CANTHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Attitudes and Perceptions of Binh Minh (Vinh Long) High School Students about Presenting English Grammar Lessons via PowerPoint B.A Thesis Field of study: English Language Teaching Supervisor: Ngo Thi Trang Thao Researcher: Lim Ngoc Han Code: 7062941 Class: NN0652A2 Can Tho, April 2010 Acknowledgements This paper could not have been completed without the help, encouragement and support from a number of people who all deserve my sincerest gratitude and appreciation At first, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Ms Ngo Thi Trang Thao, my supervisor I’m indebted to her inspiration, scholarly supervision and intellectual support throughout the course of writing this graduation paper Her continual encouragement, careful reading, critical comments and patient guidance made my work more enjoyable and easier I would also give my thanks to the two second readers, Mr Do Xuan Hai and Ms Luu Hoang Anh for their advices that perfect the thesis Special words of thank also go to all my informants, the students at Bui Huu Nghia and Binh Minh high schools for their willing participation in the study I greatly appreciate their generosity with their time and efforts in filling in the questionnaire Finally, my deepest gratitude and appreciation go to my family, my friends and my classmates, especially Mr Nguyen Thanh Qui, Miss Nguyen Thi Truc Linh, Miss Ho Xuan Mai, Miss Nguyen Thi Nhuyen, and Miss Vu Thi Hong Their love, support and constant encouragement gave me a great deal of strength and determination that help me during the stressful time of writing this paper Lim Ngoc Han i Tóm tắt Học sinh ngày quen thuộc với việc thuyết trình sử dụng chương trình máy vi tính PowerPoint phương pháp thuyết trình sử dụng máy vi tính thường vận dụng dạy học Thơng qua sử dụng thuyết trình PowerPoint, giáo viên tạo thuyết trình đẹp chuyên nghiệp để giúp cải thiện việc học học sinh đạt mục tiêu khóa học Nghiên cứu nhằm khảo sát quan điểm thái độ học sinh học ngữ pháp tiếng Anh PowerPoint Để thu thập số liệu , bảng câu hỏi gồm hai mươi ba câu ý kiến ý thích, thuận lợi bất lợi việc thuyết trình PowerPoint dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh phát cho trăm ba mươi lăm học sinh trường trung học phổ thơng Bình Minh hồn thành Những liệu sau phân tích phần mềm SPSS Kết thu cho thấy rằng: (1) đa số học sinh thích việc thuyết trình PowerPoint ngữ pháp tiếng Anh, (2) học sinh nghĩ phần mềm PowerPoint hiệu hữu ích áp dụng để giảng dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh, đặc biệt học sinh nhớ lại nội dung học, (3) học sinh nhận vài bất lợi sử dụng PowerPoint việc giảng dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh, chẳng hạn việc sử dụng nhiều hình ảnh hiệu ứng làm phân tán ý học sinh Những kết từ nghiên cứu hữu ích việc dạy học ngữ pháp tiếng Anh ii Abstract Students of today have grown up with and become accustomed to the use of computer presentation programs PowerPoint is one of the most popular presentation programs used as a part of learning and teaching Through the thoughtful use of PowerPoint presentations, teachers can create professional-good looking presentations to enhance students’ learning and achieve course goals The aim of this study is to investigate the students’ attitudes and perceptions towards presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint One hundred thirty three students at Binh Minh high school completed a 23-item five-point scale survey questionnaire regarding the preference, attitudes and perceptions to the benefits and drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint in English grammar lessons The data from the questionnaire, after collecting, were computed with Descriptive Statistics Test of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software The results showed that (1) the majority of students liked PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons, (2) PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons were thought to be very effective and helpful, especially in helping remind the content, (3) there arose some drawbacks such as the overuse pictures or animation that distract students’ concentration These findings are believed to have contribution to the teaching and learning method of English grammar in ESL classes iii Lists of tables Table The items of the three clusters in the second part of the questionnaire 12 Table Descriptive statistics of the frequency of the use of PowerPoint in English grammar class 14 Table Descriptive Statistics of the students’ preference for presenting PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons 15 Table Descriptive statistics of students’ perception of the benefits of presenting PowerPoint in English grammar lesson 15 Table Descriptive statistics of students’ perception of the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint in English grammar lesson 16 Table Correlation between the students’ preference and students’ perception of the benefits and drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons 17 iv Table of contents Chapter Introduction 1 Rationale Hypothesis Research aims General organization of the study Chapter Literature review Related literature: Microsoft PowerPoint program in teaching and learning 1.1 The definition of PowerPoint 1.2 The main practical benefits of the use of Microsoft PowerPoint program in teaching and learning 1.3 Drawbacks involving the use of Microsoft PowerPoint program Related studies on the benefits and drawbacks of using PowerPoint presentations 2.1 Summary 2.2 Critique Conclusion Chapter Research Methodology 11 Research questions 11 Research design 11 Participants 11 Instruments 12 Procedure 12 Chapter Results 14 Overview of statistical procedures 14 Descriptive of findings 14 2.1 Frequency of the use of PowerPoint in English grammar classes 14 2.2 Students’ preference