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<b>ADAPTING SPEAKING TASKS IN THE TEXTBOOK “TIENG </b>


<b>ANH 10” TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEAKING </b>



<b>LESSONS AT THUONG CAT HIGH SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY. </b>



Điều chỉnh các nhiệm vụ nói trong sách giáo khoa Tiếng Anh 10



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<b>M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS </b>



<b> Field: English Teaching Methodology</b>

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<b> Code: 60140111 </b>



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<b>ADAPTING SPEAKING TASKS IN THE TEXTBOOK “TIENG </b>



<b>ANH 10” TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEAKING </b>



<b>LESSONS AT THUONG CAT HIGH SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY. </b>



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<b>M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS </b>



<b> Field: English Teaching Methodology</b>

<b> </b>



<b> Code: 60140111 </b>




<b> Supervisor: Prof. Nguyễn Hòa</b>

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<b>DECLARATION </b>


I hereby certify the thesis entitled “Adapting speaking tasks in the textbook


Tieng Anh 10 to improve the effectiveness of speaking lessons at Thuong


Cat High School: A case study.” as my own study in the fulfilment of the


requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts at the University of Languages


and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.


Signature


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<b>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS </b>


I have benefited a great deal of support from a number of people during the time


carrying out this thesis.


I would like first and foremost to express my profound gratitude and appreciation to



my supervisor, Prof. Nguyễn Hòa for his invaluable and insightful comments, his


deliberate guidance and wholehearted supervision without which the thesis would


not have been possible.


My thanks are also offered to all my respected lecturers in the M.A course, Assoc.


Prof. Lê Hùng Tiến, Prof. Nguyễn Quang, Assoc. Dr. Lê Văn Canh, Assoc. Dr. Lâm
Quang Đông, Dr. Huỳnh Anh Tuấn…., for their informative and valuable lectures


that have enlightened my research path of the study.


Special acknowledgement is also given to my students from class 10D1 Thuong Cat


High School for their participation in the lessons. My appreciation is also extended


to my colleagues in the English Division of Thuong Cat High School for their


assistance and work sharing.


Last but not least, my heartfelt thanks go to my family and my close friends for their


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<b>ABSTRACT </b>


In the teaching context of Thuong Cat High School in Bac Tu Liem, Ha Noi, the


adaptation of speaking tasks in the textbook „Tieng Anh 10‟ is necessary because



teaching and learning speaking is not usually efficient. The students c an hardly take


part in speaking tasks seriously though they have the desire to speak English. This


mini action research is conducted in order to investigate how adapted tasks help


students of low level to get more involved in speaking, as well as improve their


language accuracy and fluency. Oral tests together with survey questionnaire and


observations are the main instruments of data collection. They are delivered to 40


grade-10 students to collect individual scores, their opinions about speaking tasks in


the textbook and their behaviors while doing speaking tasks. Based on the data,


together with advantages in methodology, the speaking tasks are adapted and


speaking activities are implemented as pilot teaching is employed to realize the


objectives of the action research. The results indicate that most of the adapted tasks


bring about some clear improvement in the students‟ participation and their


language proficiency without omitting available textbook tasks. Finally, some


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<b>LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS </b>



 ESL/ EFL: English as Second/ Foreign Language


 MC: Master Of Ceremonies


 T: Teacher


 Ss: Students


 Gv: Giáo viên


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<b>LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES </b>


Table 1: The students‟ motivation in learning English speaking


Table 2+3: The students‟ opinions about English speaking skills in the textbook


Tieng Anh 10


Table 4: The students‟ general evaluation of their current speaking lessons


Table 5: The students‟ participation in speaking lessons.


Table 6: Factors prevent the students from participating in speaking in the class.


Table 7: The students‟ opinion about the way their teacher taught English speaking


Table 8: The students‟ evaluation of their teacher‟s task adaptation



Table 9: The students‟ scores in the Pre-test.


