MA-Thesis: A study on factors affecting english speaking skills of the 10th grade ethnic minority students at van hoa i high school

MA -Thesis A study on factors affecting english speaking skills of the 10th grade ethnic minority students at van hoa i high school was conducted to find out the major factors that prevent the students from achieving good English speaking skills. The study was carried out at Van hoa I High School, Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam. The participants of the research were 51 grade 10th students and 6 English teachers at this school

MA-Thesis: A study on factors affecting english speaking skills of the 10th grade ethnic minority students at van hoa i high school

1. Preface

1.1 Rationale

According to the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) in Vietnam, the core aims of English as a subject is to help the students to form and develop their communication skills through learning four skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing and language skills such as phonic, vocabulary and grammar. The Circular No. 01/2014/TT-BGDĐT (January 24th, 2014) of the MOET defined that when the children finish primary school, they will acquire level 1 of the Vietnamese Six-level Foreign Language Competency Framework. In other words, at this level, the students can basically understand simple actual conversations, and they can apply their English to primarily communicate with English speaking people.

1.2 Aims of the study

The study aims to explore the difficulties that the 10th grade ethnic minority students at Van hoa I High School have encountered when practicing English speaking skills and factors that cause these difficulties. Besides, it also seeks to find out the suggested solutions to improve the students’ speaking skills.

1.3 The research questions

In brief, the objectives of the research could be specified into these research questions:

  • What are the factors that affect 10th grade ethnic minority students’ speaking skills at Van hoa I High School?
  • What could be done to enhance speaking skills for the students?

1.4 Scope of the study

The study will be taken place at Van hoa I High School. It is a mountainous school located in Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam. The total number of the students at Van hoa I High School is around 2000

1.5 The significance of this study

Speaking skills are considered as the most important aspect of language learning because when talking about language learners, it is often referred to the speakers of that language (Ur, 1996). Furthermore, speaking skills play such a very important role in human’s life. Through speaking, people can communicate their thought, their feelings and so on to each other

2. Content

2.1 Literature review

Definition of speaking skills

Features contributed to the English speaking competence

Speaking problems

Related research

2.2 Research methodology

Research questions

Participants

Data collection instrument

Data collection procedure

Data analysis

2.3 Findings and discussion

An overview of the results

Results

Discussion

3. Conclusion 

The final chapter was supposed to summarize the major findings which had been discovered by the research and written in the previous chapter results and discussion. Moreover, the researcher also suggested some pedagogical implications for improving learners’ speaking skills. In addition, the researcher also shared limitations of the study in this section and provided suggestions for further research.

4. References

Abd, E. F. (2006). The Effectiveness of a Task-Based Instruction Program in Developing the English Language Speaking Skills of Secondary Stage Students.

 Arnold, J. & Brown, H. D. (1999). A map of the terrain. In J. Arnold, Affective method in language learning (pp. 1-24). Cambridge: Cambridge Universtiy Press.

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