SKKN THPT [SKKN MÔN TIẾNG ANH] An investigation of high school students’ attitudes to group work and pair work.

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ABSTRACT​

This research aims to find out to what extent the teachers and students favour group work and pair work. This paper also suggests ways to effectively use group work in order to enhance students’ positive attitudes to group work and development of orally communicative competence. The research paper includes areas such as learning styles, attitudes to group work, methods of teaching, and techniques of group work organization. A review of the literature related to group work areas helps the researcher to support the arguments and to write about the findings. The “study” section describes samples, data collection, data analysis and a brief discussion of difficulties in conducting the research.​

INTRODUCTION​

We use language as a means of communication in daily situations. It is necessary for us to state our opinions and express our feeling. English is used as an international language. Many people in Vietnam need to use it as a communicative tool at work, on business and in commercial environments. It is recognised by learners that the main focus of learning English as a foreign language is their communicative competence. The more opportunities students are given to practise oral interaction in the classroom, the more effectively and fluently they can communicate in real-life situations.

Therefrore, as a teacher of English, in order to promote oral communication in the classroom, there are a number of things I can do: effective classroom management, dynamic learning activities and productive teaching and learning approach.

In considering effective classroom management, many teachers in my school experience that the benefits of group work and pair work are not recognized by the students. A majority of the students are resistant to group work and pair work because they think that group work is a waste of time and they are just interested in working alone, translating or learning vocabulary and grammar. In improving the teaching and learning of English, there are many innovations to be introduced. The most important of them is to use pair work and group work in the classroom whose benefits are to promote classroom interaction which can facilitate second language acquisition, to personalize the learning process and to increase the students’ responsibilities for these own learning.

As an attempt to improve the teaching and learning of English, especially English for communication, I conducted this small scale research project which took two months, from 1st December , 2011 to 15th February, 2012.