Table 10: The students‟ opinions about the vocabulary relating to the topics in the


speaking tasks


Table 11+12: The students‟ opinions about the topics of speaking tasks


Table 13+14: The students‟ opinions about the speaking tasks


Table 15: The students‟ response to the adapted tasks for Unit 14


Table 16: The students‟ response to the adapted tasks for Unit 16


Table 17: The students‟ scores in Post-test after Unit 12


Table 18: The students‟ scores in Post-test after Unit 16


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Figure 2: The students‟ opinions about the textbook‟s topics in the textbook Tieng


Anh 10


Figure 3: The students‟ opinions about the textbook‟s speaking activities in the


textbook Tieng Anh 10


Figure 4: The students‟ general evaluation of their current speaking lessons



Figure 5: The students‟ participation in speaking lessons.


Figure 6: : Factors prevented the students from participating in speaking in the


class.


Figure 7: The students‟ opinion about the way their teachers taught speaking


Figure 8: The students‟ evaluation of their teacher‟s adaptation


Figure 9: The students‟ scores in the Pre-test.


Figure 10: The students‟ opinions about the vocabulary relating to the topics in the


speaking tasks


Figure 11: The students‟ opinions about the topic‟s familiarity of the speaking tasks


Figure 13: The students‟ opinions about the speaking tasks‟ ease


Figure 14: The students‟ opinions about the speaking tasks‟ interesting organization


Figure 15: The students‟ response to the adapted tasks for Unit 14


Figure 16: The students‟ response to the adapted tasks for Unit 16


Figure 17: The students‟ scores in the Post-test after Unit 12


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<b>TABLE OF CONTENTS </b>


<b>DECLARATION ...i </b>


<b>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... ii </b>


<b>AB STRACT ... iii </b>


<b>LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ... iv </b>


<b>LIST OF F IGURES AND TAB LES... v </b>


<b>TABLE OF CONTENTS ...vii </b>
<b>PART I: INTRODUCTION ... III </b>
<b>1. Rationale for the study ... III </b>
<b>2. Aims of the study ... IV </b>
<b>3. Research questions ... IV </b>
<b>4. Scope of the study... IV </b>
<b>5. Methods of the study ... V </b>
<b>6. Design of the study ... V </b>
<b>PART II: DEVELOPMENT ...VII </b>
<b>CHAP TER 1. LITERATURE REVIEW ...VII </b>
<b>1.1. The teaching of speaking ...VII </b>


<i><b>1.1.1.1. </b></i> <i><b>The role of spoken English ...VII </b></i>


<i><b>1.1.1.2. </b></i> <i><b>Nature of spoken discourse...VII </b></i>


<i><b>1.1.1.3. </b></i> <i><b>Functions of speaking ... VIII </b></i>



<i><b>1.1.1.4. </b></i> <i><b>Implications for teaching ...IX </b></i>


<i><b>b. Talk as transaction ... X </b></i>


<b>1.1.2. </b> <b>Related factors affecting students’ speaking ...XI </b>


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<i><b>1.1.2.2. </b></i> <i><b>Teachers ... XII </b></i>


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<b>PART I: INTRODUCTION </b>


<b>1. Rationale for the study </b>


In the past ten years, teaching English speaking at school has earned a lot of


attention and investment from both experts and teachers as well as learners and their


communities. The three main reasons must be: first, the key practical role of English


speaking has received the social awareness; second, modern information technology


has brought learners an easy access to native speakers‟ talks; third, many


methodology courses sponsored by the government have helped teachers to


approach some new teaching metho ds. As a result, students‟ speaking ability has


improved much in general.


Despite all of the above advantages, I see no much progress in the class I teach at


Thuong Cat High School. By observing, I notice most of my students hesitate to


participate in English speaking tasks. Even as the teachers have managed to engage



them in, their talks show some problems of using accurate and fluent language.


Some researchers have been particularly interested in the same situation in teaching


English skills and tried to improve it by adaptation (Phùng Thị Hoa Mơ, 2010;


Nguyễn Thị Trang, 2012). Ho wever, most of them conclude that poor textbooks and
students‟ low motivation are the main reasons. Whereas the students in my class of


10D1 confirm that they want to speak English much more than reading, writing,


grammar, and they find almost all the topics interesting. Moreover, the new set of


textbooks do have several strong points, which are available task-based contexts


and carefully guided communication practice.


