... Mentioning characteristicsof oral presentation, Clark supposes that both presentations and reports are “ways of communicating ideas and information to a group”, however, a presentation not only ... the rationale, aims and scope of the study, method of the study and organization of the study The literature review chapter conceptualizes the framework of the study through the discussions of ... results show that this type of feedback has the lowest percentage of effectiveness of the three types of feedback according to the classification of Gattullo (2000) and Harmer (2001) 32.3% of the respondents...
... reseacher collected data through interviews and classroom observations And with the participation of 120 11th grade students and teachers of English at An Lao High School The results of the study were ... Paying attention to the success of the interaction and adjusting components of speech such as vocabulary, rate of speech, and complexity of grammar structures to maximize listener comprehension and ... learned and present it in such a way that the meaning of the new language is as clear and memorable as possible The students listen and try to understand It means that the teacher is at the centre of...
... definition of oral presentation, tour guides’ oral presentation, oral presentations as part of oral communication, the role of presentation in tour guiding job, the structure of an oral presentation, and ... presentation skill Chapter 2: Methodology: provides the current situation of the teaching and learning of oral presentation skill at HTC, research questions, informants, instrument and process of ... Findings and Discussion presents the findings and discussion of the study based on the result of questionnaire Part C: Conclusion consists of the summary of the study, recommendations, and limitations...
... presentations demands the efforts and patience of both teachers and students Limitations of the study and suggestions for further researches The limitations of this study lies in the use of the questionnaire ... LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter consists of five parts: definition of oral presentation, tour guides’ oral presentation, oral presentation as part of oral communication, the role of oral presentation ... Most of respondents rated it as very difficult and difficult In details, 22 of them reported that it was very difficult and 72 of them thought that it was difficult Only and respondents rated...
... learning experiences Sense of agency • the nature and amount of feedback • locus of causality • rewards • locus of control RE process and • the nature and amount of appropriate outcomes praise • ability ... is instigated and sustained‖ In other words, motivation involves various mental processes that lead to the initiation and maintenance of an action We could have many definitions of motivation, ... way to increase the level of motivation, so that people can be encouraged achieve this or that goal And, motivation in language learning is an outstanding field of motivation researching Now, we...
... 2.6 Data analysis The data of the study was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively Data on reasons for student‟s poor participation in class was quantitatively analyzed with the use of ... Collection and organization of data – Interpretation of data – Action based on data – Reflection (Ferrance, 2000) According to McBride and Schostak (2002), the process of action research involves ... silent and have no response 2.4 Instruments The study used survey questionnaires, students‟ self-report, and observations to collect both qualitative and quantitative data The combination of methods...
... quantitative and qualitative methods with questionnaires for informants of 56 second- year majors of English randomly chosen from four classes and teachers at the University of Technology and education ... process of preparing and making oral presentations and suggesting some techniques for the teachers to get better improvements in both teaching and learning of presentations Aims and objectives of ... “Investigating How to Improve Oral Presentation Skills for the SecondYear English Majors of the Foreign Language Department at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education” and aimed at clarifying...
... researcher of the interviewed teachers is male, and are female 2.2.2 The Instruments of the Study So as to gather more accurate data, both quantitative and qualitative methods were used Quantitative data ... good at listening and 29 students (18.1%) are good at speaking skill Sadly, the number of students good at reading and writing is over five times bigger than that of students good at speaking and ... students to communicate well and exchange information and culture with others but also promote the integration of speaking, listening, reading and writing in the ways that reflect natural language...
... the point of view of speakers and listeners In most of the processes of communication, the roles of speakers and listeners are interchanged, information gaps between them are created, and then ... the speaker and the hearer; making a choice from his repertoire of language of what to say and how to say it; and evaluating feedback from what he has done Information gap in a communicative activity ... crucial feature of a communicative method will be that it relates with stretches of language above the sentence level, and operates with real language in real situations” (Johnson and Morrow...
... significance and organization of the study Chapter 2- LITERATURE REVIEW- discuss the literature related to the feedback in writing, different types and roles of feedback as well as teachers and students’ ... collection procedure and data analysis procedure Chapter - RESULTS AND DISCUSSION- analyzes and discusses the data and then draws the implications for teaching and learning of writing using feedback ... appreciated feedback that provided them information on the overall structure and approach of their essays and that focused on the key points of their work Positive comments were recognized as motivating,...
