Difficulties in teaching English speaking skills to the tenth form students at Van Canh high school = Những khó khăn trong việc dạy kĩ năng nói cho học sinh lớp 10 trường THPT Vân Canh. M.A Thesis Linguistics: 60 14 10

Abstract

This minor thesis aimed at investigating the difficulties that students and English teachers at Van Canh High School have encountered in speaking lessons. The causes of those difficulties were also investigated in order to find the solutions to solve these problems. The results showed that the participants have encounteredmany difficulties in English speaking lessons such as; lack of motivation, lack of time, anxiety or lack of confidence, lack of vocabularies, structures, lack of opportunities to use English in real life, low linguistic competence and low communicative competence, lack of facilities. The reasons for these difficulties were mostly come from the teachers; the students and the school context. On the basis of the findings, some recommendations were made for the improvement of quality of teaching and learning English at Van Canh High School. The study is, thus, significant in helping Van Canh English teachers and students to deal with common problems they are facing.