of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons 15 2.3 Students’ perception of the benefits of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons 15 2.4 Students’ perception of the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons 16 2.5 Correlation between the students’ preference and students’ perception of the benefits and the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons 17 2.6 Conclusion 18 v Chapter Discussions and Conclusion 20 Discussion 20 Implications 22 Suggestions to use PowerPoint more efficiently 23 Limitations and recommendations for further research 24 Conclusion 25 References 26 Appendices 28 vi Chapter Introduction This chapter introduces the important role of English as well as English grammar, the necessity of applying PowerPoint in learning and teaching English as rationale of the research, the research aims, the hypothesis and thesis organization as well Rationale In the current trend of global integration, English has become a common means of communication of human being all over the world Vietnam, like many other countries, has become more and more active to integrate into the line of that common development Therefore, the first and foremost demand is given that Vietnamese people have to know and use foreign languages, especially English, beside their mother tongue Also, teaching and learning English has really become important and necessary in Vietnam These days, English has been introduced as one of the compulsory subjects in most of different forms of schools in Vietnam New English textbooks are born with the aims to improve foreign language-English for learners focusing on the five main parts: reading, speaking, listening, writing and language focus (pronunciation and grammar) However, grammar is a necessary subject in taking exams Indeed, the students need to gain the knowledge of English grammar such as parts of speech, prepositions, form of verbs or the structures to gap-filling in reading comprehension Moreover, grammar points often take a major percentage of the whole mark in the exams such as the entrance exams to university For instances, the English test in the entrance exam to university in 2009, apart from twenty sentences on reading comprehension, five sentences on stress, and about ten sentences on cultural tips and vocabulary, the rest of the-eighty-sentence-English test are the sentences containing grammar points Even the English test in the entrance exam to university in 2008 contains more than forty sentences on grammar per eighty sentences in the test Moreover, in most high schools in Vietnam, the shift in teaching English methodology which equips institution with modern teaching facilities is essential in universities and schools The object and crucial need of all disciplines in general, and of English including grammar in particular to active learning activities, and to enhance learners’ activeness, initiative, independence and autonomy in learning is computer software applications Of all, Microsoft PowerPoint program seems to be prominent and meets the requirement of new English teaching methodology to further language learning To respond to this demand, the idea of applying Microsoft PowerPoint program in teaching in general and in English, especially grammar, is being carried out more and more in most of the schools It is considered a useful aid to pedagogy and to English grammar in particular Actually, PowerPoint presentation helps enhance students’ learning in several ways For example, students can recall the lessons from PowerPoint presentations that combine attractive pictures and text (Szabo & Hasting, 2000) Moreover, it can transform a routine lesson into a lively and memorable session (Bostock, 2005) In fact, PowerPoint can be used for initial teaching, for practice and drilling, for games, for review, and for tests (Fisher, 2006) Despite benefits of PowerPoint presentations, they have been in existence in recent years in ESL classrooms because using it well requires teachers the technology skills or knowledge The teachers may encounter technical difficulties (Ho, 2003) There are often temptations to overuse background, transitions or frills which distract students’ concentration The frequency of using PowerPoint presentations in English classes, therefore, is not frequent Stimulated by the above studies, a study on students’ attitudes and perceptions of their preference, advantages and disadvantages of presenting PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons for the students at Binh Minh high school was conducted Hypothesis It is hypothesized that PowerPoint presentations are usually used in English grammar lessons Besides, the students like PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons as well as they agree with the benefits and the drawbacks of presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint Hopefully, the thesis would partly help teachers of English as well as students realize the effects, the benefits and the drawbacks of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons Research aims The study aims at studying attitudes and perceptions of Binh Minh high school students about presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint In order to achieve the aims, there are four objectives as follow:  Examining the frequency of presenting PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons  Recognizing whether students like or dislike the use of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons  Investigating students’ attitudes and perceptions towards the benefits of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons  Investigating students’ attitudes and perceptions towards the drawbacks of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons General organization of the study The thesis is organized into five chapters They are chapter one: Introduction, Chapter two: Literature Review, Chapter three: