- Aims of the study. - Scope of the study. - Significance of the study. - Outline of the study. - Subjects of the study. - Data analysis of the students’ experiment questionnaires. - Limitations of the study:. - LIST OF GRAPHS Graph 1: Students’ opinions of the importance of English grammar for language learning. - Graph 5 : Factors influence students’ attitudes towards grammar learning. - It’s difficult for teachers to finish their teaching successfully because of the time constraint, the large class size, and the students’ mixed level. - This gives an overview of the study including the study background. - This provides a brief description of the thesis topic and information related to English grammar teaching and learning atTNH Upper Secondary School. - Conclusion This provides the summary of the findings, some recommendations on how to teach English grammar through oral practice at Tran Nguyen Han High School. - The conclusion and limitation of the study will also be presented in this . - Otherwise, negative attitudes of the listeners will be formed if the communication is unccessful and unattractive. - The first of these is the interest of the communicator of a message. - Therefore, depending on some theories of attitude change, the author decided to follow the Hovland’s view (1973) “Attitudes change as a response to communication’’ with the fully hope that the findings of the study will be the certain application of oral grammar practice in teaching and learning at TNH High School. - Nunan (2007) agees that oral grammar practice gives learners increasing opportunities and motivation to interact with other communicators, to raise their awareness of the forms and functions of English grammar. - RESPONSE: The owner of the villa is a famous doctor. - A series of sentences in the native language is given to elicit rapid formulation of the English equivalents. - One of the problems, as mentioned earlier, about drills is that they are fairly monotonous. - Games can be an integrated part of the teaching syllabus. - towards English grammar learning ? 3.3. - The subjects of the study were 200 students from class 10 C1,C2,C3,C4 at Tran Nguyen Han High School. - In addition to this, their lack of awareness of the importance of English as well as their teachers’ teaching method leads to their negative attitudes towards learning English. - The questions focus on students’ awareness of the importance of grammar, students’ interests in grammar learning as well as their comment on grammar teaching.. - Week 15 : Post- treatment questionnaire and post- treatment interview After the application of oral grammar practice, the post – treatment questionnaire and interview were given to the same 200 students of the 4 experimental classes to identify changes in the students’ attitudes towards English grammar learning 3.6. - Data analysis of the students’ experiment questionnaires 4.1.1.1. - Graph 1: Students’ opinion of the importance of English grammar for language learning.. - Only 2.5% of the students have opposite ideas with that point of view. - Thus, the majority of the students realizes the importance of English grammar in their language learning.. - 6.5% of the students have the other ideas.. - 97.5% of the students asked say that English grammar learning at school is boring and 95.5% of the students consider learning English grammar at school stressful. - Graph 5: Factors influence students’ attitudes towards grammar learning.. - 90% of the students state that English teachers’ proficiency and rich knowledge also influence the students’ attitudes towards grammar learning. - Only 10% of the students disagree with this idea. - The majority of the students (85%) report the suitability of the syllabus for English grammar is one of the factors which influence students’ attitudes towards grammar learning . - In contrast, the minority of the students (15%) disagree with this point. - More than half of the students (55%) disagree that difficult English grammar may influence their attitudes towards grammar learning. - When asked about their opinions of English grammar teaching at school, 70% of the students disagree that the teaching English grammar at school is suitable, only 30% of them agree with that idea. - Only 27.5% of the students agree that it is motivating, 22.5% of them think it is effective. - 100% of the students report their teachers explain the rules of new English grammar structures in English.75% of the students reveal that they are rarely given examples of new structures, 25% of them say they never use this technique. - It’s no surprise to know that 100% of the students say their teachers never apply the two techniques “give situations in which the structure is used” and “use structure to talk about the real situation in the classroom or Ss’ life”.. - 93.5% of the students report they often do written grammar exercises in textbook or workbook. - Only 6.5% of the students report they sometimes do written grammar exercises in textbook and workbook. - 88.5% of the students state they sometimes do written grammar exercises outside textbook and workbook. - It’s quite surprising to see that 100% of the students report they never do grammar practice orally. - Graph 9: Students’ expectations.. - Graph 9 illustrates that 100% of the students would feel happy if the teachers change the teaching methods and techniques in presenting and practising new grammar structures. - It indicates that the current grammar teaching methods and techniques in presenting and practising new grammar structures of the teachers are very boring and not suitable.. - 90% of the students think games should be introduced in the grammar lessons. - None of the students has other ideas.. - The survey results in the questionnaire indicate that 95% of the students got involved in practising oral grammar very often, only 5% of them say they often did this. - 88% of the students asked say that they they