speaking tasks in English 10 (The Old Version)
for the minority students at Yenbai Ethnic
Boarding High school

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hà

Trường Đại học Ngoại Ngữ
Luận văn ThS. Chuyên ngành: English Linguistics; Mã số: 60 22 15
Người hướng dẫn: Dr. Dương Thị Nụ
Năm bảo vệ: 2010

Keywords: Tiếng Anh; Kĩ năng nghe; Kĩ năng nói

Content:
PART I: INTRODUCTION
I.1. Rationale:
Vietnam is in the open-door period, moreover, from the November 2006, has become a
member of WTO, and so, English is getting more and more essential to Vietnamese people.
Being aware of this, Vietnamese students in general and students from Yen Bai Ethnic
Boarding High School have tried hard to study English better and better. However, English
teaching and learning have not been as effective as we expected. One of the reasons for those,
according to many teachers and students of English, is that the textbook “English 10” (the old
version), which is available for teaching and learning, is not always updated, realistic, and
appropriate to the context of an open-door policy and a market economy, even not interesting
enough to keep teachers and learners active during English lessons. Moreover, this textbook is
proved to lack flexibility, adaptation and linkage and reveals many shortcomings
As a teacher of English at Yen Bai Ethnic Boarding High School for 4 years, I find that
my students, especially the 10
th
grade ones, are quite bored with the tasks suggested in their
textbook “English 10”. Without adapted tasks proposed by teachers, English lessons may

School. The writer, then, worked with the data by combining different methods like analyzing,
synthesizing, comparing, etc. in order to draw out important findings.
In addition, five classes were chosen at random. Each class was asked to discuss five
questions in 15-20 minutes before giving the answers. The monitors then collected the answers
from the members in their classes and noted down the most common ones. These answers were
then reported to the writer in the post-discussion interview.
I.5. Scope of the study:
The study is limited to the data obtained from the survey questionnaires on the students
and teacher’s evaluation of the speaking tasks used for the 10
th
grade students on “English 10”
(the old version). Besides, they tended to find out their attitudes toward speaking task adaptation.
The responses from the participants were put as basis for suggested techniques of adapting
speaking tasks. Due to the limited time and the scope of a minor thesis, the questionnaires were
designed to mainly focus on evaluation. The study does not refer to how to teach speaking or
how to apply adapted tasks in teaching peaking. The aim of the study is to make speaking tasks
more practical and useful by creating more chances for students to communicate through adapted
tasks. By that way, students are more motivated to study and speaking topics are not separated
from real life contexts.
Conclusions and suggestions are mainly based on analysis data. However, with the
limited number of informants, the writer will only present her remarks, comments and
recommendations for appropriate techniques of adapting tasks for teaching speaking skill to the
10
th
grade students in YEBHS.
I.6. Organization of the study:
Part I: Introduction: This part provides an overview of the study with specific reference to
the rationale, the aims, scope, and the research method of the study.
Part II: Development includes three chapters, namely
Chapter I: The chapter explores relevant theoretical background for the thesis.

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