VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIOAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES TRƢƠNG HỒNG THUÝ USING GROUP WORK TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT THE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS IN TRADE (Sử dụng hoạt động nhóm để cải thiện kỹ nói sinh viên năm thứ trƣờng Cao đẳng kinh tế-kỹ thuật thƣơng mại) MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS FIELD: METHODOLOGY CODE: 601410 HANOI, 2010 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIOAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES TRƢƠNG HỒNG THUÝ USING GROUP WORK TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT THE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS IN TRADE (Sử dụng hoạt động nhóm để cải thiện kỹ nói sinh viên năm thứ trƣờng Cao đẳng kinh tế-kỹ thuật thƣơng mại) MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS FIELD: METHODOLOGY CODE: 601410 SUPERVISOR: TRAN HIEN LAN, M.A HANOI, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENT Declaration i Acknowlegements ii Abstract iii Table of contents .iv Part Introduction Part The development of the research Chapter I Literature review Theoretical background of speaking .3 1.1 Nature of speaking skill 1.2 Teaching Speaking skill in CLT Approach … .4 1.3 Communicative activities and features of communicative activitiies… 1.4 Problems with speaking activities 10 Group work 11 2.1 Definition of group work 12 2.2 Group size .12 2.3 Group work activities .13 2.4 The advantages of group work 14 2.5 Some problems and suggested solutions in utilizing group work 15 2.6 Successfully implementing group work: Tips 16 Chapter II The research .18 The context 18 The methodology .18 2.1 The participants 18 2.2 Data collection 19 3.3 Data analysis and reflection .19 Action research process .20 3.1 Cycle one .20 3.1.1 Initiation 21 3.1.2 Preliminary investigation 21 3.1.3 Hypothesis .21 3.1.4 Intervention 22 3.1.5 Data collection 22 3.1.6 Data analysis and reflection 23 3.2 Cycle 25 3.2.1 Initiation 25 3.2.2 Preliminary investigation 25 3.2.3 Hypothesis .26 3.2.4 Intervention 26 3.2.5 Data collection 26 3.2.6 Data analysis and reflection 27 3.3 Summary of the findings .30 Part Conclusion, suggestions and limitations 31 Conclusion .31 Suggestions…………… 31 Limitations………………………… 32 Recommendation for further study …… 33 References I Appendixes .II ABSTRACT This minor thesis focused on the problems of using group work in English speaking class and offered group work as a key to improve speaking skill of the first year students at the College of Technology- Economics in Trade The two main mentioned problems were unequal participation and students' overuse of Vietnamese By setting rules and assigning role, the students have got more equality in distribution to group work activities And by encouraging students to speak more English in the speaking lessons, pre-teaching some new words and giving stricter regulations, the teacher has minimised the use of mother tounge in group work activities At the end of the thesis, some suggestions for conducting group work have been given Some newly arising problems were also pointed out for further research Thank you for evaluating AnyBizSoft PDF Merger! To remove this page, please register your program! Go to Purchase Now>> AnyBizSoft PDF Merger Merge multiple PDF files into one Select page range of PDF to merge Select specific page(s) to merge Extract page(s) from different PDF files and merge into one ... offered group work as a key to improve speaking skill of the first year students at the College of Technology- Economics in Trade The two main mentioned problems were unequal participation and students' ...VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIOAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST- GRADUATE STUDIES TRƢƠNG HỒNG THUÝ USING GROUP WORK TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF THE FIRST- YEAR STUDENTS. .. pre-teaching some new words and giving stricter regulations, the teacher has minimised the use of mother tounge in group work activities At the end of the thesis, some suggestions for conducting group