Using Discussion Activities To Improve The Efl Students’ Speaking Skills At Dong Nai Technology University

Le Thi Hanh

Abstract


  The study was written based on the research done by the writer as a teacher at Dong Nai Technology University. The study was carried out by using discussion activities with two aims. They are: (1) to investigate the EFL students’ attitudes towards discussion activities in their speaking classes and (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of discussion activities applied to English speaking skill teaching and learning. 

The results of the study show that discussion activities helped increase most of the students’ motivation in speaking lessons. In addition, the findings of the study also reveal that after using discussion activities in speaking lessons, some of the students could improve their scores in the post-test. Although there was not too much change, it was proved that discussion activities played a certain role in improving the students' speaking proficiency.


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Discussion Activities, Speaking Class, Dong Nai Technology Universsity

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v26.2.3039

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