Considering their English scores at the beginning of the course, I realize that most


of my students are of low level, some are better but no one is excellent. Therefore, I


do a preliminary research, search the Internet and read ESL/EFL studies. I find that


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distinctive. I wonder if I can help them by providing them with more language input


together with knowledge background, and by adapting some speaking tasks in the


<i>textbook „Tiếng Anh 10‟. I do hope that these changes will help them to have such </i>



achievements as participating more in speaking activities and producing somewhat


more accurate and fluent language.


<i>All of these above have inspired me to conduct the study titled “Adapting speaking </i>


<i>tasks in the textbook Tieng Anh 10 to improve the effectiveness of speaking lessons </i>


<i>at Thuong Cat High School: A case study.” </i>


<b>2. Aims of the study </b>


The study is aimed at improving the effectiveness of English speaking lessons for


the 10th grade students at Thuong Cat High School by means of the adaptation of


<i>speaking tasks in the textbook „Tieng Anh 10‟. </i>


<b>3. Research questions </b>


In order to achieve the mentioned aim, the following research question guided the


study:


<i>To what extent can the adapted tasks help improve the effectiveness of </i>


<i>speaking lessons? </i>


<b>4. Scope of the study </b>



Task adaptation is such a broad topic that it cannot be wholly discussed within the


framework of this paper; therefore, only one specific aspect will be central to the


speaking tasks‟ adaptation.


The study focuses on only one class of grade-10 students, so the results of the study


are not applied to all students at Thuong Cat High School or ones at other high


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<b>5. Methods of the study </b>


<b>First, the study titled “Adapting speaking tasks in the textbook Tieng Anh 10 to </b>


improve the effectiveness of speaking lessons at Thuong Cat High School.” is a


case study. It is conducted in class 10D1 at Thuong Cat High School in Bac Tu


Liem, Hanoi City. 40 students of class 10D1 are all at the age of 17. All of them


have learnt English since they were at grade 3, but most of them are low-level


English speakers. Though they pay much attention to study English, their English is


<b>not very good in general and their speaking ability is of low level in particular. </b>


Second, the study is an action research. According to Nunan (1992: 19), an action



<i><b>research includes seven steps. They are: initiation, preliminary investigation, </b></i>


<i><b>hypothesis, intervention, evaluation, dissemination and follow-up. Details of these </b></i>


<i>steps will be presented in chapter 2 of Part II. </i>


The action research lasts during the second term from Unit 9 to Unit 16. It is about


18 weeks. Oral tests together with survey questionnaire and observations are the


main instruments of data collection. They are delivered to 40 grade-10 students to


collect individual scores, their opinions about speaking tasks in the textbook and


their behaviors while doing speaking tasks.


Based on the data, together with advantages in methodology, the speaking tasks are


adapted and speaking activities are implemented as pilot teaching is employed to


realize the objectives of the action research. Two approaches to adaptation that


<i>guide this research are making accuracy-based practice meaningful and adapting </i>


<i>fluency-based activities, Hedge (2000: 273- 281). </i>


<b>6. Design of the study </b>


<b>The study consists of three main parts namely Introduction, Development and </b>



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<b>In the first part, Introduction, the reasons for the research, aims, research </b>


questions, scope and methods of the study are mentioned.


<b>The second part, Development, contains three chapters: </b>


- Chapter One focuses on theoretical background of the study, which is about


features, and functions of spoken discourse, implications for teaching, and purposes


as well as two main approaches of adaptations: accuracy-based practice and


fluency-based activities.


- Chapter Two not only describes the case of the study at Thuong Cat High School


but also presents the applied steps of an action research in details and the


instrumentation of the study.


- Chapter Three deals with a comprehensive data analysis.


