An investigation into the perceptions and actual behaviors of the teachers and the students at the faculty of Foreign Language of Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry about group work in speaking lessons

Tóm tắt An investigation into the perceptions and actual behaviors of the teachers and the students at the faculty of Foreign Language of Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry about group work in speaking lessons: ...achers‟ and the students‟ actual classroom practice. - Collecting the data on the teachers‟ and the students‟ practices via class observations. Observation of 10 speaking lessons was made according to designed criteria. - Analyzing observation data based on the observation scheme. - Comparin... second biggest problem that all of the 10 teachers agree with is the multi – level class. Although, the students had mostly the same level of English proficiency at the beginning of the course, in the third –year, their levels are obviously different. They are not at the same levels any more....enders, levels of proficiency or interest to put the students in relevant groups. The reasons for these choices were that the classroom furniture is fixed and they did not want to waste time on seeking for the students‟ own information to form the groups. The average number of students in each...