Some communicative activities to enhance speaking skills for first year students of english department university of languages and international studies m a thesis linguistics

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES
AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT

NGUYỄN MINH HẠNH

SOME COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE
SPEAKING SKILLS FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES
AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS (TEFL)

SUPERVISOR: TÔ THỊ THU HƢƠNG, Ph.D

Hanoi, July 2010


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale
2. Aims of the study and research questions
3. Significance of the study
4. Scope of the study
5. Methods of the study
6. Design of the study

CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW
1.1 An overview of speaking activities in language teaching and learning
1.1.1

The nat

1.1.2

The rol

1.1.3

Charac

1.1.3.1 High learner’s talking time
1.1.3.2 High motivation
1.1.3.3 Even participation
1.1.3.4 An acceptable level of language
1.2 Communicative activities in language teaching and learning process
1.2.1

Definit

1.2.2

Charac

1.2.3

The rol

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1.2.4The rol

1.2.5Types o
CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY
2.0

Research questions

2.1

Research setting

2.1.1An ove

2.1.2Teache

2.1.3The stu

2.1.4The sy

2.1.5Curren
2.2

Research approach

2.3

Subjects

2.4

Data collection instrument

2.5

Procedures

2.6 Method of data analysis
CHAPTER 3: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3.1

Data analysis

3.1.1Result
3.1.1.1 Teachers’ attitudes towards teaching English speaking skills
3.1.1.2 Teachers’ attitudes towards communicative activities
3.1.1.3 Teachers’ difficulties in using communicative activities

3.1.2Result
3.1.2.1 Students’ attitudes towards learning speaking skill
3.1.2.2 Students’ attitudes towards communicative activities
3.1.2.3 Students’ difficulties in practicing communicative activities
3.2

Findings and discussion

3.2.1Findin

3.2.2Findin
3.2.2.1 Teachers’ problems


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3.2.2.2 Students’ problems
3.3

Conclusion

CHAPTER 4: IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
4.1

Some kinds of communicative activities
4.1.1

Using so

4.1.2 Communicative games

4.2
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
APPENDICES

4.1.3

Question

4.1.4

Role pla

4.1.5

Class dis

4.1.6

Problem

Some considerations and suggestions on using communicative activities