A study on students’ attitudes towards learning to speak English and their classroom speaking practices at Northern Water Resource College = Nghiên cứu thái độ của sinh viên đối với việc học nói tiếng Anh và việc thực hành nói trên lớp của họ tại trường C

• Main Author: Nguyễn, Thị Chúc Quỳnh, 1980-
• Other Authors: Mai, Thị Loan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: University of Languages and International Studies 2017
• Subjects: Tiếng Anh; Phương pháp giảng dạy; Kỹ năng nói; Giao tiếp
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/39844
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Attitude plays an important role in language acquisition and it helps explain linguistic behaviour. Learners may have positive or negative attitudes towards learning a language. Language attitude has great influence on language learning and acquisition as well as learners‟ choice and use of language. Besides, speaking is considered the most important skill that almost all the language learners want to master. However, not all language learners have positive attitude towards learning this skill. This thesis was carried out to investigate thestudents‟ attitudes towards learning to speak English and their classroom speaking practices at Northern Water Resource College. The data of the study were collected through a surveyquestionnaire which involved the participation of 100 randomly collected samples and four class observations. The data collected then were analyzed and generalized. The findings of the research revealed that the students hold a negative attitude towards learning to speak English. From the findings, some suggestions were given with the hope that they might be useful for the teachers at Northern Water Resource College to improve their students‟ English speaking skill.