UNIVERSITY OF DANANG

UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
TOPIC: THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING
METHODOLOGY ON VIETNAMESE WORKERS WHOSE
MANAGERS ARE FOREIGNER
CLASS: 13SPA02
Members:
Vng Th Nga
L Th B
L Th Bnh Nguyn
on Th Nh Na
Nguyn Th Trc

I/ Introduction
Nowadays, the development of science, technology and economy and the
tendency of globalization have brought about a great demand of
intercommunicating. In order to meet this demand, English has become an
international language. Almost everyone need to learn English. However, many
people get trouble in finding the suitable course to pursuit, especially Vietnamese
workers whose manager is foreigner. To satisfy their expectation, we plan a special
course with some particular methods for them.

II/ Reasons
1. Reasons for Vietnamese workers to learn English

 If they can speak English, they will be able to communicate with their boss or
their foreign co-workers without translators. When the boss asks them
something, they can understand what their boss wants them to do.
In some cases, they can make suggestions, requirements or even complaints to
their boss. Moreover, speaking English fluently offers them opportunity to
make more friends.

They can chat with their boss in their free time to know more about his
family and culture of their country.

Moreover, due to the day today conservation with the boss, Vietnamese
workers can get valuable experiences. Therefore, this is an important element
to work effectively and reach the highest point in career.

Besides, Vietnamese workers is easy to get promoted thank to their good

English. In real life, it is an indispensable factor for workers to be appreciated.

They also help their colleague to communicate with the boss.
They can find another job with higher salary, or even go abroad for work
and make more money in case they are made redundant. Good English helps
them easily to find out a new job with suitable salary.
If they have talent for foreign language, they can try other jobs such as
translators, tourist guide ., these jobs are comfortable in comparison with
workers.
Mastering English offers them a good chance to settle down in any countries
in Europe or the United Kingdom, which is impossible without really good
English.
If you study English , you can go on a travel without any translator ,
especially you can communicate with every one wherever you are .You feel
comfortable and free to go anywhere with English .
English is very important, it is the language of science. To excel in science
you need to know English. Learning English will be useful if you want to
conduct any research in near future.

2. Reasons for choosing workers as the object in our research

Workers have fixed timetable because they work in eight-hour shifts: night
shifts or day shifts. Its easy for us to make specific plans for arranging and
managing classes.
Due to the fact that more and more companies from Europe or US spend
considerable investments in Vietnamese industry, workers are aware of the
importance of foreign language to their work (getting high-paying job,
promotion) and its obvious that they will put more effort into learning
English.
They get salary monthly so they can afford to take an English course which
brings them many benefits.
A huge of foreign-owned company considers Vietnam as a potential job
market and they tend to build a lot of new factories. However, there is a
significantly high rate of unemployment because of not only the lack of
technical knowledge but also the linguistic limitation. Teaching workers
English makes a considerable contribution to raising quality for labor force.

III/ How to motivate workers

1. Describing learners
Almost workers are adult, so they can engage with abstract thought. Therefore, we
cannot rely completely on activities though these may be useful in some certain
cases.
They have many life experiences which allow teachers to use a wide range of
activities with them.
They have specific goals and their own set patterns of learning, they are able to
sustain a level of motivation.
They tend to be more disciplined than some teenagers and ready to struggle on
boredom and confusion.

However:
Their previous learning experiences make them uncomfortable with unfamiliar
teaching patterns.
Their previous failure or criticism at school make them anxious and under
confident about learning a language.
Their intellectual powers may be diminishing with age, they also find it difficult to
maintain their creativity and sense of generativity.

2. The ways to motivate

To motivate workers learning English, we should make two kinds of motivation:
long- term and short- term. The combination of two kinds will make the project
more effective.
We need to combine lessons with games or activities to help them pay
more attention as well as involving students in more indirect learning
through reading, listening, and communicative speaking and writing in
order to attract them to the topics. We need to provide them with a variety
of subjects and exercises to keep them engaged.
A positive environment plays an important role in having a successful
course. We can decorate classrooms with visual materials or change the
atmosphere by using music. When students walk into an attractive
classroom at the beginning of the course, they feel more encouraging to
take all lessons, and free from hard work.
There is no need to teach leaners from basic to intricate grammar and
vocabulary. We just need to organize practical lessons which are easy to
achieve in short-term distance.
To motivate the workers, one effective way is that you tell them how
beneficial studying English is. In fact, mastering English brings them a lot
of benefits and it is worth considering.
We should create favorable condition so that workers can join in class. The
acceptable fee- paying school is very attractive to them. Workers wish to
go to English center but they cant afford to pay high fees. Therefore,
offering acceptable fee is one effective way to motivate learning English.

Workers have deep respect for the boss, encouragement from him is very
important, we can contact with the boss to motivate them learning English.

