USING GROUP DISCUSSION TO IMPROVE THE EFL STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS AT DONG NAI TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM

Autores

  • Le Thi Hanh Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dong Nai Technology University, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam
  • Nguyen Van Duc Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dong Nai Technology University, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v6i1.4252

Palavras-chave:

group discussion, speaking class, Dong Nai Technology University

Resumo

The research was conducted by the teacher as a writer of the study at Dong Nai Technology University. The study was carried out by using group discussion with two aims. They are: (1) to investigate the EFL students’ attitudes towards group discussion in their speaking classes and (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of applying group discussion activity in English speaking classes. The results of the study show that group discussion activity helped increase most of the students’ motivation in speaking lessons. Moreover, the findings of the study also indicated that after using group discussion activity in speaking lessons, the number of students getting GPA from B to A+ increased significantly with the rate from 35% to 63,33%. The researchers’ expectation was resulted by using group discussion activity in improving the students' speaking proficiency.

 

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Biografias do Autor

  • Le Thi Hanh, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dong Nai Technology University, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam

    Le Thi Hanh is a lecturer of English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dong Nai Technology University, Dong Nai province, Vietnam. She earned her English Language Master’s Degree at the Graduate Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests include teaching methodology and applied linguistics.

  • Nguyen Van Duc, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dong Nai Technology University, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam

    Nguyen Van Duc has been teaching English for 8 years. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dong Nai Technology University, Vietnam. He has got a Master’s Degree in TESOL from Laguna State Polytechnic University, Philippines. His research interests are teaching methodology and education innovations.

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2022-04-23

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Vol. 6 N.º 1 (2022)

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