Group 6

Name: Trương Đông Huy

Lê Triều Phát

Đặng Thị Búp Loan

Nguyễn Thị Kim Cúc

Hoàng Quang Nhật

Research Proposal

1) Introduction

“ Language is our primary source of communication, therefore knowing English

is very important in modern world." - Lalitm Shukla - It is undeniable that English

is extensively used as an international language as the result of being spoken

popularly by foreign language speakers. As a consequence, a vast array of

Vietnamese students choose English language as their major while studying at

universities. Like others subject English have it own difficulty specially in learning

speaking. To investigate more about this problem. A research problem has been

carrying out at Banking University : Challenges/ Difficulties learning speaking of

second- year English major students at Banking University has been made to

investigate this problem.The purpose of this study is to identify what are the

difficulties second-year English major student have when they speaking English,

aim to find out the nature cause of these problems and suggest some solutions

that can conquer the difficulties. The study aims to second-year students studying

English major at Banking University . Because they are no longer in a

intermediate level , they will begin step in academy level which require higher skill

and knowledge specially speaking skill , the most important and difficult in four

skill ( zhang 2009) .

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 2) Research object and questions

Research questions: 

+ What are the problems that occur whereas second-year English major

students in  speaking in class?

+ What are the problems student English  majors have when they speak daily

life?

+ Why do they have such problems ?

+ What have  they done to deal with  the problem ?

Research objectives:

+ To determine the difficulties second-year English major students face while

speaking in class

+ To determine the difficulties second-year English major students face while

speaking in daily life

+ To discover the reasons that lead to these problems

+ To know what ways they use to deal with these problems

Literature review

Author Purpose of the study Finding Missing

(2014). developing students' There are five main factors

skills, strategies, and lead to the existence of

methods in order to these speaking difficulties:

enrich and assist teachers’ thinking about

students' speaking teaching speaking, teaching

abilities. strategies, curriculum,

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 - Using appropriate extracurricular activities, and

communication skills assessment regulations.

techniques.

- Enabling students to

develop a variety of

speaking skills,

including how to speak

correctly and

proficiently.

-To introduce and guide

students to a level of

practical proficiency that

will enable them to be

linguistically and

analytically equipped to

complete extended

speaking skills and

developing their

confidence in practicing

speaking skills.
Nadzirotunnuha, - Analyzing what are the The common problems on

A. (2017). students’ issues on speaking is mother tongue

speaking skill using especially on the

-To know what will the aspect of students feel that

teacher do to find mother tongue is less

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 solutions for the difficult.

students’ speaking The other speaking problems

problems can be made such as

inhibitions, nothing to say,

and low or uneven

participations as a result of

these problems.

Al Nakhalah, A. The study will answer 1- Students are anxious

M. M. (2016) the core question: What about making mistakes,

are the difficulties and fearful of criticism, or simply

problems that shy.

face the students of 2- Students have no

English in speaking motivation to express

skills? And what are the themselves.

reasonable solutions? 3- Learners who share the

same mother tongue tend to

use it because it is easier

and it also make learners

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 feel more confident whereas

speaking their mother

tongue.

4-Many learners are

shortage of the necessary

vocabulary to express their

thinking.

Number of works reviewed ≥ 5 journal articles

4) Methodology

*Study design

+ Number of contacts : 1  Cross-sectional study

+ Reference period

+ Nature of investigation : Non-experiment

*Method of data collection

+ Primary

+ A survey questionnaire

*Population

+ Second-year English major student : 280 Students

*Sampling

+ Stratified random sampling : The distribution of sample according to “English

major class ” variable

Class Student
DH35AV01 10
DH35AV02 10
DH35AV03 10
DH35AV04 5 10

DH35AV05 10
Participant : 50 /280 students

5) Significance

This study will identify what challenges and difficulties can impact communication

skill. Thus student can compare with themself and know whether they have the

same problems or not. By this they can design or find appropriate study technique ,

plan so as to develop their level of speaking.

6) Timeline

Dates Tasks

 Research problems
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 Formulate 2 research problems

 Selection one potential research

 Literature review out line

proposed research questions

8/3-14/3  Writing Research question

 reading journal , book

 Finalized research question

15/3-21/3  Reading journal , book

 Choose methodology
 Writing Proposal research
22/3-28/3

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7) Reference

Abrar, M., Mukminin, A., Habibi, A., Asyrafi, F., & Marzulina, L. (2018). " If our

English isn't a language, what is it?" Indonesian EFL Student Teachers' Challenges

Speaking English. The Qualitative Report, 23(1), 129-145

Dalem, M. (2017). Difficulties of speaking that are encountered by English language

students at Al Margeb University. Premise: Journal of English Education and Applied

Linguistics, 6(2), 20-29.

Al Hosni, S. (2014). Speaking difficulties encountered by young EFL learners.

International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL), 2(6),

22-30.

Al-Jamal, D. A., & Al-Jamal, G. A. (2014). An Investigation of the difficulties faced by

EFL undergraduates in speaking skills. English Language Teaching, 7(1), 19-27.

Nadzirotunnuha, A. (2017). THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’PROBLEMS ON

SPEAKING SKILL AT SMP ISLAM DARUSSALAM DONGKO.

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