Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm Organizing English Club to develop the communication skill for the grade 10 students at Quynh Luu 4 high school

 CONTENTS 
PART 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 4 
 1. The reasons of selecting the topic ...................................................................... 4 
 2. The novelty of the topic ..................................................................................... 5 
 3. Research purposes .............................................................................................. 6 
 4. Object and scope of the study ............................................................................ 6 
 5. Research mission ................................................................................................ 6 
 6. Research Methods .............................................................................................. 6 
PART II. CONTENT ................................................................................................ 6 
 1.Theoretical background ....................................................................................... 6 
 1.1 What is communication? .............................................................................. 6 
 1.2 The concept of communication skills ........................................................... 7 
 1.3 Communicative activities.............................................................................. 8 
 1.4 The role and meaning of English club in improving communication among 
 students ................................................................................................................ 9 
 2. Practical background .......................................................................................... 9 
 2. 1 Current situation in speaking English among students at high schools....... 9 
 2.2 Current status of organizing English club activities at high schools .......... 11 
 2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of carrying out organizing English club 
 activities to develop communication skill. ....................................................... 12 
 2.4 Organizing activities in the club to improve communication ability for 
 students at Quynh Luu 4 High School .............................................................. 12 
 2.5 The principle when organizing English club .............................................. 13 
 2.6 Some activities using to enhance communication skills in English club ... 14 
 3. Methodology .................................................................................................... 16 
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 PART 1. INTRODUCTION 
1. The reasons of selecting the topic 
 English, the most common language, is used in almost every field of life. 
Therefore, teaching students how to speak English fluently is a global duty. As 
teachers, and having taught English as a foreign language for many years. We 
realize that students have difficulty in communicating with others although they 
have studied English for ages and equipped with full grammatical points and 
vocabularies system. It is indicated that teachers have still been applying to 
traditional methods of teaching speaking and organizing poor activities while 
having the information revolution and availability of all technology resources, 
along with efficient facilities to conduct educational activities. In education 
system, most of every school is provided with modern high applications and 
students have already been approached to groupwork or teamwork skill. This must 
be an advantaged condition to organize many speaking learning activities to 
enhance students’ communication at high school. 
 Nevertheless, as far as we know, it seems that few studies speaking about 
either teaching speaking experience or practicing investigating the effectiveness of 
a speaking learning program on developing speaking skill at high schools. 
Therefore, we wrote this speaking learning experience which can be used to 
improve and encourage students' communication abilities. This study suggests 
teachers and students the opportunity to apply organizing English club in various 
ways to develop speaking English process in authentic solution. The findings of 
this experience might encourage educational leaders to reconsider organizing 
English club for schools to create effective learning environments inside the 
classroom which illustrates the implementation of this study. 
 In the age of industrialization, modernization, and globalization, with being 
supported information technology and the Internet, speaking English well is 
becoming a critical requirement for any individual who has tendency to catch up 
with the dramatic transformation and harsh elimination of society. However, 
teaching and learning speaking is in a vicious circle with ineffective accompanied 
by inappropriate direction and not simple mission for both teachers and learners. 
We notice the difficulties and conduct the present study derives from students' poor 
educational report in speaking skill, in test results, shortage of stimulus as well as 
passive, hesitant, and apathetic involvement in class. Besides prevalent opinions of 
many teachers, this document was recorded through English exam-marking 
experiences and consultation with English supervisors and organizers as well. 
 With the demand of society, the development in economy, today, it is obvious 
that almost every company is compulsory their staff speaking many foreign 
languages smoothly or at least is English; From the reality, our preoccupation is 
how to improve speaking skill for our students, or how to create a real inspiration 
to help students actively participate in the speaking activity with the least pressure 
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3. Research purposes 
 The purpose of this study is to organize the effectiveness of English club 
activities on improving and developing the Quynh Luu 4 tenth graders' English 
communication skills. The study aims at answering the following questions: 
 1. Are there any differences in students' achievement scores in speaking 
 ability between the experimental and the control groups? 
 2. To what extent does organizing English club activities develop students' 
 overall performance in communication skill in the experimental group? 
 3. To what extent do students, under the influence of organizing English club 
 activities, improve communication skill within speech? 
 4. To what extent does organizing English club activities improve students’ 
 performance in using English in communication? 
 5. To what extent does organizing English club activities help improve 
 students' performance in using fluently grammatical and vocabular accuracy? 
4. Object and scope of the study 
 The study was going to be conducted at Quynh Luu 4 high school for all 
members at 10th grade in English speaking club. They are in fairly good and 
advanced students from all 10 grade and we would apply this method in organizing 
English club activities to develop their communication skill and the possible 
solutions; school year 2022 - 2023. 
