A RESEARCH ON THE EFFECTS OF GROUP PRESENTATIONS ON SPEAKING SKILL OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT VIETNAM MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Speaking skill plays a fundamental part in learning foreign languges in general and English in particular. Proficiency in speaking skill is the result of constant effort of both teachers and learners. Consequently, in the role of instructors, all English teachers of Foreign Languages Department, Vietnam Military Medical University always try their best to apply various teaching methods in order to enhance students’ speaking skill, which includes group presentation. With the aim of assessing the effects of group presentations on speaking skill of military students, we carried out a research on 88 first-year students of Vietnam Military Medical University using such methods as survey questionnaires, observation and intervention. The results show that doing group presentation has contributed considerably to learners’ speaking skill in terms of Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar and Fluency.