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Project Title:How to Improve Students Speaking Ability More Effectively InvestigatorWang Meihong AcknowledgmentI am mostly grateful to my supervisor Ms.Yin without whose support and patience this project would not even have got off the ground.I am also grateful to my colleagues Huang guping ,Jiang meichun ,Tang Xinxia for their time spent on brainstorming and visiting my class and panel discussions with me.No amount of thanks will be adequate for my students without whose willing participation in the project implementation would have remained on paper.Last but not least, big thanks go my family who have shared with me my worries, frustrations, and my ultimate happiness in eventually finishing this project.AbstractAs everyone knows, the classroom teaching is one of the most important ways that the students learn English. As far as the English teaching in the middle schools is concerned, teachers have to arouse the students interests so that they can learn better. There are many ways to arouse the students interests and help them to learn better, speaking teaching is one of them. Ths study presents a detailed report of a project implemented to foster students motvaton in Englsh learnng. . I have adopted various teachings, such as group work、pair work、personal work、role play、retell the text and discussion in class.This hypothesis is verified by a four-week practice of well-organized English class. Among the methods of scientific investigation used are the analytic method, cause analysis and brainstorming activation.Key words: speakng, design, interest, abilityMain Headings of the Project Report1. Introduction2. Summary of the Preliminary Research2.1 Problem2.2 Project objective 2.3 Problem analysis2.4 Project hypothesis2.5 Project rationale3. Spesking Teaching Design4. Control and Target Groups5.Project Implementation6.Data Analysis7.Project Evaluation8.Conclusion9.Key wordsReferencesAppendixesA. Questionnaire on Reading PracticeB. The Timetable of the ProjectC. Audio-RecordingHow to Improve Students Speakng Ability More Effectively1IntroductionI am an English teacher in NO.1 middle school in Emin.Ive been teaching for five years in school in my teaching, I have found some problems that have puzzlled me for a long time .now Ill end up my studying in xin jiang TV university. I hope I can solve the problem through the action research.The problem is that some of my students dont like speaking English in my class.Many of students who have learned English for five years are still unable to speak everyday English fluently.when I ask them some questions about the weather ,traveling and their hobbies,most of them say，Im sorry. I cant ” few students can answer the easy questions. In the English class, if I ask them to make a dialogue in pairs or retell a passage,lots of studets always keep silent or even dare not look at me. But it is common that many students who are bad speakers of English can write English perfectly. This proves that they are lack of practice and confidence. They are afraid that other students might find out their mistakes and will laugh at them. So they dont want to open their mouth to speak English. The less they speak, the worse they feel. Day after day, year after year, their English become “mute english”. If you cant speak English , how can you communicate with the foreigners? How can you go abroad or study or do scholarly research?I hope I can solve it better that how to improve students speaking ability through the action research so that I can apply my knowledge and theory into practice.2.Summary of the Preliminay ResearchThis part of my study was conducted during December4,2011-March, 2012.2.1 ProblemThe problem is based on my teaching experience. That is: Most of my students do not like speakng and their ability of speakng in class arent high.2.2 Project objective How to improve students speaking ability more effectively.2.3 Problem analysisThe problem is based on my teaching experience. That is: Most of my students do not like speakng and their ability of speakng in class arent high.In my teachng the problem identified was really a serious problem.In my study , first use cause anal.1. It is found that a. Those poor learners report that due to their lack of vacabulary cannot follow the teacher in class.and many tmes cant complete the tasksb. Some good students report that vocabulary instruction tends to be so mechanimal practice, in which the students were asked to read and re-read. Write and re-write the new words and expressions that deprved the students of their motivation.c. Quite a number of students report that they are afraid of being criticized that thus withdraw from classroom activities.d. The teacher failed to give instruction clearly2. possible solutionsTaking the above factor into consideration, the following solutons were proposed a. Employng interesting speaking English to help the students understand and leard new knowledge.b. Oganizing interestng activities to motivate the students to memorize the words and review the texts.c. Greatng to comfortable safe classroom atmosphere and a good teacher student relationship.4.Project objectiveThis project is aimed to motivate the students in Englsh learning through speaking Englsh. 