Some methods to improve the efficiency of teaching listening skill in grade 5 at tan lap primary school

1 Table of Contents Contents INTRODUCTION Pages 1-2 1.1 The reasons for topic 1.2 Research purpopes 1.3 Research objects 1.4 Research methods 2 THE CONTENT OF THE INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCE 2-16 2.1 Rationale 2.2 The reality of problem: 2.3 Solutions and implements: 2.3.1 Solutions 2.3.2 Implements 2.4 The results achievements after application of themes 14 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 16-17 3.1 Conclusions 16 3.2 Recommendations 17 3.2.1 To the leaders: 17 3.2.2 To the professional group: 17 Other References 18 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1.The reasons for topic: Nowadays, English is very popular all over the world It is considered as the second language of many countries As a result, English becomes a compulsory subject in most of schools in Vietnam English is an important key for young generation to open the future, the needed site to step out into the world and serve their future career It is also a mean for today young generation to exchange, learn with young people all over the world, study about the customs, traditions, cultures as well as the progress of science and technology of many countries For years, learning foreign language is increasingly popularized and this subject has become a compulsory subject in all schools Therefore, the requirements set out how to achieve quality teaching hours and high efficiency This requirement requires the teachers to improve themselves not only on the qualification but also on teaching methods and teaching techniques Comprehending and understanding a language is necessary when pupils are learning a new language due to the fact that people always need to communicate and interact with others in different moments or situations in their lives This paper will focus on listening, but always combined with grammar, as a way of helping learners to understand the language system and to develop their ability by using it to communicate successfully inside and outside the classroom Communication skills comprise receptive skills and productive skills Listening and reading are receptive skills while speaking and writing are productive skills Receptive skills are these in which pupils receive and process the information but not need to produce a language to this, while productive skills require the production, for instance, a speech Listening, as we know, is the skill of understanding spoken language Listening is an essential skill, present in most of the activities we carry out throughout our lives We listen to a wide variety of things, for example; what someone says during a conversation, face to face or on the telephone; announcements giving information, for example, at an airport or railway station; the weather forecast on the radio; a play on the radio; music; someone else’s conversation; a lecture; professional advice, for example, at the doctor’s, in the bank; instructions, for example, on how to use a photocopier or other machinery; directions; a taped dialogue in class In fact, to get good listening skill, the English language learners need to have a process of regular exercise daily, weekly and monthly with the content and form of different technologies Teaching Listening and learning skills in English, though not new, but it is a very difficult skill for both teachers and pupils at primary school level.That's the reason why the actual situation like this, I figure research ideas into this subject partly in the hope of helping the English teachers and pupils gradually overcome the difficulties to carry out implementation of teaching and learning in English Listening carefully horizontal effective better help pupils learn English more positively, more proactively in acquiring, perceiving knowledge of the lesson For these reasons above, as an English teacher at Tan Lap Primary School and I always wonder how to help my pupils in reaching English easily through four basic skills: Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing However, they find listening skill the most difficult skill though some of them are really good in the application of grammar exercises They are interested in learning English in Grade but over time they feel afraid, have decreased interest to learn and lead them to the quality department increasingly decline in the grade on, especially because of their listening skill in grade Through practical research and teaching to remedy this situation, I boldly launched an innovative experience “Some methods to improve the efficiency of teaching listening skill in grade at Tan Lap Primary School” 1.2 Research purpopes: My purpose in writing this initiative experience was to find out what the most common and effective methods in developing listening skill and improve the quality of teaching English at Tan Lap Primary School, help pupils understand the importance of listening skill in learning English Beside that I can cultivate myself the professional capacity in teaching, improve the teaching methods appropriate for each positive post, each subject pupils to improve the quality of teaching and learning English at my school 1.3 Research objects: Initiative experience focused on teaching methods to improve the efficiency of listening hours and improve the quality of English at Tan Lap Primary School 1.4 Research methods: In the process of implementing initatives I have used the following research methods: - Research methods build the theoretical basis through of the search documents on teaching listening skills - Survey method, comparative analysis and synthesis - Research method: the tables 2: THE CONTENT OF THE INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCE 2.1 Rationale: During the process the teaching, the application of teaching methods to guide pupils perceive knowledge as quickly as possible, the best use of knowledge that is both a big issue for the cultural subjects in general and English subject particularly The use of some tricks in the organization of English teaching activities is both a success to help pupils develop positive perceptions of pupils in learning and eloquence, helps pupils focus mentality to grasp the knowledge and help pupils use English in a foreign language environment with real situations I remembered someone said that : “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” There is no doub that listening skill is the skill that learners must towards the first Listening is the most often used skill of