Some experiences of promoting the activeness in learning english for students in grade 8

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO THANH HĨA PHỊNG GD&ĐT THÀNH PHỐ THANH HÓA SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM SOME EXPERIENCES OF PROMOTING THE ACTIVENESS IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR STUDENTS IN GRADE Người thực hiện: Nguyễn Thị Tường Vân Chức vụ: Giáo viên Đơn vị công tác: Trường THCS Minh Khai SKKN thuộc lĩnh vực (mơn): Tiếng Anh THANH HĨA NĂM 2017 I BACKGROUND : The reason for choosing the topic: In the modern world, when the economy is going up, the exchange of cultural economic meeting between the countries is increasingly expanding, the communication of humans in various countries requires people must know how to use the common language besides their mother tongue In the common language of communication on the world, English is now being considered as the most common languag For years, there have been a lot of people interested in teaching and learning of English at schools as well as in life in our country As an English teacher in a secondary school, I thought about the way : How to teach English with quality and effectively? First of all, I always master the aims that the Ministry of Education proposed the English course in secondary schools is: to help students practice on the basis of four skills of listening - speaking - reading - writing abilities achieve reading English at secondary level, creating favorable conditions for learning and understanding of modern science and technology and cultural treasures of the rich world The innovation of textbooks and teaching methods is an objective requirement in order to help learners acquire knowledge system, more dynamic, more creative, intellectual development capacity at a higher level, requiring teachers must invest more research to help students get the basics Meanwhile, students in many subject areas unbalanced conditions and learning abilities , such as in rural and mountainous areas, they are not in a position to participate in the English course, not yet in a position to communicate with foreigners, media, reference books needed less To meet the above requirements , the tutors soon find appropriate solutions to overcome these difficulties and provides for effective teaching and learning of English Looking at the actual Minh Khai Secondary School students, beginning in their very modest, their English skills are limited, most of them not feel confident when learning English Teachers to teach, I have seen them in English or how, but want to this then requires students to actively take initiative in learning On that basis, with these thoughts, I applied some solutions and created learning atmosphere lively student in the English lessons Arriving at school with the concern , brought the hope that my experience will help passionate teachers in the practical application and more successful in teaching, so I’m trying to give " some experiences of promoting the activeness in learning English for students in grade 9" 2 Rationale : In order to promote active learning for students, first we must understand that a positive pedagogical phenomenon, expressed high exertion activity in many aspects of learning and it comes true positive learning substance is said to be positive perception, it is expressed: students wishing to acquire knowledge, skills and applied skills to communicate, inspire learning, from here you will learn self-discipline training, mobilization all cumulative experience ( vocabulary, grammar rules ) to imitate, reproduce, searching behavior and conduct innovative communication situations Students actively select and manipulate knowledge thought proper to take the necessary language behavior, consistent with the circumstances of communication, awareness and knowing reveal their understanding verbally article through language They know how to work in pairs, in groups, to cooperate with you when necessary in the course of language training at the request of the teacher Students who wish to contribute new information acquired from various sources, sometimes beyond Three lessons expression level learning is positive: Explore - Creative - Mimic From positive thinking towards creative thinking is the result of non-stop activities you and your students Should require teachers to find appropriate teaching methods, which are geared towards teaching how to learn , help people learn cognitive activities to promote positive, proactive, creative, make it enable learners to explore, discover, discovered knowledge against passive learning habits NQTW2 (VIIIth) stated: " Innovation powerful educational methods and training, overcoming a one-way path to indoctrinate, train sticky creative thinking of students Step by step application of advanced methods and modern methods in the teaching process, ensuring conditions and time study, self- study students Development of self-learning movement, self-training routine and widespread in the entire population " It was the encouragement of active teaching perspective, expressing thoughts of teaching and learning " learner - centered " To make this possible, the teacher should build collective self learning class From here you can see the importance of self-discipline in learning and feeling studious, efforts to emulate each other in learning The success of a lesson depends very much on students Reality matters: Perhaps none of us deny the importance of English for Vietnam in economic integration, political and cultural world, especially when the process of globalization is occurring at breakneck speed Good command of the English language will help us feel more confident in communication However, in every class I always see the bewildered eyes, strange, sad, bored to learn, this is a matter of concern as I have Being assigned to teach the ninth-form students, I always worry about the previous year when the forecast 8th grade now I found that the 9th graders learned very quietly, in the class there were only a few active students, others sitting rest, making classroom atmosphere very boring Through practical teaching, I found them quite level difference, in the first class, only the relatively older children or speech all remaining construction will not participate in the activities, some school student refuses to copy all, sometimes bored school children to sleep well in class II RESOLUTIONS: Here are some solutions that I have applied in the