VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI
UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT

NGUYỄN MINH HẠNH SOME COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE
SPEAKING SKILLS FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES
AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS (TEFL)


1.1 An overview of speaking activities in language teaching and learning 5
1.1.1 The nature of speaking in oral communication 5
1.1.2 The role of speaking in language teaching and learning 6
1.1.3 Characteristics of a successful speaking lesson 6
1.1.3.1 High learner’s talking time 6
1.1.3.2 High motivation 7
1.1.3.3 Even participation 7
1.1.3.4 An acceptable level of language 8
1.2 Communicative activities in language teaching and learning process 8
1.2.1 Definition of communicative activities 8
1.2.2 Characteristics of communicative activities 9
1.2.3 The roles of communicative activities in language teaching and learning 10
iv 1.2.4 The roles of teachers in communicative activities 11
1.2.5 Types of communicative activities 12
CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY
2.0 Research questions 15
2.1 Research setting 15
2.1.1 An overview English Department – ULIS - VNU 15
2.1.2 Teachers of English Division I 15
2.1.3 The students 16
2.1.4 The syllabus 16
2.1.5 Current situation of teaching and learning English speaking at EDI 16
2.2 Research approach 17
2.3 Subjects 18
2.4 Data collection instrument 18
2.5 Procedures 19
2.6 Method of data analysis 19

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