Methodology, Chapter four: Results and Chapter five: Discussion and Conclusion Chapter one, Introduction, is an overview of the rationale of the study, research hypothesis, the research aims and the thesis organization Chapter two, Literature review, is the theoretical background of the research including the review of literature and some studies related to the benefits and drawbacks of using PowerPoint presentation in pedagogy Chapter three, Research methodology, is the description of research questions, research design, participants of the study, research instruments and the procedure Chapter four, Results, shows the results from the collected data which were analyzed using the SPSS software Chapter five, Discussion and conclusion, is the discussions, limitations, implications, recommendations for further research and conclusion of the study Minh high school, (2) the students like the use of PowerPoint presentation in English grammar classes, (3) the students agreed with the benefits of presenting PowerPoint in English grammar lessons and (4) the students assented to the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint in English grammar lessons as well In addition, the correlation among the students’ preference, the students’ perception of the benefits and the drawbacks was displayed The correlation indicates that student’s preference slightly affected students’ attitudes and perceptions about presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint presentations The results are in line with the researcher’s hypothesis that PowerPoint presentations are usually used in English grammar lessons and the students agree with the benefits as well as the drawbacks of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons 19 Chapter Discussions and Conclusion In the previous chapter, there is an analysis of data collected In this chapter, the results will be discussed in terms of comparing with other researchers’ results In additions, some implications and limitations will be shown with suggestions for further research Discussion 1.1 Frequency of the use English grammar lessons with PowerPoint As presented in the previous chapter, the students at Binh Minh high school were usually taught English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations The result is in line with the researcher’s hypothesis that the teacher usually present English grammar lessons via PowerPoint presentations This can be explained by Bostock (2005) who stated that PowerPoint presentations can be used widely because using Microsoft PowerPoint program helps the teacher transform a routine lesson into lively one Donald (2004) also highlighted the frequent use of PowerPoint presentations because they can be run over and over again In addition, the result supports that the students are presented PowerPoint nearly half of the grammar lesson periods as mentioned in chapter three 1.2 Students’ preference of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons The results showed that the students like English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations very much (M = 4.06, SD = 38) This result confirms the researcher’s hypothesis and the study of Fray & Birnbaum (2002) They conveyed that students preferred PowerPoint presentations to traditional blackboards In addition, most of them preferred English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations to the one with blackboard or transparencies This result confirms the study of Lowry (1999) that students enjoyed PowerPoint presentations very much It also can be modified more to the research of Ho (2003) that compares the effect of PowerPoint presentations to that of transparencies presentations in teaching and learning In fact, the students adored presenting English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Therefore, being a teaching and learning aid, PowerPoint presentations achieved a strong preference from the student’s Therefore, this kind of presentations is believed to enhance students’ motivation 20 1.3 Students’ perception on the benefits of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons The mean score shows students’ perception on a very high degree of the benefits of presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint (M = 4.09, SD= 312) The researcher’s hypothesis that students agreed with the benefits of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons is consistent with this result This also indicates that PowerPoint presentations were thought to be very effective and helpful To a degree, it is consistent with Peek’s (1987) idea that pictures can make a presentation flashy and exciting for the learners, so the students can focus on the lessons As a result, the students are motivated to learn Furthermore, the students could easily see the structure of the lessons, emphasized the key points of the lessons and had more time to practise the grammar points, which concede the idea of Fisher (2006) Moreover, the large text and the slide headings are helpful in note-taking This is somewhat in line with opinions stated by Cook (1998), who agreed that the texts in PowerPoint presentations help take note Therefore, according to the students’ attitudes and perceptions, English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations had got the benefits in learning and teaching Actually, the students can recall content of the English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations This benefit is also mentioned in Szabo & Hasting (2000)’s study In addition, illustrated pictures used in English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations were thought to be helpful in understanding the processes better (Fray & Birnbaum, 2002) Consequently, PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons attracted students’ attention and add more interest to the lessons 1.4 Students’ perception on