<b>The last part, Conclusion, provides the recapitulation, major findings and </b>


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<b>PART II: DEVELOPMENT </b>



<b>CHAPTER 1. LITERATURE REVIEW </b>


<b>1.1. </b> <b> The teaching of speaking </b>


In order to help students to develop their English speaking ability we need insights


about the nature of spoken discourse, so we will be able to find a useful


methodology to select and design appropriate classroom activities.


<b>1.1.1. Speaking </b>


<i><b>1.1.1.1. The role of spoken English </b></i>


The mastery of English speaking skills plays a very important role for many foreign


language learners. Consequently, learners tend to evaluate their success in language


learning as well as the effectiveness of their English lessons basing on how well


they feel they have improved in their speaking ability or proficiency.


In addition, teachers and textbooks make use of a variety of approaches in the


<i>teaching of oral skills, which shows that “ oral skills have hardly been neglected in </i>


<i>EFL/ESL courses” . Therefore, it is observed that “ how best to approach the </i>


<i>teaching of oral skills has long been the focus of methodological debate”, Richards </i>



(2009:21).


Reflecting on the textbook Tieng Anh 10, I think teachers can take a great deal of


advantages in methodology.


<i><b>1.1.1.2. Nature of spoken discourse </b></i>


According to McCarthy and Carter, 1997 (cited in Richards, 2009:21), it is recent


advances in discourse analysis that have revealed the nature of spoken discourse


and its differences from written discourse. Luoma, 2004 (cited in Richards,


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<i> Conjoined short phrases and clauses </i>


<i> May be planned or unplanned </i>


<i> Employs more vague or generic words than written language </i>


<i> Employs fixed phrases, fillers and hesitation markers </i>


<i> Contains slips and errors reflecting on-line processing </i>


<i> Interactions are jointly constructed </i>


<i> Shows variation, reflecting speaker roles, speaking purpose, and the </i>



<i>context </i>


Among them, I pay much attention to the two following features:


<i>First, “spoken discourse is usually unplanned and often reflects the processes of </i>


<i>constructions”, Richards (2009:2). Thus, errors must be carefully chosen to be </i>


treated in order that the correction does not ruin fluency. In my opinion, errors that


impede communication s hould be directly corrected. Tricia Hedge (2000:289) gives


an example of such error: “ They ate smoked worm” is not immediately apparent as
“They ate smoked eel”, and “long trees” can be misunderstood as “tall trees”.


Besides, the assessment of fluency should be much more flexible, which will be


discussed in detail in the part of adaptation.


<i>Second, “interactions are jointly constructed”, which asks for shared background, </i>


active and intelligibility participation. It implies that in addition to fluency, acc uracy


must be put in consideration and speaking activities must be well designed so that


engaging students in can be successful. Moreover, the topic of speaking tasks in


textbooks should be familiar to students, or else some preparation must be made


before each lesson.



<i><b>1.1.1.3. Functions of speaking </b></i>


Richards uses a three-part framework, which is expanded from Brown and Yule‟s


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transaction, and talk as performance. Their forms and functions are quite different


and therefore they require different teaching approaches.


<i><b>a. Talk as interaction </b></i>


This refers to “conversation” which serves as primarily social function. The focus is
more on speaker‟s wish to present themselves other than on the message. Brown


and Yule, 1983 (cited in Richards, 2009:25) describe its main features as follows:


<i> Has a primarily social function </i>


<i> Is jointly constructed </i>


<i><b>b. Talk as transaction </b></i>


The focus of this kind of talk is on what is said or done. The message and making


oneself understood clearly and accurately are focused on rather than the participants


and their interacting manner.



Some main features are given by Richards (2009:29):


<i> It has a primarily information focus </i>


<i> Linguistic accuracy is not always important </i>


<i><b>c. Talk as performance </b></i>


This type of talk refers to public talk transmitting information in front of an


audience. According to Richards (2009:32), the main features of talks as


performance are:


<i> It reflects predictable organization and sequencing </i>


<i> Form and accuracy is important </i>


<i><b>1.1.1.4. Implications for teaching </b></i>


<i><b>a. Talk as interaction </b></i>


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students at school, I think they should practice a wide range of topics to present


good images of themselves in situations which call for interaction talks.


