa Du lch ngoi ng, trng Cao ng Cụng nghip Sao Mc ớch: ỏnh giỏ giỏo trỡnh ting Anh chuyờn ngnh Hng dn du lch - hc phn IV- Cỏc a danh du lch Vit Nam dnh cho sinh viờn nm th chuyờn ngnh Hng dn du lch, khoa Du lch ngoi ng, trng Cao ng Cụng nghip Sao chỳng tụi cn tỡm hiu ý kin ỏnh giỏ, nguyn vng v nhu cu ca cỏc bn hc giỏo trỡnh ny Nhng thụng tin chỳng tụi nhn c rt cn thit v quan trng giỳp chỳng tụi ỏnh giỏ giỏo trỡnh, tỡm nhng im cha tht phự hp cú nhng hiu chnh hp lý v giỳp cho vic ng dng dy hc cú hiu qu v phự hp vi iu kin dy v hc ting Anh du lch ti trng ta hin Bn hóy vui long tr li y v chớnh xỏc cỏc cõu hi hoc ỏnh du vo cỏc ụ bn chn Xin chõn thnh cm n! Kt qu ỏnh giỏ vic hc ting anh du lch hc phn ti trng Cao ng Cụng Nghip Sao ca bn nh th no? Gii Trung bỡnh Khỏ Di trung bỡnh Bn ỏnh giỏ tm quan trng ca mt khoỏ hc ting Anh chuyờn ngnh hng dn du lch hc phn IV- Cỏc a danh du lch Vit Nam nh th no? Rt quan trng Khụng quan trng lm Quan trng Khụng quan trng Bn mong i gỡ t khoỏ hc ting Anh chuyờn ngnh hng dn du lch phn 4: Cỏc a danh du lch Vit Nam? Cng c v nõng cao ng phỏp ting Anh Cú th giao tip bng ting Anh cỏc tỡnh du lch c th Phỏt trin k nng c hiu Cú th vit mt s loi bn liờn quan ti lnh vc du lch M rng t ting Anh v cỏc a danh du lch Cú th dch cỏc bi khoỏ sang ting Vit Cú th thuyt trỡnh v cỏc tuyn im du lch ni ting Vit Nam Rốn luyn phỏt õm v ng iu Trong k nng, k nng no l quan trng nht, c s dng nhiu nht i vi V bn trng : Listening skill Speaking skill Reading skill Writing skill Sau hc xong hc phn ny, cỏc k nng sau õy, bn nhn thy cú tin b cỏc k nng no? Listening Reading Speaking Writing Sau hc xong hc phn ny, k nng no cn lm b sung thờm? Listening Reading Speaking Writing Bn hóy ỏnh giỏ v s phự hp cu cỏc bi núi ó hc Rt Bi hc phự hp Phự Bỡnh hp thng Cha phự Khụng hp lm phự hp Unit 2: Haiduongs attractions Unit 3: Hanois Attractions Unit 4: Traditional handicraft Unit 7: Celebrations in Vietnam Unit 8: Museums in Vietnam Unit 9: Sa pa Unit 1: Travelling around Vietnam villages Unit 5: Historical places in Vietnam Unit 6: National Parks in Vietnam VI Rt Bi hc phự hp Phự Bỡnh hp thng Cha phự Khụng hp lm phự hp Unit 10: Ha Long Bay Unit 11: Phong Nha Cave Unit 12: Hue Citadel Unit 13: Hoi An Unit 14: Nha Trang Unit 15: Da Lat Unit 16: Ho Chi Minh City Bn hóy ỏnh giỏ v s phự hp cu phng phỏp cỏc bi núi ó hc Rt Phng phỏp phự hp Phự Bỡnh hp thng Cha Khụng phự hp phự lm hp Kinds of exercise/ tasks Teaching learning techniques hp Teaching aids Flexibility of the materials Support for teaching the Theo bn gi hc núi hiu qu giỏo trỡnh cn b sung nhng gỡ : course Kin thc v cỏc a danh du lch Kin thc v hoỏ Vn t vng v cỏc a danh du lch Vit Nam Cu trỳc ng phỏp Cỏc ý kin khỏc: Chõn thnh cm n! APPENDIX QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEW Bn ngh gỡ v tm quan trng ca giỏo trỡnh ting anh chuyờn ngnh du lch hc phn IV - Cỏc a danh du lch Vit nam? Bn nhn xột gỡ v giỏo trỡnh ting Anh dó hc? Mong mun ca bn hc giỏo trỡnh nay? VII Trong k nng v giao tip: nghe, núi, c vit, theo bn k nng no cú nh hng ln nht ti ngh nghip ca bn tng lai? i vi k nng nghe, núi, c, vit c trỡnh by giỏo trỡnh bn thy k nng no cn b sung thờm? 6.Gi hc núi ting anh ca bn nh th no? Sụi ni, thoi mỏi hay cng thng? Bn mong mun gỡ t mt gi hc núi ting Anh v v giỏo viờn ? Bn ỏnh giỏ nh th no v kh nng núi ting Anh ca mỡnh sau hc xong giỏo trỡnh? Kin thc v cỏc hot ng a giỏo trỡnh cú giỳp rốn luyn hiu qu kh nng núi ting Anh ca bn hay khụng? Theo ban, cn b sung thờm nhng gỡ v kin thc gi hc núi ting Anh hiu qu hn? 10 Bạn thích giáo viên thực hoạt động lớp học? (Giải thích từ mới, tổ chức hoạt động nhóm, sử dụng phương tiện dạy học ) 11 Điều gây hứng thú gây cản trở cho bạn học nói tiếng Anh? 12 Trong số bi hc noi học giáo trình, bạn thích bi nào, không thích bi nào? Tại sao? 13 Bạn đánh giá hoạt động nhóm t mt gi hc núi ting Anh lớp nào? 14 Các hoạt động ngoại khoá nh- thăm quan, thực hành điểm du lịch địa bàn lân cận có tác dụng việc nâng cao kỹ nói tiếng Anh bạn hay không? 15 Theo bạn, đề nâng cao khả nói Tiếng Anh sinh viên, giáo viên nên làm gì? Chõn thnh cm n! OBSERVATION SHEET Evaluation on the suitability of adapted speaking lessons Date: Period: Room: Mentors name: Mentees name: Audience Aims Content Are students interested in the adapted speaking lessons? Yes No Which speaking lessons are suitable with the audience? Unit Unit Are the speaking lessons suitable with the aims of the course? Yes No Do students have chance to practice speaking about famous places in Vietnam effective? Yes No Can student make good presentation on the tourism places? Yes No Are adapted speaking lessons solved problems of the old one? Yes No Which adapted speaking lessons are unsuitable? Unit Unit Which speaking activities are employed? Individuals Pairs How effectively are teaching aids employed? Very effective Effective Are kinds of exercise/ tasks various and useful? Yes No Is the speaking lesson flexible? Yes No How is supporting for teaching the course effective? Very effective Effective Not very effective Which adapted speaking lessons are suitable? Unit Unit Methodology Other comments Unit Unit Unit Unit 10 Unit Unit Unit 10 Groups Whole class Not very effective Unit Unit 10 [...]