the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons In terms of students’ perception on the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons, the results supported some studies such as Ho (2003) ,Cook (1998) and Harknett & Cobane’s (1997), which showed that the audiences can be distracted when overusing background, pictures, transitions and other frills too much Actually, the students at Binh Minh high school agreed that these are the drawbacks of presenting English grammar lessons with PowerPoint (M=4.08, SD = 32) The result also confirms the researcher’s hypothesis that the students agree with the drawbacks of presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint In addition, the student thought that unrelated pictures or much text that hard to read in PowerPoint English grammar lessons made them perform worse (Parks, 1999; Butler & Maultz, 1996) Indeed, the PowerPoint presentation slides with 21 much detail make them lose attention to the lessons This drawback was stated by Bartsch & Cobern (2003) and Susskind (1999) And from student’s perception of presenting PowerPoint in English grammar lessons they might not work well if there is too much transition Thus, the students felt less interested in the English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations 1.5 Correlation between the students’ preference and students’ perception of the benefits and the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons The results from the Pearson Correlation Test disclosed that correlation between the students’ preference and students’ perception of the benefits as well as the correlation between the students’ preference and students’ perception of the drawbacks of presenting PowerPoint presentation in English grammar lessons is positive and significantly correlated (p = 00) In other words, students’ preference slightly affected their attitudes and perceptions towards the benefits and the drawbacks of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons Indeed, the students informing the data and information based on their own ideas Apparently, while fulfilling the questionnaire, the students did not discuss with their friends Besides, the students did not let their own bias in giving the information Implications The findings discussed above leads to several implications Firstly, in terms of the frequency of presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint, this technique were quite often used implying that the teachers like using PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons (Mason & Hlynka, 1998), Moreover, the teachers might recognize some beneficial aspects of presenting English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Maybe, this kind of presentation can transform a passive interaction between the teachers and the students into an active one (Bostock, 2005; Jones, 2003) Furthermore, the teachers can refine and reuse PowerPoint presentations in the years later (Ho, 2003) And the teachers may use to teach interesting games such as crossword and lucky number that are hard to design with traditional teaching method (Bartsch & Cobern , 2003) Secondly, in terms of students’ preference, it is obvious that the students liked to learn English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations implying that the presentations were perceived to be very effective and helpful When presented English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentation, the students could see the structures of the lessons and then followed the processes the teachers did (Bartsch & Cobern, 2003) Furthermore, they were absorbed to the lessons thanks to the illustrated pictures, animations and even audio(Peek, 1987) Consequently, the students motivated to learn and they understood the grammar lessons The students’ motivation is important for language competence and 22 performance (Harrison, 1999) Moreover, the students believed that their English grammar learning can be improved or more effective because they found themselves motivated and interested in PowerPoint (Nouri & Shahid, 2005) It means that they also realized the benefits of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations Indeed, embedding texts, images, pictures and animations make the PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons flashy and attract the students’ attention (Peek, 1987) They thought that the images of English grammar lesson with PowerPoint presentations made them interested in the lessons and helped them recall the content and attracted their concentration Moreover, English grammar lesson with PowerPoint presentations gave the students more time to practise drills and exercises During the PowerPoint presentations, the students easily followed the teacher’s processes because of the large text and the pictures The students also realized the drawbacks of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons They recognized that unrelated pictures or much text that hard to read in PowerPoint English grammar lessons made them perform worse (Ho, 2003; Butler & Maultz, 1996) Besides, the PowerPoint presentation slides with much detail made them lose attention to the lessons (Parks, 1999) They were distracted when the teachers overused background, pictures, transitions and other frills too much (Harknett & Cobane, 1997) Therefore, the teacher should avoid the drawbacks of PowerPoint presentations or have solution to overcome them For example, the students felt unintelligible if the teacher gave much information or much text in a slide of PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons Consequently, the teachers should not give too much detail in the lessons The students also showed that when the teacher used much unrelated images, which distracted the students from the lessons so the teachers should not overuse the images, animations or transitions which distract students’ attention And the teachers should