Designing a supplementary speaking material for the first year non-English major at Tuyen Quang College = Thiết kế giáo trình bổ trợ dạy kỹ năng nói cho sinh viên không chuyên Anh năm thứ nhất trường Cao đẳng Tuyên Quang.

• Main Author: Lương, Thị Hải Hà
• Other Authors: Dương, Thị Nụ
• Language: Vietnamese
• Published: University of Languages and International Studies 2017
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/41043
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This minor thesis was conducted in an attempt to investigate the gaps between the speaking tasks offered in the course book “Lifelines” (Pre-intermediate) and the non-Englishmajorstudents’ demand at Tuyen Quang College, in the hope of designing a suitable supplementary material to teach speaking skills to suit students’ level. In the study, two instruments (survey questionnaires and interviews) were employed to achieve the purposes of the study. The subjects involved in this study were 100 students, coming from Nursery and Primary Department. They were invited to participate in the survey questionnaires.Besides, five teachers of English agreed to join the study to support the researcher better her research. It can be said that the course book “Lifelines” (Pre-intermediate) by Tom Hutchinson (2006) does not really meet the students’ needs. Although the speaking topics are familiar to students, there are not various types of speaking activities. Moreover, the course book does not supply enough vocabulary items and grammatical structures related tothespeaking topics.Based on the findings, thestudents prefer to have a supplement speaking material which provides them with furtherpractice invocabulary, grammar as well as speaking. Therefore, it is necessary to design a supplementary speaking material to suit students’ level. It is said that this supplementary speaking material can supply more language knowledge for the students and it can be a useful material for them to study speaking skills better