PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1. The reasons of choosing topic
Nowadays, the economy of the countries in the world is growing,
exchanges in policy, culture, society are increasingly expanding among
countries.
To communicate with each other, requiring that different nations of the
world must know proficient use of a common language besides their mother
tongue.
In the languages of communication in the world, English is the most
common

language

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most

popular

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They can use it as their "mother tongue". However, to help students get what
they want to be effective, English teachers need to use their method appropriate

2. Learning experience from my colleagues
Attend the colleagues’ lesson to follow their good method.
3. Experimental matching method.
4. Observation method.
PART 2. CONTENT
2.1. Rationale
Through a lot of research material , as well as a combination of theory and
practice, we need to rely on the basis of the following reason:
Facing with a problem of teaching and learning that I think of figuring out a way
to teach phonics, and the work that I have written to teach phonics method in a
class. Teaching phonics to help students create language learning atmosphere of
pronouncing words correctly in English lessons. Much purpose of teaching
phonics in a language class is not intended to make students capable of
pronouncing similar to the native because it is not practical, unless the school
has a special talent and highly motivated. The goal is to teach phonics to help
students gain an ability to pronounce correctly at a certain level to be able to
communicate in English with other people. Phonics is a teaching method used to
help children learn to read. Phonics breaks down words into individual sounds
and syllables and shows children how each sound fits together to make up a
word. Children taught with phonics must learn the different vowel sounds,
consonants and regular rules of English grammar. Because the learner's native
language affects the pronunciation, English teachers need to have a certain
understanding of the sound system. Phonics helps your students learn to read
and spell. Without this ability, your child cannot be fully literate. Words are like
codes and phonics teaches children how to crack the reading code. Phonics is
therefore an important part of any reading development program. That is the
reason why Ministry of Education put on phonics lessons to Primary English.
2.2. The situation of the problem
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conducted a survey earlier this year to classify students The following table is
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the result of students in English in grade 3C at Minh Khai 2 primary school
Academic Year for 2016-2017.

RESULT BEFORE APPLYING THE RESEARCH IN TEACHING

Students
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Excellent

Average

Fail

3 students 9%

20 students 57%

12 students 34%

This table shows the number of students pronouce the words weakly
accounts for 34 percent. This is figure is comparatively high.The reasons may
come from students,teacher as well as the teaching facilities.
2.2.1. About students
In fact, in the process of learning a foreign language, students often focus
on learning grammar mainly because the test requires the application of

2.2.3. About the teaching facilities
My school has facilities of teaching and learning to meet the needs of
specific subjects such as: projectors, the modern teaching equipment like Robot
Teacher, Television, CD player, etc. So the application of teaching phonics is
quite effectively.
2.3. Solution and implementation
According to the present situation in English classes at my school, wrong
pronouncing still exists in all grades, especially in grade 3. To improve this
situation, I would like to present the defintion of phonics, some methods of
teaching phonics and elicit the stages of teaching phonics for primary student
which I have researched and applied quite successfully at my school.

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Why is pronunciation important?
Pronunciation is about so much more than accent! Many of the features
that play a role in pronunciation also are important in reading and writing.
* Understanding how to make specific sounds and how sounds are similar
helps with spelling and decoding (sounding out) unfamiliar words. This understanding
of phonetics can help teachers and parents understand kids' spelling and reading
errors, too.
* Understanding stress and intonation helps speakers be more
understandable. It also helps readers develop their reading fluency.
Stress and intonation make a big difference in comprehension! Not only
that, but they help us convey emphasis and feelings.
There has been much confusion over this term. Phonics is a method of
teaching beginners to read and pronounce words by learning to associate letters
or letter groups (graphemes or phonograms) with the sounds they represent
(phonemes). Students must learn to unravel the secrets of the code (in other

However, for children I usually use to teach pronunciation in a simply
way, especially for students in grade 3:
Listen and repeat. It needs to be noted that in the classroom, the correct
pronunciation of the teachers is not enough, it also needs the modern equipments
such as speakers, audio visual, and teacher’s showing the picture which describe
the possition of the tounge.
For example
In unit 2 . “p” is pronouced /p /

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Consonant /p/

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Introduction : is voiceless consonant sound which is created by two lips
(bilabial), power-on (flosive)
How to pronounce: the first upper and lower lips close and then open the
mouth slightly, turn inside out to create a sound / p /, pronounce fast:
Only consonants "p" is pronounced as / p / When it stands at the top of a
word, the end of a word or after.
In unit 5. I teach vowel “e”

Short vowel /æ/

Introduction : /æ/ is a short sound.
Open your mouth wide.
It's pronounced /æ/....../æ/.


*Reading. Practice makes perfect, so once you have taught the first six
sounds, introduce the students to captions and mini-stories that contain only the
sounds they have learnt so far, eg sit in “sit down”. The students will begin to
gain confidence and realize that they can read on their own.
In Unit 6.

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* Writing. Some sounds require extra teaching as they have multiple
graphemes. Sounds such as ‘c’, ‘s’ ‘cl’ and ‘st’ will require 3 or 4 separate input
sessions. Students will quickly begin to read words containing the three different
graphemes, but extra work will be required to help them determine when to
write each one. If you have mini-whiteboards, short dictations can help as can
activities that encourage the students sort and classify words according to
spelling.
In Unit 6.

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*Actions. If you are using a multi-sensory method where you introduce
the letter sounds accompanied by an action, this will aid students’ memories and
serve as a tool to help them read more difficult sounds. This way, instead of
reading the word for the students when they get stuck, use the action to remind
them of the sound to get them back on track.
*Review all the sounds you have taught before introducing a new one
Stick the grapheme cards you have introduced so far on the board and point to
each one in turn. Make sure the children are confident in making the sounds

PART 3. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
3.1. Conclusion
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Through teaching phonics for students in grade 3, I have summarized some
small experience and the results are very encouraging. The number of students
who read slowly, read poorly in class has dropped a lot students demonstrate
their learning very well. These classes are very eager to learn English, not bored
with learning. Clearly that many of them well vocally train. And the first step
to learning in English has prospered. It is also important for children to learn in
different parts of the program. Sometimes I use the phonics songs in my lessons
to make my lessons more lively and effectively. This experience is the best
method of instruction in English pronunciation that I boldly launch. I think
this is a very interesting problem in ordinary English. I look forward to the
comments of the teachers, to administration in the teaching process more.
3.2. Recommendations
3.2.1. To the leaders
To enhance the capacity of teachers in teaching English, the leaders
should organize the training courses for the English teachers regularly. Through
the training courses, teachers have the opportunity to exchange and learn their
experience.
3.2.2. To the teacher
- Being creative and active in teaching English, especially in teaching
pronunciation.
- The exercise allows clear practice in production and reception and gives
concise feedback to individual learners as well as where their problems lie in
these areas and how to repair them. Often these are very simple physical
questions such as not rounding the lips as in / u: / in fool , which the teacher can
help them focus on.

8. Cambridge University Press, 2007 Oxford Advanced Learners’
Dictionary, OUP 7th Edition.

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Tips for encouraging CPS to speak English. David F. Dalton. Academ

01.chs. itesm.mx. Chiapas.
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Oxford University Press.

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