... process of learning and teaching of language And this decision can be achieved only by the means of a comprehensive evaluation The next part of this chapter is the review of reasons for materials evaluation, definitions, types of materials evaluation, materials evaluators, source of the data, models for materials evaluation and criteria for materials evaluation 1.2.1 Reasons for Materials Evaluation There... put on those is the information of the Tourism English teachers and the third year students' ideas and expectations on the materials English for Tour guides , their opinions on the materials effectiveness so that reasonable adaptation for the materials can be conducted Questionnaire 1 (for the students) aims at getting to know the students' English background, their own opinion on the English for Tour. .. materials, the writer of this thesis recognized the advantages and disadvantages of this one and took part in the process of evaluation and adaptation this materials The teaching staff held a meeting with the participation of all the teachers who taught the materials English for Tour guides Part IV- Tourism destinations in Vietnam and discussed on the evaluation and adaptation of this materials And the. .. part, the study will analyze the evaluation of the teachers and students basing on the results of the survey questionnaires and interview 2.2.1 Teacher’s evaluation on the effectiveness of the materials In the case of the teachers, there are 17 teachers of English in the Foreign Languages & Tourism Department at Sao Do Industrial College Four of them taught the materials English for Tour guides Most of. .. evaluation involves the determination of what needs to be evaluated, the objectives and requirements for the materials, and the judgments of the value of the materials being evaluated in relation to the objectives and requirements determined 1.2.3 Types of Materials Evaluation There are three types of evaluation according to the reasons for materials evaluation: preliminary evaluation, formative evaluation. .. questionnaires and interview The evaluation of the materials will be based on the evaluation model and criteria of Hutchinson and Waters And the main purpose of this chapter is to find out the answer for the first research question whether the material English for Tour guides used at SIC meet the requirements of the course and meet the demands of students in terms of objectives, content, and methodology... overall evaluation: - External evaluation (Macro -Evaluation) is the examination of the claims made for the whole materials by the author or publisher They can be in the forms of claims made on the cover of the book, the instructions, and the table of content The evaluation at this stage helps to identify whether the material is potentially appropriate; if the external evaluation shows that the materials. .. to the purposes of the evaluation and the situation in which the evaluation takes place After studying all the above issues carefully, the writer decided to choose the evaluation model and evaluation criteria of Hutchinson and Waters which are considered to be the most suitable one for the context of the study The evaluation of the effectiveness of the material will be carried out basing on the analysis... definitions of materials evaluation, who carries out materials evaluation, who provides data for materials evaluation, models for evaluation, and criteria for evaluation The third part discusses some of the previous research on materials evaluation in different contexts that the author referred This chapter also includes some theoretical discussions about materials adaptation to help forming the recommendations... to show the attitudes and the expectations of the teachers and third year students in Sao Do Industrial College towards the effectiveness of the materials English for Tour guides part IV- Tourism destinations in Vietnam The first section in the chapter reveals the method of data collection and procedures The second deals with the finding and discussion of the data collections, primarily with the survey ... information of the Tourism English teachers and the third year students' ideas and expectations on the materials English for Tour guides, their opinions on the materials effectiveness so that... for materials evaluation, definitions, types of materials evaluation, materials evaluators, source of the data, models for materials evaluation and criteria for materials evaluation 1.2.1 Reasons... in-house materials English for Tour guides used for the third years students at Foreign Languages and Tourism Department at SIC 1.4 Materials Adaptation 1.4.1 Reasons for Adapting Once the materials