take into account for the frequency and the way using PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons suitably so that this kind of presentations make the students absorbed so much Suggestions to use PowerPoint more efficiently In addition to the actual slide presentation, PowerPoint enables teachers to create and print handouts for students Levasseur & Sawyer (2006) stated that a handout consists of two to six slide images printed on a single page Handouts help support teachers’ presentations by keeping students focused on what teachers are saying and by not requiring students to write down everything they see on the projection screen (Selimoglu & Arsoy, 2009) Preparing handouts for students is a courtesy However, according to Levasseur & Sawyer (2006), teachers should not provide too much information in students’ handouts; otherwise, there is no incentive to sit through presentations They indicated 23 that many teachers create students’ handouts in which important information is missing from the slide representations on the page As teachers proceed through each slide, important information is provided so that the students can fill in the blanks in their notes Not only the students have to pay attention in order to compile a complete set of notes, they may also remember the important concepts better by having to write them down (Fisher, 2003) In addition, Selimoglu & Arsoy (2009) also stated that PowerPoint allows teachers to include and print a notes page for each slide to assist them in the actual delivery of presentations Teachers can then use these notes pages for studying, take them to the podium, or hand them out to students when supporting information for their slide show is necessary In preparing for a presentation, teachers should consider creating notes (Connor & Wong, 2004; Bartsch & Cobern, 2003; Acikalin & Duru, 2005) Levasseur & Sawyer(2006) also stated that accomplished teachers could avoid a common pitfall among novice presenters- putting too much text on the slides if they adopted the recipe card format for their notes and keep their slides brief and to the point In addition, they advised that teachers should use the notes pages in PowerPoint as a replacement or complement to their recipe cards to store reminders to themselves These notes pages also come in handy for question periods at the end of presentations Limitations and recommendations for further research During the process of conducting the study, some limitations appeared as difficulties First, that there is one more instrument –interview was intended to enclose with the questionnaire to gain more reliability in this study However, works involving teaching practice cost almost all of the time of the researcher; therefore, the time to spend on interviewing the students which aims to discover the reasons of the students’ attitudes and perceptions towards PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons is limited As a result, the reasons for students’ preference as well as their attitudes towards English grammar lessons via PowerPoint presentations were hardly apparent As planned, the study would be conveyed both the students and the teachers but the number of the teachers who teach English grammar with PowerPoint is rather rare Therefore, there is no chance exploring the benefits and drawbacks of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint presentations from teachers’ attitudes and perceptions Consequently, it cannot identify whether there is a match between teachers’ and students’ attitudes and perceptions about presenting English grammar lessons via PowerPoint In addition, there are no exact solutions to deal with the drawbacks of using PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons Consequently, the way to use PowerPoint presentations effectively in English grammar lessons could not be withdrawn 24 For more research instruments, lack of time and dependent variables such as solutions to the drawbacks and the ways to use PowerPoint presentations effectively is a big limitation of the study Therefore, when conducting the survey, the researchers should have more time Besides, the researchers should make interviews with their participants to gain insight of the participants’ responses In addition, the study may be carried for both teachers and students so that some more appropriate aspects of the benefits and the drawbacks can be withdrawn From then, the researchers can find out the solutions to overcome the drawbacks and improve the benefits widely Furthermore, it can explore the match between teachers’ and students’ attitude about PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons And what’s more, the researchers may also have experimental studies which examine the effect of using PowerPoint presentations in English grammar For example, the researchers may teach a course on English grammar lessons to two groups; one group with traditional lectures using blackboards and the other with PowerPoint presentations The pre-test and the post-test from the course may investigate the effects of PowerPoint presentations Conclusion This study is to assess student’s perceptions and attitudes towards PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons The results disclose that PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons were usually used at Binh Minh high school Besides this unveiled the students liked to learn with PowerPoint presentations in English grammar lessons That is, this kind of presentations benefits the 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Computers & Education, 35, 175-187 27 Appendices  Appendix 1: The questionnaire in English QUESTIONNAIRE ON ATTITUDE TOWARDS PRESENTING ENGLISH GRAMMAR LESSONS VIA POWERPOINT BACKGROUND INFORMATION Please put a cross (X) to your selection  Your grade: 10 11 12  Gender: Male Female  Years of learning English in secondary schools: years years  