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22.86%

54.29%

17.14%

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10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

MAM BCM BAS ADT SFW AO

Factors making students anxious in SEC

MAM: Making a mistake

BCM: being corrected mistakes soon as they are made BAS: being asked to speak without preparation

ADT: A difficult topic

SFW: Speaking in front of the whole class AO: Another one

The result surprised the researcher. Four factors a) making a mistake, b) being corrected mistakes soon as they are made, c) being asked to speak without

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preparation e) speaking in front of the whole class were chosen with the percentages of 5.71%, 22.86%, 54.29%, 17.14% respectively. This again affirmed that being asked to speak without preparation was extremely harmful to students‟

speaking. It also was the factor causing students‟ anxiety to SEC most.

Question 3: The students’ attitude when speaking in group work activities.

Table 2: Students’ feeling when speaking in group work activities

Criteria Student’s respond Percentage

Yes 30 85,7 %

No 5 14,3 %

Looking at the table above, we can see that when asked about the attitude when speaking in group work activities, more than 85 % (30 out of 35) of the students said that they feel more comfortable when speaking in group work activities. Very few students 14,3 % (5 out of 35) supposed that it was waste of time.

Question 4: Student attitude to group work activities

Table 3: Student attitude to group work activities in speaking lessons Lesson

exciting and lively class atmosphere

Noisy and out- of- control class

Motivation of anxious students

Domination of the better

More opportunitie s for student use

Vietnamese

Valid 85.7 25.7 82.9 71.4 8.6

Missing 14.3 74.3 17.1 28.6 91.4

The research also investigated into the students‟ attitude to group work to look for hopeful evidence for the success of the speaking lesson with group work

method. Amazingly, Most of the students support the use of group work in their speaking class- 85.7% and 82.9 % of the students thought that group work would give them exciting lesson and lively class atmosphere and give anxious students more communicative practice. 71,4% of the students expected positive effects of group work method in terms of cooperation and mutual assistance among learners in classes. The teacher should give suitable techniques to increase the equal participation which would make student learning easier and more effective in group work activities. Only 25.7 % and 8.6% of them were not eager to involve in group work because of the worry of noisy and out- of- control class and the use of mother tongue. This gave the researcher confidence to implement the group work method in the complex situation of speaking lessons.

Question 5: Students’ ideas about grouping strategies when they participate in group work activities.

Table 4: Student’s attitudes toward grouping strategies

Criteria Student’s respond Percentage

Choose student’s own group 15 42,9 %

Teacher assigns student in a group 6 17,1 %

Teacher changes the group member from time to time

14 40,0%

From the students‟ feedback to this question, the majority of the students (more than 50% 15 out 35) requested that all students want to choose their own group when group work in progress. More than 17% of the students like working in teacher- formed grouping. Whereas, 40,0% of the students requested that teacher changes the group member from time to time.

Question 6: Students’ favorite group work tasks in speaking lessons.

Talking about group work tasks in speaking lessons to which the students supported and liked best. Only 5,7% (2 out of 35) of them said that they liked discussions, 8,6 % (3 out of 35) of the students liked interview whereas, most of them 37,1% (13 out of 35) supported role play. According to them in role play they can talk more confidently. More surprisingly, only 22,9% (8 out of 35) of the students liked games. While more than 25% (9 out of 35) of them liked Information Gap Activity (IGA), according to them in Information Gap Activity, they could be given more opportunity to speak. In each task one could act as the asker, the others the answerers then they could change the role. This result is presented in chart 3 below

Factors making students anxious in SEC most

Speaking skills and its related concepts

Group work in a speaking lesson