The difficulties in using body language in making presentations of english- major students at Faculty of Foreign Languages in Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City :Graduation Thesis - Faculty of Foreign Languages

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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GRADUATION THESIS

THE DIFFICULTIES IN USING BODY LANGUAGE IN MAKING

PRESENTATIONS OF ENGLISH- MAJOR STUDENTS AT

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN INDUSTRIAL

UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY.

STUDENT’S FULL NAME: To Nguyen Xuan Yen

STUDENT’S ID : 17031661

CLASS : DHAV13A

COURSE : 2017- 2021

COHORT : Pham Van Sang

: Pham Thi Kim Yen

SUPERVISOR’S NAME : Ho Thi Hien, M.A.

HCMC, 06/2021

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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GRADUATION THESIS

THE DIFFICULTIES IN USING BODY LANGUAGE IN MAKING

PRESENTATIONS OF ENGLISH- MAJOR STUDENTS AT

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN INDUSTRIAL

UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY.

STUDENT’S FULL NAME: To Nguyen Xuan Yen

STUDENT’S ID : 17031661

CLASS : DHAV13A

COURSE : 2017- 2021

COHORT : Pham Van Sang

: Pham Thi Kim Yen

SUPERVISOR’S NAME : Ho Thi Hien, M.A.

HCMC, 06/2021

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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Student’s name : TÔ NGUYỄN XUÂN YẾN

Student’s ID : 17031661

Class : DHAV13A

Course : 2017- 2021

Cohort : PHẠM VĂN SÁNG

: PHẠM THỊ KIM YẾN

Supervisor’s name : HỒ THỊ HIỀN, M.A.

Student’s declaration: I declare that this graduation report is entirely my own work and

does not involve in plagiarism or collusion. It also has not been accepted as part of a

submission to another purpose elsewhere. I accept heavy penalty for any cheating or

plagiarism.

Date submitted : 20/06/2021

Signed : ………………………

Word count : 12678 words

ABSTRACT

In fact, there are a lot of factors that negatively affects the result of presentations, one of them

is the difficulty of using body language in making presentations. Honestly, students in general

and students at FFL of IUH in particular who have to frequently make many presentations for

the regular test during their course, but they do not have experience and knowledge of the

presentation skills. Therefore, they faced many obstacles in applying body language when

presenting, which causes disadvantages to the result of the presentations. For this reason, the

researchers conducted the study to discover the obstacles, besides also the desire to improve as

well as find out some ways to overcome this situation, which aims to help students become

better in making presentations. During the process of carrying out the study, the researchers

used both the quantity and quality methods in order to find the difficulties which the students￾major at FFL have met when using body language to make the presentations through the survey

on Google form online. From that, the researchers also indicated the suitable solutions to

improve and overcome these problems which are based on the participants’ answers.

Through the research, the researchers hope that, the FFL’s students can improve and overcome

the obstacles and become more and more fluent and easily use body language in their

presentations so that the presentations have the best result.

Keywords: Body language, Difficulties, English- major students, Presentations.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

During the process of conducting my graduation thesis, I received a great deal of enthusiastic

help and support from many people who guided and encouraged me to overcome the obstacles

and challenges in order to complete the thesis successfully and in a very nice manner.

To complete this thesis, first of all, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the teachers

in the School Board of Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City and Faculty of Foreign

Languages who have provided me with invaluable knowledge and experience during my studies

as well as research at university. During the implementation to carry out the research, I have

encountered a lot of difficulties. However, with the encouragement and help of the teachers,

relatives and friends, I have also completed my research well, and gained useful experience and

knowledge for myself.

Secondly, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Ms. Ho Thi Hien, who is currently a

Master of Arts (M.A.) as well as a teacher at Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City. She

directly guided and enthusiastically helped me during the thesis implementation. She graciously

and wholeheartedly supported me little by little during the process of conducting my thesis.

Honestly, my partners and I could not have successfully completed the graduation thesis

without her enthusiastic help and helpful advice. With her experience and professional

knowledge, she has given a lot of support and suggestions to create the thesis as successful and

complete as now. During the period of research, she was willing to answer all of queries and

foster me with her caring attitude. I really appreciative and grateful for what Ms. Hien has done

for me and partners during the past time.

Thirdly, I would like to thank my team members consisting of Pham Van Sang and Pham Thi

Kim Yen. They are really kind and wonderful partners. During the process of carry out the

graduation thesis, they were eager to assist and support me. They always shared information

and documents which related to the research. They are also ready to help me to improve or

overcome my mistakes and shortcomings during carrying out my thesis. Moreover, we work

together very comfortably and happily, ready to give feedback if someone in the team makes

mistake or does not do well. Therefore, I feel that I am extremely lucky when working and

having a chance to cooperate with such perfect teammates.

Last but not least, I am grateful to all of English- major students at Faculty of Foreign

Languages in Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City who contributed to the successful

completion of my thesis.

In short, I sincerely thank to all people who helped me to complete my graduation thesis.