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the most suitable teaching methods in order to fulfill the First Year Course (2018-2019 Academic Year) at the
students’ needs and develop their language proficiency. University of Computer Studies (Pakokku). We use
questionnaires and interviews for collecting quantitative and
Aim and Research Question qualitative data from student respondents. In this survey, the
This study aims to investigate students’ present learning questionnaire, which consisted of 13 multiple choice items,
situation, their attitude to learning language and the actual are used in order to investigate the actual needs for
needs for developing the productive skills of the students. developing the productive skills of the students. 150
Their English language proficiency differs from each other students are made to take the questionnaire on a voluntary
because they come from different places and they have basic and the majority of the students are at the age of 16 to
different exposure to speaking and writing. The findings of 18. Their perspectives on English language learning and
this study will give language teacher more knowledge about their interest in taking part in writing and speaking activities
the students’ attitude towards learning English and their differ from each other because they have different exposure
needs and which teaching strategies are suitable most for to their natural skills. Based on data collected from the
developing students’ productive skills. respondents, this research calculates the students’ needs and
interest to improve their language.
The research question is:
What is the present learning language situations of the 3.1. NEEDS ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE
students and which are the most suitable teaching strategies STUDENTS AND THEIR RESPONSES TO
for developing the productive skills of the students at the STATEMENTS
University of Computer Studies (Pakokku)? The following table shows the questionnaire which is used to
carry out the survey on needs analysis of the students and
3. METHODS the response of the participants towards learning language
This research has been conducted with Computer Science in number and percentage. Each respondent is allowed to
and Technology Specialisagion students who are attending tick only one option for each item in the questionnaire.
Somewhat Somewhat
No. Statements Agree Disagree
Agree Disagree
Studying English is important because it will make
1. 112(74.66%) 35(23.33%) 3(2%) 0(0%)
me more educated.
Learning English is helpful to large extent in
2. 127(84.66%) 20(13.33%) 3(2%) 0(0%)
studying my subjects.
Learning English can help me find better job
3. 120(80%) 24(16%) 6(4%) 0(0%)
opportunities.
I think that I need to improve receptive skills:
4. 108(72%) 32(21.33%) 8(5.33%) 2(1.33%)
listening skill and reading skill for my future career.
I think that I need to improve productive skills:
5. 121(80.66%) 29(19.33%) 0(0%0) 0(0%)
writing skill and speaking skill for my future career.
Fear of making mistake and lack of confidence make
6. 99(66%) 31(20.66%) 15(10%) 5(3.33%)
me silent in the class.
I would like to do pair work or group work rather
than individual work in speaking activity in the
7. 98(65.33%) 30(20%) 12(8%) 10(6.66%)
class.
3.2. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION of the students are willingly to improve their speaking skill
According to the results of the questionnaire that examined but they want to take part in pair and group works in
the attitude to the students towards studying English speaking activities rather than individually. However, the
language and the students’ need, it can be found that almost majority of the students mentioned that silence occurred in
all of the students have desire to be proficient in the English the speaking skill is because of fear of making mistake and
language. 84.66% of the students say that learning English is lack of confidence. Besides, most of the students do not
helpful to large extent in studying their subjects and 80.66% spend their time to practise English Language skills daily.
of the students surveyed state that speaking and writing While almost all of the students say writing skill is very
skills are the most important for their career and it is important for their studying, most of them have not done
followed by listening skill and reading skill. Moreover, most enough practice to improve writing skill. Nearly 60 % of the
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students surveyed state that writing in pairs or in groups enjoy” and so on. And then, the teacher writes sample
makes them improve their writing skill rather than writing questions on the white board such as “How do you feel living
individually. It is found that nearly half of these students are in a hostel?”, “What is your feeling on being a computer
still less confident enough to speak English in public and university student?” and so on. The students have to prepare
over half of the students are not satisfied with their English to make a sentence by using at least two words of different
proficiency. feeling.
With the regard to the data collected from the students of Activity : One student has to ask question and the
University of Computer Studies (Pakokku), most of the other one has to give answer and vice-visa
students had strong desire to improve their speaking and using above sample questions and the verbs
writing skills and positive attitude towards the natural skills followed by gerund.
not only in the class but also in their future careers.