communication and good listening is an integrated part of the communication process Through the above situation and causes I saw: as a teacher to teach subjects in the two classes, I need to give them the pleasure of learning passion and love in English in order to improve school quality and the quality of subject To improve the quality of subject we should improve the quality of teaching hours which content of listening because listening is one of the important skills to help them acquire knowledge Like reading skill, listening skill as well as a receptor, but listening often harder to read because the receptive language through listening to the words, there are other characteristics with the written text In grade listening activities are used widely-are important means to introduce target language or new contents, listening skills are trained and developed through different listening exercises: listening for the main idea, listening out details or listening guess means, guess through contextual comprehension exercises Listen is relevant to the topic, on the one hand aims to strengthen structure, vocabulary, on the other hand in order to help the children initially train listening comprehension skills to obtain information for the purpose of service of daily life There are many listening activities in daily living like: listen to the radio, watch television, but carried out other work at the same time (which is listening not focused) The focused listening activities are activities listening intentionally The listener focuses on the important points, necessary for its deliberate The listener knows what he wants to listen This helps the listener's attention towards your content into the right to know, so it is necessary to grasp problems with more effective learning In the learning language environment, activities listening are mainly concentrated listening and to develop kinds of different listening skills There are some kinds of main listening: listening the gist, listening for instructions necessary information, listening to confirm earlier conjectures, listening to accomplish the tasks set forth communication, listening the details Listening is generally defined as a conscious, cognitive effort involving primarily the sense of hearing and leading to interpretation and understanding We listen with our senses to understand the communication being uttered Our goal is to understand what is being uttered We want to understand the words and sentences and through this understanding retrieve the intent the speaker had while he or she communicated In other words, we try to identify speaker’s views and analyze his or her views to work out a coherent picture of the communication we face It is a difficult process, in which what is heard is weighed, analyzed, sorted, related, classified, evaluated as well as judged Moreover, English Listening skill is the ability to use language knowledge and listening comprehension purposes conversations daily communication in English 5 2.2 The reality of problem: Tan Lap Primary School is a small school, located in Ba Thuoc district, with nine classes and only one English teacher Although our school is facing a lot of difficulties, we always strive the movement of good teaching - good learning, the movement for improving the quality of education, the facilities for teaching and learning are not applied fully I still use my own laptop and electric speakers for teaching listening skill better There are also some limitations: The majority of pupils’ parents are Muong people (Muong is an ethnic minority) are less interested in the education of their children, mainly mercy only for school education and some also have a Vietnamese perspective is also not all learn how to learn English Some want attention, but the level is still inadequate, unreasonable methods So there are many lazy pupils * Toward the teachers: - Still some teachers have difficulty in performing tasks, vocational-technical, it is still difficult in the selection of technical vocational training to suit each lesson content, to suit each pupils and each stage of the listening lesson - A few teachers untapped or not fully utilized proficient use of teaching aids, lesson listen to serve in English *Toward pupils: - Motor learning, practice English listening skills of pupils is limited - Many pupils have few opportunities to hear English, they have very little chance of access to the mass media modern, advanced to the last bared that can understand English - Some pupils are in school more afraid, weaker in listening and speaking in English, they are also afraid of making mistakes in the process heard English - Train new skills and technology was difficult for pupils, especially for pupils of grade - Many pupils have not used speed reading and speaking English very fast native, made in the tape drive *Means and teaching aids: - Teaching aids for teaching serves Listening skills are very much lacking, not many illustrations, and English recordings - Tape recording quality is not good, the voice is not clear, much noise *Investigators specifically: - I have been teaching English for primary pupils since 2014 Myself have been assigned to teach English across the school grades 3, and Improving the knowledge, experience in these years Although I have had valuable experience in the process on the teaching all grades for many pupils, I still have difficulty in finding the most suitable way to teach the pupils effectively, especially in listening skill I really found it very important to change my approach so I confidently did it 6 At the school year 2020-2021, I was assigned to direct professional teaching English of grade at Tan Lap Primary School Through investigation, I realized that most uncertain vocabulary, English vocabulary was not large, English Listening skills are limited, failing to meet the requirements and objectives set out for education in general subjects and listening skills in particular In the second semester of the school year 2019-2020, I let the pupils of grade at Tan Lap Primary School 15- minute listening test I Listen to the weather report and fill in the missing words (5 points) The story of Mai An Tiem King Hung ordered Mai An Tiem and his _ to live on an island The _ was very far away One day, An Tiem found some black seeds and he grew them The seeds gave _3 An Tiem’s family exchanged the watermelons for food and _ King Hung heard about the story and he let An Tiem and his family _ back home II Listen to the passage and number the sentences you hear (5 points) A This is my classroom B There