TAILIEUCHUNG - Multi level ELT classes – challenges and solutions

As the consequence of credit training, the classes mixed with the students having passed the University Entrance Exam and the ones sent from mountainous areas without the strict exam have imposed great problems in the non-major ELT practice at Thai Nguyen University. A case study was conducted on a group of 20 freshmen to explore challenges as well as benefits of the ELT situation and to prove the effectiveness of some suggestive strategies. | Trịnh Quỳnh Trâm MULTI-LEVEL ELT CLASSES CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS – Trịnh Quynh Tram* Foreign Language Faculty - TNU ABSTRACT As the consequence of credit training, the classes mixed with the students having passed the University Entrance Exam and the ones sent from mountainous areas without the strict exam have imposed great problems in the non-major ELT practice at Thai Nguyen University. A case study was conducted on a group of 20 freshmen to explore challenges as well as benefits of the ELT situation and to prove the effectiveness of some suggestive strategies. Key words: mix-ability, multi-level, cooperative learning, ELT, language teaching 1. ELT situation at Thai Nguyen University Mixed ability is a common issue confronting every class, since there are hardly ever two students with the same language learning ability, language knowledge, culture background, learning style, motivation, and the like [2, 3, 6]. Among the above mentioned is the distinct difference in instructed language knowledge and communicative competence of students in a class which normally gets integral blame for the ineffectiveness of English Language Teaching (ELT), particularly in non-English specialized classes at tertiary schools in Vietnam.* English started being taught in secondary schools and universities in Vietnam more than half a century ago but never has the language occupied such a superior status in our education. The innovation (doi moi) in the mid-1980s made a great shift in our world cooperation and integration, and English has become a principal communicative medium in all integrative \ * Tel: 0986529222; Email: tramdangtue@ Số hóa bởi Trung tâm Học liệu – Đại học Thái Nguyên interactions in politics, economics, education, and other fields of life between Vietnamese and their partners from other countries. For the last two decades, English competence has been set as a required achievement to every graduate. Graduates with good English competency get much

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