... students of beginner English proficiency 3.1.2 StudentsattitudestowardspairandgroupworkinspeakingactivitiesStudentsattitudestowardspairandgroupworkinspeakingactivities after ... class andpairandgroupworkactivities 25 3.1.1 Students attitude towardsspeaking practice in class 25 3.1.2 Students attitude towardspairandgroupworkinspeakingactivities 26 ... mistakes or errors Pair or groupwork is employed 1.1.3 Problems with speakingandspeakingactivities Ur (1996) points out some problems existing in practicing speakingactivities Inhibition: learners...
... requesting and providing information Guessing games: students can the guessing activitiesin pairs or groups Information gathering activities: involve conducting surveys, interviews and searches in ... in both transactional and interactional speaking Bailey (2005) divides principles of teaching speaking into three groups: Beginning levels, Intermediate levels, and Advanced levels At beginning ... that speaking is ―an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information‖ Personally, it is an interesting and reasonable idea on speaking...
... attitudestowards teaching methods applied inspeaking classes by native English speakingand non-native English speaking instructors in an English center in Hanoi The research participants included ... viewpoint is further explained by Respondent in the interview: 26 “The native English instructor often applies pairworkandgroupwork because he can‟t pay attention to each individual in class since ... instructions and explaining things during the speaking class Eighteen out of twenty-nine participants preferred using Vietnamese to give explanation or giving instruction 37 For instance, some students...
... defintions of attitudesandspeaking skills, the elements of speaking, the communicative approach in teaching English speaking skills, the roles of attitudesin language learning andspeaking ... features of interaction-based lessons in CLT are group- workand pair- work (Bailey, 2005:19) In other words, group- workand pair- work are two typical ways in which a teacher can group his or her students ... their attitudesin order to find out ways of improving their positive attitudestowards learning speaking skills 12 1.6 Previous research The studies involved instudentsattitudesand “speaking...
... (2007), An investigation into Viet Bac 11th grade studentsand teachers’ attitudestowards the application of pairworkandgroupworkin teaching and learning speaking skills, Unpublished MA ... (2010) An investigation into the attitudes of teachers andstudents at the Hanoi college of industrial economics towardsspeakingactivitiesin the textbook New Headway Pre-Intermediate and some ... English Language Teaching: Speaking, McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT Bailey, K.M and Savage, L (1995) New Ways in Teaching Speaking Baker, C (1992) Attitudesand Language, Great Britain: Multilingual Matters Ltd...
... Figure 1: Studentsattitudestowardsspeaking topics 21 ………………………………… Figure 2: Studentsattitudestowardsspeakingactivities …………………………… 21 Figure 3: Students enthusiasm towardsspeakingactivities ... help me find the situation of teaching and learning speaking skills, in general and teaching and learning speaking skills in the textbook NH Pre in particular From the result of the investigation, ... the attitudes of teachers andstudents at the HCIE towards the speaking skills in ELT; the attitudes of teachers andstudents at the HCIE towards the speaking skills in the textbook NH Pre and...
... participation inspeaking lessons 1.3 Learners difficulties in getting involved inspeaking lessons The finding states that learners themselves have difficulties in getting involved inspeaking lessons ... learners more time to workinpairandingroup because working inpairandingroup can help them exchange ideas and learn from each other create a natural and free speaking environment for learners ... discuss and give them more time to workinpairandingroupand at the same time provide them with suitable and interesting speaking tasks because these activities can help learners a lot in expressing...
... 100% of the students say they find pair works or group works, communicative games the most interesting and useful All the students say oral English grammar is interesting and relaxing and they all ... enjoyable and more meaningful , one of which is by using interactive activities These are designed in such a way that studentswork together , exchanging information in a purposeful and interesting ... and want to continue learning Nunan (2007) emphasized that oral practice activities ,in grammar learning and teaching, not only maintain learners’ interests but also sustain their attention in...
... interest in a targetculture Pairworkand group- workPairworkand group- work are the most useful and preferable to studentsin the speaking class in general andin presentation task in particular ... these activities usually and 27% often Although the teacher organized speakingactivitiesin different ways, 10% for individuals, 30% for pair- workand 60% for group- work, students find group- work ... find their students working well in groups, 20% in pairs, 10% individual workand there are still 10% of the teachers think that no activities can help their studentsin the speaking class This may...
... enjoyable and more meaningful , one of which is by using interactive activities These are designed in such a way that studentswork together , exchanging information in a purposeful and interesting ... clear that attitudes play an important role in learning so students will see themselves achieving greater and greater result in language learning in general andin grammar learning in particular ... and want to continue learning Nunan (2007) emphasized that oral practice activities ,in grammar learning and teaching, not only maintain learners’ interests but also sustain their attention in...
... reasons, the study, finally, recommends that in order to improve the students presentation skills, students, teacher(s) and institution should make greater efforts in learning and teaching oral communication ... 1.1 Introductory Remarks 1.2 Knowledge and Skills 1.3 Speaking Skills 1.3.1 Nature of Speaking 1.3.2 Types of Classroom Speaking Performance ... second-year students oral presentations difficulties in the classroom setting, the research was aimed at finding out: (1) the students assessment of the importance of oral presentation skills in their...
... with speakingactivities According to Ur (1996), there still exist some problems with speakingactivities as follows: • Inhibition: Unlike reading, writing and listening activities, speaking requires ... help and encourage many students to sustain their interest andwork Sustaining interest can mean sustaining effort After all, learning language involves long tem effort 11 • The variety and intensity ... the speaking topics andspeakingactivities introduced in the textbook A Very interesting C Normal A Very difficult C Normal B Interesting B Difficult D Easy D Boring Looking at figure 3.1 and...
... that includes nature of speakingandspeaking sub-skills, teaching speakingin communicative language teaching, speaking activities, classroom communicative tasks and types of communicative activities ... changing the roles and consequently speaking involves responding to what has been regarded In this case, speaking is an integral part of listening So speaking belongs to integrated skills 1.1.2 Speaking ... most frequently used one was pairwork Table 2.1: Work arrangement used in the speaking lessons Work arrangement PairworkGroupwork Individual TWC Used in 10 speaking lessons 50% 5% 85% 100%...
... look at speaking skills, namely the nature of speaking 1.3 Speaking Skills 1.3.1 Nature of Speaking Of the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), speaking plays a vital role since ... Getting and maintaining audiences attention Knowing where to stand Keeping the speech flow/Keep talking Knowing how to begin (i.e stating the purpose, explaining to the audience who you are, introducing ... of PDU studentsand teachers have voiced their worries about the slow improvements in the learning and teaching speaking skills In a nutshell, the teaching and learning atmosphere at our institution...
... difficulty in understanding these concepts, which may have resulted in inconsistent responses We found inconsistencies in 12.2% of the sample, indicating the difficulties in communicating the information ... returned and 74 (10%) did not contain enough information to be analyzed, giving a response rate of 80% and final sample size of 581 Inconsistent responses according to stage and were found in 12.2% ... women would consider using and would stop or continue using In addition, hypothetical choices were examined in terms of a non-specific "method of family planning" and not in terms of actual methods...
... education studentsattitudestowards interacting with other studentsIn the body of research investigating studentsattitudestowards interacting with other studentsin online and distance education ... the interactive model and the collaborative model (Okada, 2005) Both place an increased emphasis on facilitating interaction between students online Online and distance education studentsattitudes ... perspectives provided by online discussions with peers, they still preferred independent learning activities such as reading and disliked being forced into interdependence Their findings are congruent...