TOPIC: Pros and cons of contemporary methods of learning based English for
elementary children in an elementary school in Vietnam?
Introduction: This is a survey is created by a student English linguistics in Hanoi Metropolitan University
Key words: Elementary students, mother tounge, second language, mental health
AIM & OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Aim:
This study aims to understand if the contemporary methods of learning English for elementary children
in an elementary school in Vietnam.
Objectives of the study:
This study aims to understand if the contemporary methods of learning English for elementary children.
Furthermore, it aims to have a significant knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of learning
English as a second language for elementary children in an elementary school in Vietnam
Research questions:
Q1: How old is your child?
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Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5
Q2: When does your child start to learn English?
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Various answers
Q3: How long does your kid spend on studying English in a day?
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1 hour or below
1- 2 hours
2 hours and above
Q4: Do you feel like your kid good at English?
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Yes
No
Maybe
Q5: Why do you feel like your kid good / not good at English?
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Various answers
Q6: Does your child usually talk in English at home?
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Yes
-No
Q7: How is your child’s ability in other subjects?
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Good
Normal
Bad
Q8: Is your child an introvert or extrovert?
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Introvert
Extrovert
Q9: Do you let your kid study English outside (ex: English center, tutor, ...)
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Yes
No
Q10: Do you feel satisfied if your kid study English at school at this age?
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Yes
No
Q11: Why you (not) feel satisfied about that?
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Various answers
Q12: This is an assessment scale, please evaluate your child’s English language.
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1 -> 10
RESEARCH METHODLOGY:
Research context:
The research will focus on the data collected from the parents who have their children study around
grade 1 to grade 5. First of all, they will pay attention on their children for 2 weeks as the time they
doing the investigation. Kids will use the same English teaching method and also the same book, which is
communicating book, called Family And Friends. Communicating skill is the most essential skill for
children especially in elementary school to improve their self- esteem and confident as well. With the
aim of understanding more about the pros and cons of contemporary methods of learning based
English, children will follow this method two weeks and after that there will be an exam to see if this
model of learning effective or not.
Research design:
Survey research is the design that the most suitable for this investigation. surveys provide a very
efficient means for researchers to gather a good deal of information in a short time with little cost.
Moreover, to find out the data of the research in an effective way, survey is a good choice to get know
more about the details, background and the preference of the students through their parents due to the
age of kids. The survey will be conducted with the participation of 200 parents who have children
studying at an elementary school. In addition, a qualitative approach will be also involved in the process
of data collection; the data in semi-structured interviews with five teachers who also working at that
elementary to make sure if the collected data reliable or not.
Participants:
This study will be assisted of 200 students from 5 classes pick randomly from grade 1 to 5 in an
elementary school in Vietnam. Although the students in a different age, they will study the same
method of English course which is Family And Friends. Moreover, there are 5 teachers will be the
teaching assistants in 5 classes to make sure the course follows the right way.
Data collection instruments:
The data of this study will be collected through questionnaires, interviews and class observation.
Data collection procedures:
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Send the survey questionnaire to the parents of 200 elementary students after two weeks
investigate the research.
5 teachers who are teaching assistants will interview them as the second way of collecting data.
After two steps above, class observation will be used as the final way to research the reliability.
In conclusion, from all of the data collection instruments, we can find out the pros and cons of
contemporary methods of learning based English for elementary children.
Data analysis:
The collected data will be analyzed by the checklist of each class from 5 classes, by the students’ names
which follow the alphabet. Furthermore, the data will be illustrated as the percentage and presented in
a table which can be created by Google form. The interviews will be organized into topics, with relevant
replies from respondents cited and descriptive and objective explanations provided.
LITERATURE REVIEW
There are 3 literatures related to the research topic:
1. http://kate.bada.cc/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kate_60_2_8.pdf
2. https://jurnal.umj.ac.id/index.php/ELIF/article/view/4498
3. https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/32342690/teachers_beliefs_about_teaching_English_to_
elementary_school_children-with-cover-pagev2.pdf?Expires=1649180688&Signature=KxLjMfxtwxbTChBZQpdI2L57rX5lyw~qdyf7oq2CBRkTm6
rI6EkgJFKn04dO1O2UF25GDGcdfNqlnjAxlh-ao4FhxzDoZRbDjF~1u87cVxRGCA3hJf8w7ZaOGluGiqBi7m0pPAT17Vn3I8BtQXgu3bCQHusK6QtAJO5BUgtycAp41TXs880aZZJB5zZN84t8evpVHsskL
nYFzDLYbWPE93dIJpNH5EDSqpDlZDcm4azQiPlEkYHiIzaU4xv9QQbX7C~jmYvD0WKVvC0YX9L~vft
FSewBRrEOvwYTt3UeFY9yaAnNwPJQwygdq0NGvhF8Z3YKxpOLzbVjQidOmDMjQ__&Key-PairId=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
Topic/su Author
btopic
(Year)
Theme
IDEAS
Your
(paraphrase/summarize/quot comments
e)
The Pros and
Cons of Taskbased
Instruction in
Elementary
English Classes
Lee, SeungMin. (2005)
Teaching
English to
Young
Learners in
Indonesia
Tatu Zakiyatun
Nufus (2018)
The aim of this
article has not
been to
criticize taskbased
instruction,
but rather to
examine its
characteristics
from real
classroom
data, and to
balance the
arguable
theoretical
claims with
textual
evidence of
the drawbacks
encountered
in elementary
English
classrooms.
Teaching
English for
young learners
in Indonesia
still invites the
controversies
among the
educators and
psycholinguist
s that concern
on learners’
development
in thinking and
communicatio
n.
It should also
be said,
however, that
task-based
interaction is a
particularly
narrow and
restricted
variety of
communicatio
n, in which the
whole
organization
of the
interaction is
geared to
establishing a
tight and
exclusive focus
on the
accomplishme
nt of the task.
“Minimalizatio
n and
excessive use
of the mother
tongue”
This literature
gives me a
significant view
about the
method of
learning English
for the kids
Teaching
English for
young learners
basically is the
unique activity
which invites
the learners to
think, play and
communicate
with the
language, and
this activity
should attract
them not to
force them in
knowing the
forms or the
structure of
the language,
“Mind without
learning them
in forcing”
This literature
give the exact
data which is
from Indonesia
with reliable
number of
candidates who
joined this survey
because
teaching
English for the
primary
learners did
not have any
regulation that
can force
the school to
give the
teaching or
not.
Teachers '
Beliefs About
Teaching
English to
Elementary
School
Children
Posen Liao
(2007)
, teachers’
beliefs need to
be probed
before
teachers can
critically
reflect on their
teaching
practices, and
in turn
facilitate
changes to
teach more
effectively.
In recent
years, it has
become more
crucial to view
teachers as
active thinkers
in the
language
teaching
process
(Richards,
1998).
“Teachers’
beliefs may
greatly
influence and
be influenced
by those of
their peers”
Researchers may
use the results
from this study
to become better
aware of
elementary
school English
teachers’ specific
beliefs, so this
literature keeps
enough evidence
which can lead to
the improvement
of the research
topic