English As A Foreign Language Case Study

As a common foreign language taught and studied by a majority of Vietnamese, particularly students, the teaching methodology as well techniques, approaches are improving increasingly. Besides some successes have achieved, it has existed some argumentative bias that although students started to learn English in 6 or even 10 years and had a fairly good vocabulary or grammar skills, they are still not likely to communicate well in this language. In addition, with the English traditional teaching methodology, English teachers and learners have more concentrated on grammar, vocabulary,.etc rather than speaking or listening. From that, they cannot speak or clarify their thought by English, even express fluently simple sentences though they can write

Vietnamese learners use English in communication better than before, but there is a big trouble that their speaking activities seem to be unnatural and academic with target language. From that, approaches or methods related to speaking skills receive much more attention rather than before. The first speaking teaching approach mentioned in this paper is PPP ( Present, Practice, Product). As far as English language teaching is involved, there has been many researches from all around the world and many theories and techniques to make language is achieved better. Among those approaches, the PPP is outstanding one and is widely utilized in all language class by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and english as a Second Language (ESL) teachers, it is also one of the best way in teaching speaking with three basic steps; presenting, practicing and

These actions help students have the general information toward the task, beside new informations they have just been taught, they will memorize their own knowledge about the topic. In teaching practice, I saw that It really helps, students feel more active and confident to give all they know, motivate their attitude a lot. Teachers can give the background information by games, stories, songs... etc, from that students also spend time to prepare for what they are going to