 5. Research mission 
 This study aims at organizing various effective activities at English club to 
develop communication skills. 
6. Research Methods 
 The study used the experimental approach to analyze the data, and verify 
the results of organizing English club activities in enhancing students' speaking 
abilities. 
PART II. CONTENT 
1.Theoretical background 
1.1 What is communication? 
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 Different styles of communication are appropriate in different situations. To make 
the best use of your communication skills, it’s important to consider your audience 
and the most effective format to communicate with them. 
1.3 Communicative activities 
Communicative activities include any activities that encourage and require a 
learner to speak with and listen to other learners, as well as with people in the 
program and community. Communicative activities have real purposes: to find 
information, break down barriers, talk about self, and learn about the culture. Even 
when a lesson is focused on developing reading or writing skills, communicative 
activities should be integrated into the lesson. Furthermore, research on second 
language acquisition (SLA) suggests that more learning takes place when students 
are engaged in relevant tasks within a dynamic learning environment rather than in 
traditional teacher-led classes (Moss & Ross-Feldman, 2003). 
Benefits of Communicative Activities 
Some immigrants, such as parents, elders, or people who work in isolated 
environments (like housekeepers and babysitters) may feel lonely and experience 
depression or have low self-esteem. They may begin to feel that they will never 
learn English or never feel comfortable in the United States. Offering well-
designed and well-executed communicative activities can help turn the English 
classroom into an active, safe, and enjoyable place where literacy- and beginning-
level learners can learn what they need and want to learn. 
Challenges 
Most English language learners have had access to some schooling in their native 
countries. Their school was probably very teacher-directed. Learners were 
expected to be quiet and listen to the teacher and then, when asked, to respond to 
the teacher in unison with the one correct answer. Because of this, some adult 
English language learners may be initially disconcerted when their English teacher 
begins asking them to get up and move around, work in pairs or groups, and talk to 
one another. It also may be difficult for learners to realize that there can be more 
than one correct response to a question and many ways to ask a question. However, 
many, if not most, learners adapt and prosper with increased interactivity and 
independence. 
Sample Activities 
The following activities provide opportunities for interaction and communication: 
Activity 1: Class Survey 
Activity 2: Conversation Grid 
Activity 3: Line Dialogue 
Activity 4: Information Gap 
Activity 5: Language Experience Approach 
Activity 6: Games 
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 this situation, at the beginning of the school year 2022-2023, we conducted a 
survey on 400 students of grade 10 to get information to verify the reality of the 
problem to have an effective direction to help them develop their own language 
and communication skills. According to the survey, the percentage of students 
achieving average or outstanding English scores in the entrance exams at Quynh 
Luu 4 High School only accounts for about 30% of the 10th grade enrollment. In 
particular, the ability of their communication by English is weak, even many of 
them cannot speak a complete sentence. Quynh Luu 4 High School’s students are 
mainly children in mountainous area, they are still timid, not active, afraid of 
mistakes, passive in practice. This is due to many different reasons, partly because 
the number of students in each class is more than 40 students and the speaking 
time is only 45 minutes, which means that the time is not enough for students to 
have the opportunity to practice a lot. Others, in the classroom, students are still 
dependent on textbooks where the content is not always close and enjoyable for 
them, so the results of these lessons are often not as good as expected. Many 
students cannot write and speak English fluently, or do not know how to use any 
word in the right context as well as in real situations, even good students are shy 
and lack of confidence. Moreover, even if students have talents, if they do not have 
the time and active communication environment, it is difficult to arouse students' 
interest in communication. As a certain result, without having a positive, 
interesting, close-to-student topics, and a real environment, it is impossible to 
motivate students to use English in the right way. 
From the above detail numbers and reasons, it becomes more urgent to use the club 
form to practice communication skills and develop English ability for students. 
After the announcement of club membership registration, there were 156 
applications from 10th grade students. To assess students' knowledge before 
joining the English club, we conducted a survey and monitor students' listening, 
speaking, reading and writing skills. Along with information through survey 
questionnaires and information obtained through several small talks, observations 
were added to these main sections to support the results. And the result is as 
follows: 
Table 1: Results of the English language quality survey of club students at 
the beginning of the school year 2022 - 2023 (156 members) 
 Speaking Listening Writing Reading 
 Number % Number % Number % Number % 
Excellent 16 10.3 19 12.2 23 14.7 31 19.9 
Good 25 16.0 29 18.6 31 19.9 35 22.4 
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