don’t like grammar practice to be organized individually at all in their lessons, 12% of them say “not very much”. - 82% of the students like it to be organized in groups very much, 16% of them choose “OK” column, only 1% rank “not very much” and 1% also rank at the degree of “ not at all”. - When asked if the students have any difficulties when doing grammar practice orally, 90% of the students answer “no”, only 10% of the students find doing grammar practice orally difficult. - 10% of them think it makes the class noisy, 7.5% of the students feel embarrassed, 5% of them feel scared. - With the new way of teaching English grammar applied in grammar lessons over the last 12 weeks, 100% of the students agree that oral grammar practice is interesting and relaxing, 95% of the students think it is motivating, 90% of them think it is useful. - Specifically, 100% of the students say that it helps them understand and memorize grammar structures very much, 90% appreciate its enjoyableness very much, 7% find it OK. - The largest number of the students (87%) rank the option “d” at “very much”, 10% choose “OK” column, only 3% choose “not at all”. - Showing reference in oral grammar practice, 99% of the students wish to continue getting involved in oral grammar practice in their grammar lessons in the coming time, only 1% of the students have opposite ideas. - Only small amount of the students (9%) think they wouldn’t prefer to continue getting involved in oral grammar practice in their grammar lessons in the coming time just because they don’t have to take final oral grammar test. - In pre- experiment questionnaire, 97.5% of the students report that English grammar is necessary for their language learning, and the same amount of students admit that learning grammar at their school is boring. - 95.5% of the students say it is stressful. - When thinking of the teaching English grammar at their school, 70% of the students reveal that it is not suitable. - And all of the students state that they often do written grammar exercises in textbook. - In contrast, in pre- experiment questionnaire, 100% of the students say they find pair works or group works, communicative games the most interesting and useful. - 99% of the students would prefer to continue getting involved in oral English grammar practice in their grammar lessons in the coming time.In conclusion, thanks to oral grammar practice, students’ attitudes changed positively. - The full transript of the interview was given in Appendix. - Students’ awareness of the importance of grammar. - Students’ attitudes towards grammar learning. - Nearly 88% of the respondents strongly agree that grammar learning in class was boring. - 33.3% of the students report that “Grammar lessons go on in the same way. - Students’ opinion of the syllabus.. - They want to leave grammar lessons out of the course although they are all aware of the importance of grammar. - Students’ expectations.. - Students’ assessment of oral grammar practice. - It is interesting to find out that most of the students (89%) have positive attitudes towards English oral grammar practice applied in English grammar lessons. - I like learning English more.” Most students have positive assessment of the effects of using communicative activities in grammar lessons. - Oral grammar practice has changed positively students’ attitudes towards grammar. - They often feel bored and sleepy while doing a lot of written exercises.90% of the students say that they dislike sitting in silence to do exercises. - 100% of the students preffer the new way of teaching. - Students’ favourite grammar practice activities. - 100% of the students asked like communicative games in class. - Based on the result of the data collection and analysis in the previous section, this discussion focuses on the students’ initial attitudes and students’ attitude change towards grammar learning. - Oral grammar practice has changed positively students’ attitudes towards grammar learning. - Therefore, students were often under pressure of fulliling their work.Secondly, after the application of oral grammar practice, students’ attitudes have changed.In post-experiment questionnaire, 100% of the students strongly agree that oral grammar practice in English grammar lessons is very interesting and useful to students. - 90% of the students confirm that oral grammar practice makes English grammar lessons more lively, interesting and stimulates them to learn English. - Thirdly,the major findings of the pre- interview are coincided with the pre-questionnaire with the idea that students kept initial negative attitudes towards grammar learning. - The percentage number of the students in the pre-interview from 83% to 90% agree that they have to suffer from boring and stressful lessons and they think that it is necessary to have a change in grammar learning in the classroom. - In pre- experiment interview, we also understand in detail that 86% of the students have negative feelings about grammar learning. - At last, most of the students share the same ideas that it is necessary to have a change to turn negative attitudes into positive ones. - All things considered, it’s true that all of the students expect to have grammar learning with oral practice activities in the practice stage in the coming time.. - The discussion on the findings in the last section of this gives answers to the two research questions of the study. - The results of the experiment have made it possible to come to the following conclusion:. - Secondly, oral grammar practice increases students’ motivation. - Most of the students are more interested in and more attentive to learning grammar because they have comfortable and exciting learning environment.. - If you talk about your learning English grammar at your school, which of the following words most reflect your impression:. - The difficulty of the English grammar.. - The suitability of the syllabus.