How often does your teacher use Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation in English grammar lessons? Always Usually Sometimes Seldom Never  Please put a cross (X) to your selection in the followings statements (limit to check “Neutral”) STATEMENTS Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree I prefer being presented English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations to traditional lectures using blackboard English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations help me pay attention to the lessons I can easily see the structure of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations 28 There is so much text in the slides of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations that it is hard to read them Visual images presented in English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations help me to recall content of the lessons I have positive attitudes towards English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations I am less motivated when English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations are used in class English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations help me to emphasize key points during grammar lessons I don’t like learning English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations 10.Images in English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations add my interest to the material 11.I feel distracted when teacher use much images in English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations 12.English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations make grammar lessons more interesting 13.I feel bored when teachers often presenting English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations 14.English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations give me more time to practices drills and exercises 15.I can’t recall the content of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint 29 Presentations because teachers use irrelevant pictures 16.The text on the screen of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations is usually large enough to read, which make me understand the lessons 17.I feel unintelligible if the teacher give much information in English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations 18.Slides headings in English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations help note-taking 19.I often focus on the pictures, animations, transitions, and backgrounds rather than the content of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations 20.Because the teacher used images to illustrate steps of a process in the English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations, I understand these processes better 21.There are many details in slides of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations, which makes me lose my attention so I can’t catch up what the teachers convey 22.Images in English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations help me focus my attention 23.I find it hard to see the structure of English grammar lessons with PowerPoint Presentations 30  Appendix 2: The questionnaire in Vietnamese PHIẾU ĐIỀU TRA THÁI ĐỘ CỦA HỌC SINH VỀ VIỆC DẠY NGỮ PHÁP TIẾNG ANH BẰNG POWERPOINT THÔNG TIN CÁ NHÂN Đánh dấu X vào ô vuông mà bạn lựa chọn Lớp: 10 11 12  Giới tính: Nam Nữ Anh văn hệ: năm năm  Giáo viên bạn có thường sử dụng PowerPoint để dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh? Luôn Thường thường Thỉnh thoảng Ít Khơng  Hãy đánh dấu X vào ý kiến sau mà bạn chọn: Ý KIẾN Hoàn toàn đồng ý Đồng ý Khơng có ý kiến Khơng đồng ý Hồn tồn khơng đồng ý Tơi thích học ngữ pháp với dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày bảng đen Bài dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint giúp tơi tập trung vào học Tơi dễ dàng nhìn thấy cấu trúc dạy ngữ pháp 31 tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint Những trang PowerPoint dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh có nhiều chữ làm tơi khó hiểu Những hình ảnh dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint học ngữ pháp giúp nhớ lại nội dung học tốt Tôi thấy hứng thú học với dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint Tơi hăng say học ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint Bài dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint giúp nắm rõ điểm quan trọng học Tơi khơng thích học ngữ pháp với dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint 10 Hình ảnh dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint làm tơi thích học 11 Tơi bị xao lãng, khó tập trung khi giáo viên sử dụng nhiều hình ảnh dạy tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint 12 Bài dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint giúp tơi thích học ngữ pháp 13 Tôi thấy chán giáo viên dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint 14 Bài dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint giúp tơi có 32 nhiều thời gian để thực hành làm tập 15 Tôi nhớ nội dung dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint giáo viên dùng hình ảnh không liên quan đến học 16 Chữ viết chiếu hình rõ ràng dễ đọc nên giúp tơi dễ tiếp thu 17 Tơi thấy khó hiểu giáo viên đưa nhiều thông tin dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint 18 Tiêu đề trang PowerPoint dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh giúp dễ ghi 19 Tôi thường tập trung vào hình ảnh, hiệu ứng, hình nội dung dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint 20 Giáo viên sử dụng hình ảnh để minh họa bước dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint nên dễ hiểu học 21 Những trang PowerPoint có nhiều chi tiết làm tơi tập trung, không nắm rõ hết lời giáo viên giảng 22 Hình ảnh dạy ngữ pháp tiếng Anh trình bày PowerPoint giúp tơi tập trung ý vào học 23 Tôi không nắm cấu trúc dạy ngữ pháp trình bày PowerPoint 33