IV/What workers should learn

The main goal when we conduct the course is that the workers can make simple
conversation. Therefore, teaching sounds system is unavoidable. Knowledge of
sounds system helps them to pronounce exactly and listen to other people.
Also, we should teach them basic grammar, which enables them to make
meaningful sentences and understand what other people want to talk to them
Vocabulary is considered as one of the most important elements in communicating.
To workers in our course, there are some certain topics related to their work and
daily life, which we surely involve in the curriculum.
Example:
Name of many kinds of machine, tools, etc.
Name of emergencies, unexpected accidents during the time they work in
the factories.
Name of technical mistakes: running out of petrol, mistake related to
software.
Personal issues: making friends, making complaints and suggestions.
Moreover, to reach our goals, we should combine theories with practice. Thank
to activities, learners can improve their communicative skill.

V/Methods
English is the international language, especially in the recent years when
globalization becomes the trend. Experts do a large number of researches on
language teaching methodology, namely: grammar translation method, audiolingual method, communicative approach, and humanistic approaches.

However, methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, which we have
to carefully consider and base on characteristics of learners to choose the best.
We will carry out the 5-month course so that learners can communicate at preintermediate level. We mainly use audio-lingual method with some following
reasons:
We set the target that learners can interact with their employer, lay the
foundation for them to go further in language field. Moreover, audio-lingual
method is mainly attached to pronunciation.
We teach them in short time, so the combination between theories and
practice is necessary. Workers do not have much time for learning
vocabulary, with this method, vocabulary is strictly limited and learned in
context.
English does not play a vital role for the workers, learners expect to put
theories into practice immediately. They find it easy to forget, even get bored
with theories. Real context makes them remember easier and feel more
motivated. The audio-lingual method meets their needs because with this
method, teacher creates relaxing, friendly atmosphere.
Due to habit formation, learners speak English in natural way instead of
wasting time learning grammar rules.
Example: Teacher gives leaners a simple conversation and they follow below
steps
Observations
1. The teacher introduces a conversation
and tells what he is going to and what the
students should do.

2. The teacher uses pictures, gestures and

props to act out the conversation.

3. The teacher repeats the conversation in

Principles
New materials (new words, grammar
structures, pronunciation and intonation)
are presented in dialogue form.
The teacher completely uses English.
Teacher is a language model.
Learners try to listen to the conversation
and imitate in their mind.

the same manner.

4. Ask the student to repeat the

conversation.

The more we repeat something, the

easier we remember them, habit
formation makes language more natural.
To prevent learners from making errors.

5. The teacher listens to the students, and

gives feedback if students make a mistake. To improve communicative skill such as
listening and speaking skills.
6. The teacher and student practice the
dialogue by roleplaying it.
To help learners to study grammar rules
naturally.
7. The teacher uses single-slot substitution
drill. He says the whole sentence with
each substitution, then he gives the
Make learners feel more encouraging.
substitution phrase only, the student says
the whole sentence.
8. Teacher gives positive feedback, even
some gifts (notebook, pen..)

9. Teacher conducts transformation and

asks some question related to the
conversation.

10. Teacher gives learners a transcript at

the conversation. Then teacher asks
learners to listen and repeat each line of
the conversation.

The purpose of pattern practice is to help

learners to form pattern using habits.

Practicing to speak a language is more

important than just reading a written
form.

As far as we concerned, workers aged from 18-35 experienced the

traditional method-grammar translation method. Therefore, at the beginning of the
course, we are supposed to use that method for two following reasons: firstly, they
find it easier to adapt the new method gradually, an abrupt change make them feel
uncomfortable and quite disappointed. Secondly, the grammar translation is
particular meaning to the beginners, this method allows teachers to provide
learners with new words full meaning because, sometimes gestures, pictures
cannot help teachers to explain the meaning of the new words completely. Teachers
use this method in necessary cases.
Example: Teachers have difficulty in explaining pass away and die to learners
because of the same core meaning. The easiest way is that teachers use Vietnamese
to interpret the different meaning between these words. Furthermore, learners
cannot distinguish 2 words if teachers speak in English.
When learners get the higher-level, the change in language teaching method
is very necessary, which aims at creating a new motivation to learn more
effectively. We really want to establish the close relationships between learners and
learners or even learners and teachers by interacting with each other. As a result,
we propose to use the communicative approach. Because of the fact that structures
and vocabulary are important but inadequate for communication in the target
language. Learners must be able to apply the knowledge (forms, meanings,
functions) in negotiating meaning. It is through the interaction between speakers
and listeners.
Example: Communicating with partners (make some simple conversations) helps
learners to improve their communicative skill, also remind them of vocabulary and
grammar rules. With this method, we create a friendly and relaxing atmosphere so
that learners study more efficiently.
We hope that the combination between these methods helps us to achieve our goals
and this plan will be possible to conduct in real life.