EVALUATION PRESENTATION

EVALUATION MODULE
HANOI UNIVERSITY
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
BODY
Research Design & Methods Assignment
Innovation Assignment
Background to the study
Aims of the study
Methodology
Results
Recommendations
III. CONCLUSION
Research Design and Methods
Title: “the effects of listening strategy training on students’ listening comprehension.”
Research Questions
What listening tasks are most frequently used in the course book?
What listening strategies are most frequently embedded in listening tasks in the course book?
Does the listening strategy instruction improve pre-intermediate learners’ listening comprehension in Viet Anh foreign language centre?
METHODOLOGY
Document analysis
Pre and posttests:
Findings:
the author of the present study with the role of the teacher in the experiment himself.
listening strategy training strongly affected students` listening comprehension ability in Viet - Anh English Centre
a small number of the subjects (only at pre-intermediate level) => not being generalized to a large population and applied to other levels.
RECOMENDATIONS
replacing interviews of professionals, language teachers, and writers of listening books (if possible) as a data collection to gather data.
need to be replicated with bigger samples of students and/or the subjects at higher level of proficiency.
REASON FOR CHANGING TOPIC
Viet-Anh is a private English center
? difficult in changing something.
Training for customized learners only
Lack equipments, materials for doing research.
Time of a course is 30 durations
Title:
"Motivating Students in the Speaking Lessons at Trung Hoa High School(YHHS)"
Background:
Communicative Approach to teaching English
Ts: difficulties in organizing the CA in the speaking lessons.
Ss:
- not actively take part in the activities in the speaking lessons.
- not able to produce a short dialogue or conversation as expected.
Participants:

Two groups:
40 ten-grade students from class 10 TN1 of Trung Hoa High School, Hanoi.
3 teachers of English of THHS.
Aims of the research
Promoting students` participation in the speaking lessons:
? to confirm the problems and to find out the causes of Ss` low participation.
? to identify and try out ways to involve as many Ss in the speaking communicative activities as possible.
Research question:
1. What are the causes of students` low motivation in the speaking lessons?
2. How should the communicative activities in the textbook be improved to promote students` participation?
Methodology
Teacher`s observation & questionnaires to students.
Instruments
Videotaping,
Classroom observations,
Questionnaires and follow-up interviews
Data Collection Procedures:

Identifying the problem
Identifying the causes for the problem
Action Plan
Evaluation
RESULTS:
Causes of students` low participation
Mean Scores
Problem solving:
Provide students with appropriate and necessary input
Provide Context
Encourage Collaboration
Demonstrate, rather than explain, new activities
Give students time to prepare
Providing a friendly and supportive atmosphere
Mean Scores


Mean scores of students` self - reported motivation after the action plan

38.0
40.0
38.6
42.5
24.4
23.5
22.6
21.5
CONCLUSION
the overall class motivation and students` self-reported motivation increased.
providing Ss with necessary vocabulary and ideas relating to the topic and improving the T`s organization of communicative activities ? Ss overcome the lack of appropriate language, confidence and fear of making mistakes.
LIMITATIONS
the researcher has no chance to deal with other factors.
the teacher could not control the students` even participation because of their difference in the language level.
the students often use Vietnamese when discussing.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Regarding the limitations of this study, if had there been more time and resources, more efforts would have been spared on all factors affecting students` motivation in the speaking lesson.

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