SKKN Some useful activities to stimulate students in learning project lesson at High School

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

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.1.Rationale.

For very long time being, English has become an – n-0pinternational

communicative language in the world. It has been widely used in different fields

such as economics, politics, culture, science, technology, education and tourism. It

must be strongly affirmed that English is one of the most important means of

communication, the key factor helping develop in our society. Therefore, teaching

and learning English to use in daily life is more and more essensial. Then, for

the time being on, teaching and learning English has been playing a more

important role in the purpose of human – development as the 2018 – education

program. Speaking is the most difficult in the four skills. Reading, listening

and writing can be conducted in progressof learning with a teacher or on

learrner’s own, with books. I think that the way of teaching by oral presentation

will motivate student to use English in the spoken classroom. At Quynh Lưu 4

High school, a large number of students are not capable of speaking English while

they have such a long time to do tasks of the lesson . Up to now, we have accessed

English syllabus of Global Success for 3 ỷears, the teachers of English find it

difficult to encourage their students to make oral presentation in the process of

teaching English skills. As in other schools, teachers of English in Quynh Lưu

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are now approaching project – based learning to teach English to students. They

hope to provide students with a means of communication, namely English which

is vital for them to be successful in their job and to fulfill their social demands in

the time of globalization.Therefore, it is really essential to know whether the

project based learning has the good effects on teaching oral presentation skill to

the 10 th graders of Quynh Lưu 4 High school. With the aim to access the method

on teaching oral presentation through the Project – based learning, I would like to

choose the topic: “Some useful activities to stimulate students in learning

project lesson at Quynh Lưu 4 High School”, to find out the answer, and

further, to help improve the teaching of oral presentation at my school. In this

study, I wouldl ike to study on developing students’ oral presentation through

Project – based learning in English language activities, hoping students feel

confident to create their own generally communicative production during each

topic lesson.

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.2. Aims and objectives of the study.

This study has been designed to investigate the use of oral English

presentation for the 10th – grade students at Quynh Lưu 4 High school. In general,

it has two purposes getting from learners’ work during lessons of a learning topic

(of each Unit). Firstly, it aims at finding students’ attitudes towards the co-

ordinating group work, team work. Secondly, it is to investigate the impacts of oral

presentations through project – based learning on the students’ performance in

English lessons done in several forms such as presenting, reporting, short – film

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scenes. As a result, it is to provide the teachers with some suggestions to make best

use of oral presentations in their teaching with a view to better their students’

speaking skill.Our objective is to show how project based leaning can provide

students enough practice to develop oral presentation skill in speaking English

language.

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.3. Scope of the study.

There are many different ways to motivate students to learn English, all

these issues cannot be fully covered in this paper. Due to the limited time and the

length of the thesis, I focus on exploiting students’ attitudes toward the use of

project based leaning (PBL) and its effectiveness in teaching the oral presentation

skill. The subjects of the study include about ninety 10th grader students of two

classes: 10A2, 10A4 at Quynh Lưu 4 High school.Applying the range of the topic

study, I would like to make class 10A2 the experimental unit and class 10A4 the

control unit.

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.4. The mission of study.

Do research on the theoretical and practical basis of teaching through

guiding students in group work or team work.

Do research and propose the process of making project activities that must

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be relevant with the competence knowledge of New English 10 Global Success so

as all get chances to join and build their overall group’s presentation.

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Build and develop a set of criteria to evaluate students’ co-operation

capacity through their share for overall group or team work.

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Do Pedagogical experiment to test the scientific hypothesis of the sutdy.

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.5. Methods of study.

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.5.1.Theoretical methods.

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Study relevant document on reliable sources for the topic: boo0ks,

magazines, Website supplying the thesis of teamwork, groupwork, project

management,….

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Study as the base data of Unit’s contents, theme contents of New English

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0 Global Success for overall Project presentation.

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.5.2.Methods of pedagogical invesstigation.

Do survey and conduct class running on project presentation of groups.

PART 2: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND.

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.1. Project presentation.

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.1.1. Concept of project presentation. Oral presentation is an extension of

oral communication skill. It is where the presenter shows their knowledge on a

particular subject. The participant might choose the title or the teachers give it to

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