5.Project Hypotheses It is Hypothessized that students will do speaking activties by better-desgned teaching.Such as the group work ,pair work ,personal work. Role play and discusson,etc.6.Project RationaleAfter Ive read English Language Teaching Methodology (Part I and Part), I found its very helpful. The unit on speaking is particularly useful. After some reading and thinking, I have worked out four reasons on which my project will be based. They are-(1)The role of the teacherStudents realize that the teacher has many roles in the classroom, not just that of evaluator. I would like to demonstrate these different roles so that students realize when she takes only a minor helping role. I would like students to get used to being responsible for their own learning and not depend on the teacher all the time. In oral English teaching, I should ask the learners to speak more and more and encourage them to greet communicate and discuss in English each other. It is very important for the learners. But drills, dialogues and practices are also important. I hope teacher should be different roles in different steps. When the students drill the English, the teacher is organizer she should arrange the class how to drill. For example, ripple drill, back chaining and chain drill. When the students practice the dialogue, the teacher should be a manager or listener.(2) The rote of the studentsI would like the students to feel that learning is a collaborative endeavour and not a competitive one. They should come to realize that they can learn from each other and help each other, especially in speaking as it is not a skill they can practice on their own. It is very difficult for someone to speak English very loudly and frequently. the students are afraid of speaking English, the main reason might be that they are not self-confident or they are not sure of themselves, their pronunciation, their grammar, etc. In order to solve the problem, they can go to English corner or find some English speaking partners to speak English in or around the English class. (3) the role of speaking in class and its purpose I would like to give speaking the purpose of communication, making it as close to real life as possible. Classroom speech is not to be judged as performance, but has the role of practicing fore role life communication. This means that the students should feel relaxed and free about speaking to their peers has a purpose and does not have to be evaluated by the teacher all the time. The emphasis should shift from accuracy to fluency, In this way, let the students fully express their opinions, then the aims of practicing spoken English can be easily solved. (4) the type of classroom tasks used I think all of above can be dealt with by designing and using appropriate tasks in the lesson. Students have to search information-gap task, which require them to gain information to their partner by listening and responding adequately to questions. I feel they can be shown the value of communicating with their peers.Based on the rationale, I am going to use new senior English for china students book as the communicative material. New task are to be designed with the aim of providing students with the chance to be creative and express themselves freely. Since it is a large class, I must pay attention to the following factors while designing the tasks: a)give clear instruction, b) rich students c) control the noise, d) monitor the students practice, e) use various tasks types to arouse the students interest.TitleUnit3 Why do you like koaloas?Teaching aims Knowledge aims1.Master the key words, phrases and sentence structures.2. Understand the meaning of the text.Ability aimsImprove the students speaking abilityFeeling aimsMake ss feel easy and funny to learn english Teaching importanceImprove the students speakinging ability.Teaching difficultiesKnow how to understand the meaning of the textTeaching methods1. group work Teaching toolsRadio,picture,and blackboardTeaching stepsStep1: Greeting Step2. Warm-upThe teacher brings a map of zoo to the class,then ask a few questions like belowDo you like animals?Can you name some annimals?Can you guess what they are?Step3. presentationMatch the abimals picture with the words1. look and findlook at animal pictures. What are they in english?Make sure the answers are correct.Finish the exercises on the bookAsk some students to answer their questions in classCheck the answerStep4. practice Task1 conversationsFind your best friends to make some conversationsYou can use these words: cute,interesting, fun , smart .y ou can use these sentence: do you like ?Why do you like .?Because.Lets seeStep5consolidation and post tasks1. do a survey2. grammar focuswhy do you like pandas? Because they are very cute.Why do you like koalas? Because they are kind of interesting.Step6. summatyaccording to the knowledge aims to summaryStep7. homework1. write new words and sentences2. make a dialoge TitleUnit4 I want to be an actor.Teaching aims Knowledge aims1.Master the new words, phrases and sentence structures.2. Understand the meaning of the text.3. learn something about jobs.Ability aimsImprove the students speaking abilityFeeling aimsAcrouse the studentss feeling that they can be Interesting in english .Teaching importance1. Talk about jobs.2. students can ask and answer about jobs 3. Improve the students reading ability.Teaching difficultiesImprove the students reading ability.Teaching methods1. warming up to arouse the studentsinteret in jobs2. listening activity to improve the studentslistening comprehension.3. pair work . group work to make every student work in class.Teaching toolscomputerTeaching stepsStep1: Greeting Step2. how some pictures about the name of places. Then ask some questions to lead in .What is this? Its a store.Wihat can you see? I can see a sweater.What color is it? Its green.Learn the new sentence patterns.What is your father?2.tell the students another way of asking jobs.What does you father do?3.show the