are twenty desks and benches C There are 40 students D There is a clock on the wall It is Key: big E The floweers are on the table I Listen to the weather report and fill in the missing words (6 points) family island watermelon drink go II Listen to the passage and number the sentences you hear (4 points) A B C D E3 6.9 13.8 15 51.7 % Number % Number 29 % Number % Number school 2019 2020 Number Class Amounts The School year Here are the survey results quality listening skill of pupils of grade at Tan Lap Primary School - school year 2019-2020: Table 1: Excellent good Medium Weak poor 20.7 % 6.9 Besides, I also tested the pupils’ interest before applying some of my methods and techniques in teaching English listening at my school Table 2: Check the pupils’ interest 17,2 17 % poor Number % Weak Number Medium Number 29 % good Number Number school 2019 2020 Amounts The School year Class Excellent 58,7 % 17,2 % 6,9 Starting from the poor results above, I strongly improved, gradually additional the new teaching method applied to the English periods in genera, in the year after to see the results more effectively 2.3 Solutions and implements: 2.3.1 The solutions: To attract the attention of pupils and improve the efficiency of listening hours,I conducted the following solutions: * The equipment needed for the course: Transceivers cassettes 8 Recorders readings and listening textbook Pictorial content and textbook lessons Computers, Computer speaker The illustrations, equipment * The Ten principles of listening: Stop Talking Prepare Yourself to Listen Put the Speaker at Ease Remove Distractions Empathetic Be Patient Avoid Personal Prejudice Listen to the Tone Listen for Ideas – Not Just Words 10 Wait and Watch for Non-Verbal Communication * Procedures of a general listening: In fact, listening is still a difficult skill for pupils To overcome these difficulties while listening, I often use the following measures: - Teachers introduces topics which involve listening, explain new words, concepts will listen - Gives questions to help pupils predict the content will listen -Introduces new words or revision, consolidate the vocabulary needed for all to listen - Gives out guiding questions to listen - Divides the process of listening step by step: the first time: listening the main, answers to questions The second one: listening more details … - If the long listening lesson, we will divide class into short-term for the pupil to listening, there are various specific requirements As usual the structure of the listening lesson is usually composed of three main parts: Pre-listening While -listening Post-listening Because the listening lessons are difficult, the teacher should require to apply correctly and fully the steps of a listening lesson In each stage must choose appropriate, always changing methods, teaching tips to attract pupils, they will be excited, will increase efficiency of the listening lesson 9 Here I would like to present some of the methods, tricks I normally applied in the teaching in general and especially in the listening lessons 2.3.2 Implements: The first work when the teacher entered the class-opening a school is the general pedagogic purposes to stabilize class, psychological preparation, knowledge of subjects With foreign language operate on school has a very important meaning, it is as a part of the lesson that without it, the next step is not or difficult to carry out these activities Particularly, situations created role, poses with the purpose of teaching activities -this is a necessary condition to have effective lessons That is: Prepare plans for an English Listening Lesson A Revision-warm-up: to focus their attention create excitement by some short game (bingo, pelmanism, brainstorming, guessing game, Kim’s game, chain game, crossword puzzle Ex : * Brainstorming: Unit 6-lesson 1: ask pupils to think of the Subjects used to describe body build and hair Maths English Art Subjects Music Vietnamese *Bingo: Unit 17 Lesson 1: - Teacher asks pupils to write down on their notebooks things they can eat - Prepare a list of food Then call out each word in aloud voice - Pupils listen to the teacher carefully If anyone has the same things, they cross them out The first person crossing out all things shouts “Bingo” and win the game - Suggessted list of food: chicken, noodles, fish, bread, chocolate, biscuits, sandwich, *Guessing: Guess from context:What actions? (Unit 12-Lesson 1) - Teacher asks pupils to look at the picture on page 12, 13 and write out all the verbs describing the actions of the people in it - The group having the most right verbs is the winner - Answer key: climb the tree, run down the stairs, swim, ride a bike 10 There are many other activities, but every activity I always guide clearly, definitely, in particular I often encourage them, put an exact repair These activities have helped them a lot in the next receptive listening easily In sum, you can apply various techniques, many methods in the REVISION / WARM UP is really effective, and perform many different tasks to create the pupils’ attention, class stability and help pupils with psychological preparation for their lesson B Pre - Listening: - This is the first stage of orientation to help pupils think about the subject or situation or content before pupils to listen - Teachers should create confidence for the pupils when they prepare to lead by listening, suggestive hearing about the topic, ask pupils to observe the pictures, read from passages and guess what they will hear about preparation what subject, who is about to talk to someone, somewhere, about something - Teachers can ask pupils to work in teams, guess preliminary hearing about upcoming content through pictorial or listening situations Maybe they say exactly what they are going to hear but the problem is that you can create for pupils the excitement and confidence before listening - Teachers help them to anticipate the difficulties that pupils may encounter in pronunciation or new structures, new knowledge - Finally teachers make it clear to pupils that they will be heard many times, and guidance requirements, specific tasks for the pupils to listen (Choose the right / wrong answer… ) B1-Pre-teaching: vocabulary The purpose of this section is to introduce pupils to some new words will be heard or related to the listening text These words will help them to be somewhat shaped portion of the listening I also use these tips to teach the vocabularies, such as: *visuals:(tranh, ảnh ) Ex : - pilot(n): phi công - bridge(n): cầu *Synonym/antonym: - quiet (adj)>