teaching process 9th grade English subject in the school year 2015 - 2016 and the first semester of the 2016-2017 school year at Minh Khai Secondary School A For the teacher : a Preparation : Teachers need to have invested a lot of effort and time to collect documents and images related to the topic, constantly up-date information to support lectures Before preparing a lesson, teachers have studied in post content , then add and expand their knowledge of content instructors need to prepare some teaching materials that teachers towards to develop post Today, with the advancement of science and technology , the visual media can increasingly modern applications to serve as teaching many pictures of beautiful colors, or other electronic means, information art as language learning tapes, video tapes, movies, lights, computers in addition, teachers can use other means to search the school, or family can to use in the teaching With the preparation of new teachers so they can make up all class as people suggest, catalysis, motivate, mentor, referee in activities to explore exciting, hotly contested by students b In the article ( Getting started ) In English 9, in all parts shown in the Getting started section The purpose of this section is to get students excited to be learning in all subject and also to review the practice of knowledge related to post or to teachers create the necessary communication needs necessary for the operation of the post Warm-ups ( Getting started ) typically accounts for a short period of time compared to the lesson, but extremely important Its aim is to prepare psychological knowledge to new lessons, arouse the available knowledge of students related the need for new lessons, inspire new lessons , creating a pleasant atmosphere between teachers and students Therefore, to this teachers need flexibility to use various tricks such as using pictures, real objects instead collected in the book to cause controversy attractive, ask the relevant knowledge Oldest to post, play some mini games to exploit the available knowledge of the students and lead to new post When doing this, teachers need to pay attention to the following points: It can be used both in English and Vietnamese, should provide an opportunity for students to ask the teacher or ask each other to inspire, promote active students Always interested in psychology of students’ age and interests of the student to make the appropriate procedure For example, to teach “gettting started” in Unit3 - English 9, I have photocopied zoom pictures in the book, and guided the students to play the game: Kim 's game ( What are they doing in each picture ? ) - By the way I get the attention , concentration and stimulate students need to communicate in English to the children You can look at the picture and think of activities in English , was quickly put out the question : - A woman is watering vegetable – Some boys are swimming – A girl is collecting eggs – Some women are cutting rice - A man is feeding his pig – A boys is flying a kite – Some boys are playing soccer c Introduction : ( Listen and read ) Teachers can introduce content related with the topic, can introduce vocabulary, grammar, or language functions through conversation Teachers should collaborate with paintings , visual aids to clarify the situation , the context of the conversation, through which clarify the meaning of new words or function, using the new structure Note enabling students to discover new information through the elicitation procedure to help students understand the lesson better When introducing new words and structures, teachers can use some different games to get more attention from students and to make them more active For example: To help student remember the new words and structures in “Listen and read” ( Unit 1- English 9) teacher can guide student to play the game *“ Noughts and crosses” impressed mosque wishes pen pals correspond visit keep in touch modern used to - Teacher asks students to close their books - Teacher makes a sentence Maryam was really impressed by the beauty of Hanoi - Teacher divides the class into two groups: One group is “Noughts” (O) and another is “ Crosses (X) - The groups choose the words in the table and make sentences in turn The group that makes a correct sentence will get an “O” or an “X” Example: Group " Noughts" chooses the word " impressed”, if one student from the group can make the sentence "Maryam was really impressed by the beauty of the city/ Ha noi”, the group will get an “O” Group " crosses" chooses the word "used to", if one student from the group can make the sentence, " Lan used to walk past the mosque (on Hang Luoc street/ on her way to primary school)" the group will get an “X” O X - The group that has three "O" or three "X" in vertical, horizontal or diagonal lines will win the game *Lucky Number - Teacher writes numbers on the board and tell students each number is for a question but of them are lucky numbers If students choose a lucky number, they not have to answer any questions but they get two points and they can choose another number - Teacher divides the class into two teams - The team having more points wins the game Questions for Lucky Number: Listen and read –Unit 6- English 1/ What does group have to do? 2/ Lucky Number 3/ Mr Brown has to give out the bags ( Is this sentence T or F?) 4/ Complete this sentence: If they work hard today, they 5/ Lucky Number 6/ What we call a person who works to protect the environment from damage or destruction? 7/ Give the names of the two pictures: *Suggested answer: 1/ The group has to check the sand 3/ It's True 4/ If they work hard today, they will make the beach clean and beautiful again 6/A conservationist 7/ garbage dump/ water pollution * Activity 10- square Teacher shows the squares on the board Teacher tells students that they are going to retell the content of the lesson by choosing any numbers on the squares The contents of the squares are hidden Teacher divides the class into two teams The team having more correct sentences will win the game After the game, teacher asks some students to look at all the squares and retell the content of the lesson conservationists/be/ beach.