A study on the techniques for the improvement to the teaching of oral skills in light of communicative english language teaching for junior high school teachers in quang ngai province part 3

A study on the techniques for the improvement to the teaching of oral skills in light of communicative english language teaching for junior high school teachers in quang ngai province

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements iv

List of abbreviations v

Part 1: Introduction 1 Rationale of the study 1

2 Aims of the study 2

3 Methods of the study 2

4 Scope of the study 2

5 Design of the study 2

Part 2: Development Chapter 1: Literature Review 4

1.1 Introduction 4

1.2 An overview of techniques, methods and approaches 4

1.2.1 Definitions 4

1.2.2 History of methods / approaches 4

1.3 An overview of communicative language teaching 5

2.2 The Junior High School Community in Quang Ngai Province 7

2.3 Students and learning requirements 7

2.4 Teachers and teaching methods 8

2.5 Materials and assessments 8

2.6 Data collection, findings and discussion 9

2.6.1 Data collection 9

2.6.1.1 The subjects 9

2.6.1.2 Instruments for data collection 9

2.6.2 Findings and discussion 9

2.6.2.1 Teachers’ Personal Information 9

 Age of teachers 9

 Teaching experience and training 9

 Qualifications 10

2.6.2.2 Information about Schools 10

 Access to resource at school 10

 Conditions that facilitate teaching 10

 Conditions that impede teaching 11

2.6.2.3 Students' Attitude 11

 Students' need for English 11

 Students' strengths and weaknesses 11

2.6.2.4 Teachers’ Performance and Perception 11

 Teachers' workload 11

 Professional support 11

 Teachers' responses to the new Tieng Anh 6-9 textbook series 11

 Teachers' perception of their own teaching 11

2.6.2.5 Remarks about class observations 13

3.1.2 Controlled speaking activities 15

3.1.3 Less controlled speaking activities 21

3.1.4 Summary 24

3.2 Techniques for teaching listening 24

2 Limitations and suggestions for further study 38

References 39

Appendix 41

First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to all my teachers at Collegeof Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University-Hanoi for their valuable lectures.And their knowledge, their thoughtfulness as well as their sympathy I will alwaysappreciate.

For the accomplishment of this study, I wish to show my sincere thanks to mysupervisor Mr Nguyễn Bàng, who has given me kind guidance and correction.

I would like to acknowledge my debt to Assoc Prof Dr Lê Hùng Tiến and thestaff members of Postgraduate Department, College of Foreign Languages, VNU-Hanoifor their enthusiastic support.

I am sincerely grateful to Mr Đinh Tấn Bảo and my colleagues of ForeignLanguages Department, Quang Ngai Teachers Training College for their attention andencouragement.

I am appreciative of all those who have kindly advised and helped me during theperiod of my study at College of Foreign Languages, VNU-Hanoi.

Finally, I wish to thank my wife for the love she gives me and her encouragementin my doing this thesis.

Hanoi, summer 2007 Trần Quốc Việt