Therefore, the language teachers need to investigate what For example:
the students need, try to find out which are the best ways to Student A : How do you feel living in a hostel?
make the students improve their speaking and writing skills Student B : I don’t mind sharing a room with a friend but I
and let them participate in any kinds of language producing can’t stand waiting for taking a bath.
activities. Hence, the following methods are selected for
enhancing an active role of students in the learning process Through the activity, students must be encouraged to use the
and improving the students’ productive and communication target language and every student must participate in this
skills. activity. By the use this activity, each learner can get
interactions between the teacher and the learners which are
4. SOME SELECTED STRATEGIES AND SUGGESTED fundamental to successful learning.
ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING PORDUCTIVE SKILLS
In order to fulfill the students’ need for improving their 4.2. COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
language productive skills: speaking and writing, there are a Collaborative learning is an approach to teaching and
variety of teaching strategies the teacher can use. Within a learning that involves groups of students working together
given lecture time, the language teacher needs to create a to solve a problem, create a project or complete a task. To be
comfortable atmosphere for leading to the involvement in all effective learning, careful planning should not be left out.
students in the process of learning target language as well as Planning involves preparing for a task before the task is
strategies which consist of activities to encourage student performed. Typically it involves having time to think about a
interaction. Depending upon the extent to which teachers given topic, having time to prepare what to say, and taking
and students play their roles in the language teaching and brief notes about what to say. The task may involve being
learning process, the author has selected some strategies to given a set of pictures that represent a story to talk about,
improve students’ language production. describing a model, preparing a small lecture, making a
decision, or providing personal information (Nation and J.
Depending on the students’ needs, some writing tasks and Newton, 2009). In most of the activities, it can be found that
speaking activities are suggested. Activities are designed to about ten minutes’ planning time is usually enough for the
provoke communication between the students and the students to give good results. With certain activities it may
teacher so that their writing and speaking skills can be be needed to allow students time to think about what they
developed. These activities can stimulate their interest and are going to say or write.
motivation and give them the chance of developing their
productive skills. For the sake of the students, some Suggested Activity : Describing your home town
activities which are expected to be useful in language skills Class size : Any
development are suggested as follows. Preparation time : 10 to 15 minutes
Purpose : To increase vocabularies and
4.1. PAIR-WORK OR GROUP-WORK make long sentences
Since the goal of learning is to make students able to Skill developed : Writing and speaking
communicate, the teachers have to encourage the students to Procedure : The teacher makes groups of
participate in certain condition. One technique that can be students who come from the same
delivering by the teacher is pair or group work to interact region and gives them some topics
with other people, either in the flesh, through pair and group they have to discuss as follows:
work, or in their writings (Richard & Rodger, 1999 and A list of all the products that their community or region
Pacheler et al, 2009). produces or trades
A list of all the produces that other communities or
Suggested Activity : Expressing Feelings regions trade with theirs
Time Alloted : 10-20 minutes A place where raw materials come from
Purpose : To be able to express their A place where the produce is produced
feelings Roads and trade routes
Grammar and Function : Use of verbs followed by gerund Important landmarks
and conjunctions
Organization : Pair work Each group has to think and discuss together to describing
Skill Developed : Writing and Speaking their regions and write them down on the paper. After a
Procedure : The students are divided into given time, each group has to select a group leader to
pairs. The teacher gives all the learners the words such as present their information to the whole class. For almost
“like, dislike, adore, love, hate, detest, can’t stand, don’t mind, classroom activities, the students should be encouraged to
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use available resource such as their prior knowledge and the 5. CONCLUSIONS
information on a variety of books or dictionary and internet. This research was conducted with an aim to explore the
As a language teacher, it is very important to build student students’ current English language learning situation and to
confidence, help them to see value in learning and stay fulfill their needs. In research study, it has been found that
focused on the task. most of the students are weak in doing practice to improve
their language and participating in their class activities
4.3. ROLE-PLAY because of being afraid of making mistake and their lack of
Role-play is one of the excellent activities of getting our confidence. It may cause students’ difficulties in
students to practice their English speaking activity. communicating with their ideas both written and oral
Participating in role-play activity in the classroom leads to a speech. In order to overcome these problems, the language
lot of language production and lets even quieter students teachers have to plan some teaching strategies such group
have a chance to participate in speaking activities and makes work, pair work and creating collaborative learning
all the participants joyful in the class. As a role play activity, environment which can promote students’ active
the students can imagine themselves into a person they like participation in learning.
or admire and the situations they want to.
In fact, the main aim of language learning is to communicate
Sample role-play activities are: with each other effectively. Therefore, the productive skill
A. Imaginary people – The joy of role-play is that students becomes the important skills for the students to give more
can become anyone they like for a short time such as attention and can be regarded to be more important than
The President, the State Counselor, a millionaire, a other language skills in English Language Teaching.
celebrity person and so on. For this activity, the teacher Moreover, being fluent and accuracy in writing and speaking
must suggest a topic per student by letting them select is essential for the student in their field of study as well as
one they want or drawing lots. The students should be their future career. Therefore, it is important that they will
given about five minutes to prepare their topic. Students have got a lot of practices for developing their productive
can also take on the opinions of someone else. And then, skills. In this research paper, the activities for speaking
the teacher makes each student present their topic and practice through writing activities have been presented.
the rest of the class listen. By doing so, all the students Thus, it is hoped that this research report will be of help to
increase their knowledge and improve their listening some extent for students who want to develop their
and speaking skills. productive skills and teachers who are taking responsibility
B. Imaginary situations – Functional language for a large to improve their students’ productive skills.
number of scenarios can be activated and practised
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