... while at the same time fostering greater attention to forms of the writing, to reflection on what is involved in the creation of a text and to adapting writing style to the audience and context of ... that any error correction process includes some of the following general features: indication that an error was committed, identification of the type of error, selection of remedy, provision of ... positive and summative comments - Feedback in imperatives, questions and underlining errors and indicating types of errors appears to be used most often The others such as exclamations, statements…...
... Definition of feedback 2.2 Definition of criticism 2.3 Definition of sandwich feedback communication (SFC) 11 2.4 Pragmatics and significance of SFC in communication 13 2.4.1 What is pragmatics? ... What is Politeness? 16 2.4.3 Politeness strategies (PSs) 16 2.4.4 Relation of sandwich feedback and politeness 20 2.5 Vietnamese and American cross-cultural SFC CHAPTER 3: DATA COLLECTION AND ... patterns of SFC (Structures of SFC that teachers often use) 29 3.3.2 SFC as a politeness strategy 34 3.4 Discussion CHAPTER 4: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION 41 43 4.1 Pedagogical implication...
... standard set of clear and direct comments and questions to indicate place and type of content feedback These types of comments and questions should focus students' attention on the content of ... of feedback that takes into account the shortcomings of common methods of feedback, the positive aspects of them and the desires of students The goals of a particular writing course are one of ... feelings of confusion and frustration as well as passive action and indifference on behalf of the students Teachers need to develop more systemized and consistent forms of feedback that take advantage...
... Declaration I declare that this thesis is my own work and has not been submitted in any form for another degree or diploma at any university or other institution of tertiary education Information ... be understood Besides, the data from the study confirm the fact that the infrequent and inadequate feedback and assessment from teacher(s) and the institution’s lack of conductive facilities also ... iii Table of Contents iv Part 1: Introduction 1 Rationale of the study Aims and objectives of the study Scope and significance of the study...
... component of communicative competence II Nature of language skills and oral communication Nature of language skills It has known that language communication involves some skills which consist of four ... mastery of the linguistic code, the ability to recognize the lexical, morphological, syntactic and phonological features of a language and to manipulate these features to forms words and sentences” ... and to make some recommendations to motivate students to speak English more IV Method of the study To realize the aims of the study, quantitative and qualitative methods have been used The data...
... intermediate level, which is the ability to handle successfully most uncomplicated communicative tasks and social situations, and to initiate, sustain and close a general conversation with a number of ... because of their low proficiency in English, lack of confidence, lack of teachers frequent feedback and assessment and lack of teachers provision of sample presentations and language for a presentation ... evaluations of the importance of oral presentation skills in their future work and their evaluations of their presentation skills It comprised three questions, one of which was opened, and the...
... presentations Situations Situation Situation Situation Situation Situation Situation Situation AT 8.3 AT 22.3 VT 12.3 AT 25.2 AT 8.8 AT 16.7 VT 3.8 AT 9.8 AT 7.8 VT 5.8 1.2 1.2 0 1.2 Strategies ... These conditions relate to the beliefs and attitudes of the Speaker and the Hearer and to their mutual understanding of the use of the linguistic devices for information What is more, Searle (1965), ... strategies as negative 32 evaluation, identification of problem and consequences As for indirect strategies, they both preferred giving advice for change and refused to employ indicating standard...
... instrumental motivation and integrative motivation Integrative motivation is characterized by a positive attitude towards the speakers and culture of the target language, while instrumental motivation is ... theory, Gardner indicated that across a large number of studies, there have been significant correlation between integrative attitudes and language proficiency, and in his own later study (1992), ... integrative motivation and instrumental motivation as of extrinsic motivation 8 In 1992, Moore, K.D (p 173) proposes the distinction of the two concepts, that is: ―Intrinsic motivation is what...
... questionnaires and observation, recording and interview 4.4 Data analysis Qualitative analysis + Quantitative analysis = Data analysis Scope of the study There are many aspects of teaching pronunciation at ... achieve satisfactory accuracy and fluency of pronunciation, integrated with the other skills and the other aspects of language for successful communication, items of pronunciation need to be isolated ... whether pronunciation should be taught, but instead what should be taught in a pronunciation class and how it should be taught 1.3 Techniques of teaching pronunciation Dalton and Seidlhofer (1994)...