// going/clean Group1/walk/the shore Group 3/ check/ rock Mr Jones/ collect/bags/ take/ garbage dump Group2 /check/ sand Mrs Smith/provide/ picnic lunch d Teach Speaking ( Speak ) : Teachers should collaborate frequently used forms of practice speaking in pairs (pairs) or in groups (groups) so they have more opportunities to use English in class In addition, teachers should organize activities to the competition between groups, creating exciting learning atmosphere With what words students want to express in English but not, may allow students to use the special Vietnamese students say false, incorrect pronunciation is not interrupted Teacher should let pupil speak naturally, then correct for weak students, teachers need to give a lot of suggestions, questions or simply close small problem for students not lose confidence when answering For example, to teach part Speak at Unit - , I used cardboard to write the conversation to which the purpose is to focus the attention of the students to look up the table, handing pairs student activities rearrange the position of the sentence into a logical conversation , the teacher easily be handled all subjects to students if they look at the books, they will easily be dominated by pictures other by vivid pictures , colors look beautiful or neglect look Besides, it’s very convenient for students to look up the table to practice conversation in pairs e Teach listening skills ( Listen ) Teachers should take three steps to teach listening ( listening before, during and after listening listening ) and should be grouped according to student performance, combined with photos, listen more games to be gentle Now students should listen to through out a single turn and not interrupt The simple listening ( name, age, classification ) should be to the average student, weak , poorly detected, the complex listening for strong students to answer ( describe , explain , compare ) For example: Listen To teach part -Unit - English 8, I have prepared some utensils follows: stereo- tapes, garlic, green peppers and some pictures of dishes collected from magazines " Happiness family " and " Women of Vietnam ", With this preparation, when I give things out, the students can learn the lesson content today is what attracted me and the right to post a gently f Teaching reading comprehension skills (Read ) Teachers also perform three steps to teach reading ( before reading , during reading and after reading ) Teachers should simplify reading by giving some simple exercises like article provides some questions correctly identify false (T/ F statements), rearrange the sentence position due course content questions story ( Ordering ), painting and taking questions for students to guess the content , ask students to put a few questions that I hope all readers will respond to avoid boredom, teachers should change the procedure technology to match the content and the type of exercise The article read in class relatively new term with ample amount of preparation so the students are all extremely important , teachers should guide students to specific tasks before learning something new all the teacher's intentions such as composing new kind words from , find the reading theme , the actual contact For example: To teach part Read - Unit 8, I not use the usual tricks such as T / F statements, comprehension question ( Lucky number), but I guess for students in the form of lesson content Networks Have students work under the groups, the board wrote After reading the contents of the two groups continue to post additional comments to the above table to complete and each group can only be written on a turn table Thus attract most students participate in positive activities g Teaching writing skills ( Write ) Teachers also perform three steps to teach writing ( prewriting, writing, and later in writing ) Teachers can stimulate students' interest in using post visual aids, paintings illustrating themes write , set up a situation for the article, the article discusses types: a leaf letter, a story a good teacher should the tutorial sample through reading assignments for students by talking in pairs and groups through a number of questions, to play a language game, tell a story Thereby teachers outline ( Out line) or a key expressions on the board, ask students to use an outline or table as part of the basic key to write Besides the preparation of students prior equally more important in writing so teachers should suggest questions before students go home to have time to think Ask more problems related topics User vocabulary for students to serve content to be written Assigned to the students about the specific exercises to improve writing skills for children For example: Before teaching part - Write Unit - English8 , I ask students to prepare in advance: - Name the parts of a letter, prepared words and phrases to describe the home village The base material in my village What I like most in my village.Why? For the preparation of students, teachers can give students to write one component quickly and not need to review the students write in Unit So teachers can save time and students can participate to answer questions by a lively proactive and prepared for teachers and students how to answer questions, said before writing very fluently because they have capital from which the preparation I made B The combination of teachers and students: a Understanding and classifying student performance: Firstly, to make sure that the measure is effective to contact the school, I want to learn the location of the class in the past year combined with survey data early to know the learning status of students Next, I classified the qualified students in groups arranged for convenience later b Divide groups in the class : When I have known the students’ ability, I contact with their form teacher and presented the status of their knowledge of English subjects I divided the class into groups, each group has arranged them quite good academic from the poor, between the educated groups were similar ( not the difference ) to avoid encroaching groups the other group surfing leads to a classroom speech is not uniform in all construction Each group may nominate an academic leader best The leader is responsible for: - Managing your team in the process of English learning - Helping and guiding the practical difficulties that the team does not understand and you not - Contacting the teacher and ask the teacher explained the problem in learning the English department of the group The group learning in the classroom is very useful, they have weak or bored school student's English language entrance requirements, I have joined in the movement of the group, giving them more confidence in speaking, discussion