HOW TO IMPROVE SPEAKING PERFORMANCE AT 3 CLASSES IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED STUDENTS

Hanoi National University of education
Faculty of English

HOW TO IMPROVE SPEAKING PERFORMANCE
AT 3 CLASSES
IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED STUDENTS

SUPERVISOR: NGUYEN HONG LIEN, M.A
STUDENTS: HOANG MY ANH & DANG HOANG HAI
CLASS: A – K64


PRESENTATION PROCESS

1. Research questions

2. Methodology

3. Result

4. Discussion of findings

5. Conclusion


REASON TO CHOOSE RESEARCH TOPIC

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FOUR SKILLS
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Speaking is generally
perceived as one of the
most fundamental skills

THE IMPORTANCE OF
THE FOUR SKILLS

Provide a look into
Vietnamese students
speaking problems (in
specific students at the four
mentioned classes)


Research questions
Our research has two questions to answer :

• What are some factors affect speaking ability of the students
at class 10ENGLISH1, 10ENGLISH2, 10A1 and 10A2?

• What are some ways to improve their speaking ability?

Methodology
Participants of the study

Instrument

Procedure for conducting the questionnaire survey

Procedure for conducting the class observation

Procedure for conducting the interview

Data analysis procedure


The participants of the study are class 10ENGLISH1, 10ENGLISH2, 10A1 AND
10A2 at High School for Gifted Students.


questionnaires

Instrument

interview

class observation


Everything observed, heard, and experienced during class observation was carefully noted in detail in the

following observation sheet.

Time

Content
1. Warm-up

2. Pre-speaking

3. While-speaking

4. Post-speaking

5. Homework

Teacher’s activities

Student’s activities


Procedure for conducting the questionnaire survey
fifteen minutes before the
classes began

teach
er of
Englis
h

twenty- minute

break at the
staff room

Questionnaires


90 minutes
Five weeks after the
Classroom observation sheet

questionnaire survey had
been administered

Procedure for conducting the class observation


in each class

recorded and assessed.

participation of 10 random students

the interview was then

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Procedure for conducting the interview


Result
Questionnaire results

Observation results

Interview results


Questionnaire result
What are some factors that affect their speaking skill?


What are some problems that students in 10 English in Hanoi National University of Education – high school for gifted students have to encounter in
learning speaking skill?


Observation results:
(1) There are no speaking lessons which are separated from other lessons.

(2) The students were not given enough time to prepare for a speaking
task before the task was performed and to perform their task.

(3) When the students were asked to work in
groups, not all of them were participated and
they often worked individually to complete the
task.

(4) They tended to use

(5) While the students were

Vietnamese when they

making performances, the other

discussed in groups and often

students in class did not listen

go off topic or chatting.

attentively.

(6) Some student talked very well in a small
group, but they still looked very nervous
when they spoke in front of the class.


(7) They focused too much on the grammar and could not talk
naturally.

(8) They often used note whenever they present.

(9) Whenever the students made mistakes, the
teacher stopped them and corrected the mistakes

10) The students had to do a lot of things in a

(11) The students were given too little time on

forty-five minute period.

listening sessions.


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(5)The students talked with too much interruption and spoke unnaturally
(6)There were many off topic sentences
(7) The intonation and the pronunciation were sometimes incorrect.

(3) Lacking of confidence was one of the easiest noticeable problems.
(4) The vocabulary of students was limited, and sometimes the students used inappropriate words.

results:
Interview

Discussion of findings
What are some factors affect speaking ability of the students at class 10ENGLISH1?

Listening ability

Teaching methodology

Motivation to speak

Practice time

Confidence

Ideas finding


What are some ways to improve their speaking ability?

Consider to apply teaching four skill for students
included speaking, listening, reading and writing
instead of just teaching grammar

To teach students how to brainstorm and more
group works to spread the knowledge so that
students do not get stuck

Bring all of the necessary technical tools for help in
visualizing lesson better

Teachers


Conclusion

Teachers

Improve the performance

Help their students overcome

conditions

inhibition and shyness

Personalize and simplify the
topics in the textbook to make
them easier

Give students more
opportunities to speak English in
class

Skills should be included in tests
and exams

Decide carefully when and how
to correct the students’ mistakes

Students

Understand the importance of

Practice speaking English outside

speaking skills

the classroom more often

Use English in the class instead
of Vietnamese to make it a habit.


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