| Abstract: | Among
four macro skills namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing,
learners have favored speaking because it is used frequently in daily
life. However, students still have been faced with difficulties in
learning speaking skills. Therefore, the study was conducted for the
purpose of offering group-work techniques, namely group discussion as a
key to improve speaking skills of the first-year students at Hanoi
University of Industry. This is a report on the study of using
group-work in order to improve speaking skills of the first-year
students at Hanoi University of Industry. The writer used action
research as the method in carrying out the research. It was done in four
steps, namely planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The data
were collected from the students’ speaking scores in the pre-test and
post-test, classroom observation, and semi-structured interviews. The
research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of three
meetings. The study showed the improvements of the students’ scoring and
performance. In the pre-test, the mean score was 5.6 but in the
post-test, their mean score increased to 6.1. The improvement of
students’ speaking skill was recorded with the mean score of 6.9. The
result shows that there are some improvements on the students’ speaking
skill quantitatively and qualitatively. |
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