Two simple activities Richards uses to practice topic management are “in the hot



seat” and “question time”. In the first activity, a student sits on a chair in front of the


class and makes a statement about something he or she did recently. The other


members of the class have to ask three or more questions about the topic which the


student has to answer quickly. Then another student takes the hot seat. With the


activity called question time, before students begin a lesson on a new theme, he


prepares up to 15 questions related to the theme and put them on a handout. First, he


asks students around the class to answer the questions quickly. Then students


practice asking and answering the questions in pairs.


<i><b>b. Talk as transaction </b></i>


In terms of the level of linguistic accuracy that students achieve when carrying out


tasks as transaction, some scholars like Thornbury,1998 and Kumaravadivelu,1991


state that practicing these tasks focuses on task accomplishment rather than


grammatical practice and a gradual modification of their language output over time


takes on more and more target-like forms. However, Higgs and Clifford, 1982 (cited


in Richards 2009:37) claim that communication tasks often develop fluency at the



expense of accuracy. Richards (2009:39) recognizes that low-level students often


heavily rely on vocabulary and memorized chunks of language while carrying out


communication tasks. Therefore, to improve the quality (accuracy and fluency) of


language produced as students practice, he suggests:


<i> Pre-teaching certain linguistic forms </i>


<i> Reducing the complexity of the task </i>


<i> Giving time to plan the task </i>


<i> Repeating performance of the task </i>


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According to Johns,1996 (cited in Richards, 2009:42), teaching this type of talk


requires a different teaching strategy which involves providing examples or models


of speeches, oral presentation, stories,etc through video or audio recordings or


written examples. Guiding questions are:


 <i>What is the speaker‟s purpose? </i>


<i> Who is the audience? </i>



<i> What kind of information does the audience expect? </i>


<i> How does the talk begin, develop, and end? What moves or stages are </i>


<i>involved? </i>


<i> Is any special language used? </i>


<b>1.1.2. Related factors affecting students’ speaking </b>


Students‟ participation in classroom speaking activities and their English output can


be affected by a variety of factors originating from context, learners, teachers,


materials and classroom activities. In the following sections, some of the major


factors will be discussed.


<i><b>1.1.2.1. Context </b></i>


<i>Most of factors are “ outside the teacher‟s control but they will bear heavily on </i>


<i>decisions about choice of resources and classroom procedure” (Hedge, 2000:24). </i>


She mentions the following factors:


 Social attitudes


Social attitudes towards English learning partly determine teachers‟ effort to



motivate students and exposure to the language as well.


 Educational system


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<i>- The extent to which the materials in use train for public examinations </i>


<i>- The hours available for teaching </i>


<i>- The existence of institutional or departmental policies </i>


<i>- The physical constraints of the classroom </i>


<i>- Class size </i>


<i>- The resources available </i>


<i>- The cohesion that exists among English language teachers </i>


<i>- The status of teachers in the hierarchy </i>


<i>- The financial/contractual status of teachers </i>


<i>- The interest of management in continuing professional development </i>


 Examination system


Examination system is a heavily constraining factor where examinations are



considered gatekeepers to higher education or good jobs. Teachers would be of high


risk not to train students for these.


<i><b>1.1.2.2. Teachers </b></i>


<i>Harmer, 1991 (cited in Hedge, 2000:26) identifies teachers‟ roles “as controller in </i>


<i>eliciting nationality words; as assessor of accuracy; as corrector of pronunciation; </i>


<i>as organizer in giving instructions for the pair work, initiating it, monitoring it, and </i>


<i>organizing feedback; as prompter while students are working together; and as </i>


<i>resource if students need help”. All of these are common to a wide range of </i>


classroom methods. Hedge (2000: 22-31) says that they can be seen in lesson plans


but only the ability to manage activities and interactions can put them in practice.


Only when teachers have competence in management of interaction can the


mentioned roles create beneficial conditions for language learning.


<i><b>1.1.2.3. Learners </b></i>


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