SKKN Enhancing speaking skill through post listening and post reading activities for grade 10 and grade 11

INDEX 

PART A: INTRODUCTION 

1. REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC ……………………………………………….1 
2. AIM, OBJECTIVE, METHOD, SUBJECT, NOVELTY, FEASIBILITY AND  

STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY ………………………………………………………………….2 

PART B: CONTENTS 

1. THEORETICAL BASIS OF THE TOPIC……………………………………………………3 

1. Concept of speaking skill …………………………………………………..……3 
2. The importance of speaking skills for learners…………………………….…… 4 
3. The necessity of practicing speaking skills ……………………………………..4 

1. PRACTICAL BASIS OF THE TOPIC……………………………………………………….5 

1. Common problems during speaking activities ………………………………….5 
2. Principles of teaching speaking skill ……………………………………………6 
3. Developing speaking skills through post reading and post listening activities at upper 

secondary schools  .…………………………………………………………6 

III. PRACTICAL APPLICATION IN TEACHING…………………………………………8 

1. Role-play ……………………………………………………………………… 8 
2. Story telling ……………………………………………………………………11 
3. Interview ………………………………………………………………………16 
4. Describing events through cues ……………………………………………….19 

PART C: CONCLUSION 

1. RESULTS OF THE EXPERIENCE APPLICATION…………………………………..19 
2. SUMMARY…………………………………………………………………………………………..20 
3. PROPOSALS………………………………………………………………………………………..20 

REFERENCE BOOKS 

PART A: INTRODUCTION 

I. REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC 

The Covid 19 pandemic has had a severe impact on almost all aspects of life in general and on education in particular in the past two years. On the pretext of the pandemic, every effort has been made to overcome the difficulties. Various measures have been taken to prevent and protest against the spread of Covid 19. Thus, all the educational staffs from central to regional organizations have effectively carried out the plans to face up to the complicated situations. Nghe An is one of the provinces that experience the outbreak of Covid 19 several times. Teachers and students have shifted to online teaching with the motto “stop going to school but not stop studying”. To cope with the issues related to online teaching during the period of the pandemic, on the 16th September, 2021, the head of the 

Ministry of Education and Training enacted a document No 4040/ BGD&ĐTGDTrH 2021 guiding the implementation of the National Curriculum for lower and upper secondary education in the school year 2021-2022. As a result, a lot of lessons of almost every subject have been omitted or changed to the form of students’ self study. About English subject at upper secondary education, most speaking and writing lessons have been left for students to practice at home under the teachers’ guide. This leads to the fact that students’ communication skill and speaking skill have not been trained as well as face-to-face lessons because not all students are studious enough to practice speaking alone at home and they know of no effective way to improve speaking skill by themselves despite the teachers’ directions. Understanding these problems, we have decided to choose and carry out the topic:“Enhancing speaking skill through post listening and post reading activities for grade 10 and grade 11 students at Cua Lo Upper Secondary School”. 

1. AIM, OBJECTIVE, METHOD, SUBJECT AND RANGE OF THE STUDY  

• Aim of the Study: 

The topic was studied and applied with a view to enhancing the speaking skill for grade 10 and grade 11 students. It is also served as a source of materials that help English teachers improve speaking skill for their students. 

Through this study, the topic has helped the writers draw experiences of  developing the students’ speaking skills.   

• Objective of the Study: 

The writer’s experiences shown in this study may provide English teachers with a source of materials to improve students’ speaking skill. In addition, students can also use the methods illustrated in this study for their self-study in practicing speaking skill. 

• Method of the Study: 

• Studying the materials about improving speaking skills in reference books. 
• Analyzing and drawing experiences from the process of teaching. 
• Applying in the real teaching to self-evaluate. 

4. Subject of the Study: 

– How to motivate students to use the target language they learn in the reading and listening lessons to practice speaking in post activities. 

5. Novelty of the Study: 

It is possible that the topic of developing students’ speaking skill is not really new in the field. Our topic, however, focuses on the ability of students to study by themselves under the guide of their teachers in very special studying cases – which sometimes include online classes.  

6. Structure of the Study: 

The Study is made up of three main parts as follow: 

– Part A: Introduction 

– Part B: Contents 

– Part C: Conclusion 

7. Feasibility of the Study:

 Once having been applied among students at Cua Lo Upper Secondary School , it has proved that the method is really feasible and has helped students become more confident to practice speaking in public because they can make use of the language they have just learnt in the reading and listening lessons and imitate the way the natives speak. They don’t have to worry about writing or thinking in Vietnamese and then translating into English as what they used to do whenever speaking English in public and they also don’t worry about making mistakes in speaking because they are imitating or even copying the language of the native speakers. 

PART B: CONTENTS 

I. THEORETICAL BASIS OF THE TOPIC: 

1. Concept of speaking skill: 

1.1. Speaking definition :