title and teach the words aboutStep3. Warm-up (speaking)Use the questions to make some dialoges.Teacher can show pictures about jobs and ask some students to make some conversations.Step4. learn the new words.Step5 Listening practiceListen to the recording on page 19 carefully three times and number the people 1-3 in the picture.Then ask and answer questions about t.he pictures in 2a.Step6. pair work 1. get students to look at the pictures in the book and ask them to work in pairs.2. new sentencewhat do you want to be?What does he/she want to be?Step7. show and explain the language points.Practice we have learned.Step8. grammar focusLeard the sentences in the boxStep9. SummaryWords and phrases,sentenceStep10. HomeworkPractice the dialogue according the picture on page 19.TitleUnit 5 Im watching TV.Teaching aims Knowledge aims1.Master the key words, phrases and sentence structures.2. Understand the meaning of the text.Ability aimsImprove the students speaking abilityFeeling aims.make them be interesting in english.They can speaking english.Teaching importanceImprove the students speaking ability.Teaching difficultiesKnow how to understand use the present progressive tenseTeaching methods2. Personal work, pair work, group work to make every student work in class.3. Asking and answering, expository teaching, discussion method, practice method and so on.Teaching toolsMultimediaTeaching stepsStep1: Greeting Step2. Warm-up1. brainstorm2. lead in new lessonStep3. presentation and pre-tasks1. name the activities2. memory challenges3. know the sentencesask some students to summarize the present participles of the verbs.Step4. practice and task-cycle1.talk about what the famous people are doing2. matching game.3. the best listenerAfter listening .the teacher can explain some importance phrase. Such as want to go to The movies.that sounds good ,TV show .boring and so on.4. role playConsolidation and post-tasks1. guessing game 2,summary at the end of the class , lets chant. You can practice it after class.What are you doing?Im reading. Reading, reading, reading.Whats she doing?She is cleaning.cleaning ,cleaning,cleaning.Step5 homework1. remember the new words and phrase.2. make some dialoge about your family what they are doing.TitleUnit 7. what does he look like?Teaching aims Knowledge aims1.Master the key words, phrases and sentence structures.2. Understand the meaning of the text.Ability aimsImprove the students speaking abilityFeeling aimsKnow how to talk about the peoples appearanceTeaching importanceImprove the students speaking ability.Teaching difficultiesKnow how to use what look like?Ask peoples appearance.Teaching methods4. Personal work, pair work, group work to make every student work in class.5. Asking and answering, expository teaching, discussion method, practice method and so on.Teaching toolsMultimediaTeaching stepsStep1: Greeting Step2. Warm-upand revisionTask1: tug-of-warQne student is tall and fat , the other is short and thinLet one of students in the class reports to the class and lead in heavy,tall,thin,short.2,words and their usageDescrib the pictures using the words you have learned.review the words one by one.Step3. presentation and pre-tasks1. new words.(show a picture of an actress)2. match the words with the people.3. ask and answer the following questions.Who is all?Who is heavy?Who has long hair?Step4. practice1. use these questions to make some conversation.What does he look like?What does she look like ?She is He is .2.listening practicePlay the record and let the students find amys friend in the picture 1a.3.who is your best friend?What do they look like?Step4.summaryReview the grammar focus .You can discuss with your partnessStep5. homework1. write the new words.2. write one of your best friends appearances.7.Research DesignSubject7.1 For this research , I chose the two class of my students as subjects.One as the experimental group ,the other as the control group. Throughout the project. The experimental group will receive special designed speaking english instruction. While the control group goes on with its routine instruction.Procedure7.2 this project last two months7.3. teachnigues for data collectionDuring this research two teachniques were adopted. Namely questionaire and test. To gather information for the design of the research and to test whether the research is effective.8.Project Implementation.It took me four weeks to implement my project. For each week I was scheduled to do these Questionnaire (see Appendix a) timetable (see Appendix b Audio-recorder (see Appendixc)The tasks all occurred in target group of my class 7, Grade 7 of Middle School. And my control group is in class8 Grade 7 of Middle School. The target students showed their great interest in the designed group work and they enjoyed my practicing requirement.9 Data AnalysisAfter four weeks action, I found that the target group is much better than the control group. I think the improvement is mainly due to these factors: Providing very tasks with peers, and checking theirspeaking tasks every time.But I also found that a few students did not do their speaking homework. This implies that I should find out some other reasons to account for this fact, and try to solve the problem more thoroughly.9.1 queston1: the attitude towards the English lesson.In both questionaires. The students were requested to answer questions.Concerning their interest in Englsh lessons. It is found that 17% of them were afraid of English before the implementation of the research . while only 5%of them had the same idea after it.from table1 .we can see more clearly that the students feeling changed