with you in the group with the desire to contribute their ideas for the group to emulate with other 10 groups During the lesson, I also care about the children weak, prioritize them easy answer questions and encourage them to speak by giving instant point to encourage them Besides the leader is responsible for checking your knowledge in the study group as well as tubers, prepared for class post During these group discussions, team leader guides the discussion members, each member must contribute an opinion, depending on the level of students c Learning in group: After the distribution of each group in the residential area, I guide them to arrange a two week group sessions to learn without affecting the formal sessions They work together on homework , write a new post In addition to the content in class, I have plans for the team, which is selected topics simpler and closer and closer to learning knowledge to the group so that students can choose and write After choosing the topic, discussion in groups, contribute ideas to build a post office In the process of writing topics students can contact me for more words, difficult phrases, I give them about a week 's time , then collect all of the group and the individual When I put the record on a specific error and put the paper back for additional help groups complete article and write in their notebooks every two weeks I made a new topic d Self- examination, self-regulation: For the English-language, students, the self-examination, self-regulation is incredibly important So, I always create opportunities for student self-assessment and mutual assessment, said comparing, compare your opinions with our results Any activity that my students also made comments before coming to a conclusion e Summary - Commendation - Awards At the end of each semester, teachers shoud use statistics on class quality and learning of students in each group in the English department to celebrate and reward high-achieving groups and individuals to encourage best morale of their learning Testing : Above are some solutions to promote positive student learning English 8th graders that I have applied in the 2015-2016 school year and the first semester of the 2016-2017 school year at Minh Khai Secondary School The results are as follows: School year 2015-2016: Class 7A total 45 Fail Poor Fair amount % amount % amount % amount 11 33 13 15 Good Excellent % amount % 28 12 26 11 The first term of the school year 2016-2017: Class t total Fail amount 8A 45 Poor % Fair amount % amount 14 Good Excellent % amount % amount % 31 33 26 15 12 They have better outcomes, reducing the number of weak students, the number of strong students increased Have you started the academic year average, but last year achieved good results The positiveness help them achieve their desired results There are situations where I felt very surprised about their achievements, first in class when I asked them some simple questions they bewildered but only after a semester they answered the questions more fluently * Lessons Learned: - To create a positive learning environment, the teacher plays a very important role On the class, students are the main activities, but earlier when preparing all teachers have to invest a lot of effort and time to prepare teaching aids, navigation methods, organization of learning activities stars to suit every student object - Teachers should focus on classroom practice self-learning method for students: If you exercise for students to get the skills, methods, study habits, said flexible applications on the learning situations new, self- discovery and said addressing the issues raised will give them the desire to learn, evoked potential inherent in every human being - Need flexibility to coordinate the organization of learning activities in the classroom, enhance individual learning, in collaboration with cooperative learning - Combined with the assessment of teacher self-assessment of role: To promote positive student, the teacher must guide students to develop self-assessment capacity and to facilitate student participation evaluation each other III CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Positive education for students learning English in particular and 8th grade students are generally basic contents in innovation of teaching methods available today From the first day at school we have trained for creative self-discipline in learning, making them visible role itself is extremely important They always put yourself in the initiative to promote comprehension and knowledge from teachers To the teachers must be dynamic, enthusiastic and approachable to students Always create a lively atmosphere for students to direct the ultimate aim is to equip them with basic 12 knowledge For this teacher not only have extensive knowledge which requires a lot of methods to use in specific situations and the most suitable The above method should always be " grinding, sharpening , filing " in teaching practice Teachers must know how to encourage their students in learning, and then make students’ parents feel more confident of the teachers so that they can help our teachers successfully implement our growth strategy of national education Besides the physical facilities of the school are basic elements for teachers to fulfill this task Through the lessons from experiences and accumulated some experience from my colleagues I have some experiences of promoting the activeness in learning English for 8th graders that I have applied and got certain results I hope these experiences will be read and my colleagues will supply it more feasible to develop content and be of practical use to teachers of English throughout the district I sincerely thank you ! Xác nhận thủ trởng đơn vị Thanh Hóa, ngày tháng năm 2017 Tơi xin cam đoan SKKN viết, khơng chép nội dung người khác Nguyễn Thị Tường Vân 13 14 ... trying to give " some experiences of promoting the activeness in learning English for students in grade 9" 2 Rationale : In order to promote active learning for students, first we must understand... BACKGROUND : The reason for choosing the topic: In the modern world, when the economy is going up, the exchange of cultural economic meeting between the countries is increasingly expanding, the communication... collective self learning class From here you can see the importance of self-discipline in learning and feeling studious, efforts to emulate each other in learning The success of a lesson depends