From their responses to the questionnaires, interview observations, it is found that all the teacher frequently used group work in their speaking lesson because they understood the importance of group work in teaching speaking skill. And they all followed the same basic steps in organizing group work activity. It is also interesting that game and role-play are fovorite activities to all students meanwhile they were selected by only half of the teachers. However, the students and teachers share the same oppinion on the way of grouping, almost of them chose to group students sitting next to or near each other and students of mixed proficiency. As for strategeies used to foster english use group work, both teachers and students thought it was necessary to raise students ' awareness of the importance of english use. In addition, increasing the amount of english use required by the teacher and reminding students to switch back to english when they speak Vietnamese consciously and unconsciously are two strategies which almost all of the students and teachers highly appreciated. Regarding the difficulties, three factors "students use too much Vietnamese", "students make too much noise," and "there is a lack of money for material and teaching aid development" were considered to be the biggest problem to all the teachears. And for students, their biggest difficulties were due to their passive learning style, their low english proficiency and classroom condition and learning aid.Based on the findings of the study, a number of suggestion were given to teachers and students of english in CT15TAN02 at Quang Nam University and help students improving speaking skill
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