3.1 QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE STUDENTS

2.2.3.1 Questionnaire for the students:

The questionnaire, which consists of 18 items with 3 separate parts, was designed to gather

information about students‟ personal information, their English competence, the subject‟s

habits of learning speaking skill and the characteristics of their speaking process. The

questionnaires distributed to the students were written in Vietnamese in order to ensure that

the students fully understood the questionnaire and avoid misunderstanding of the content

of the questionnaires due to the subjects‟ levels of proficiency of English. The students‟

questionnaire has three parts as follows:

PART 1 is the background part consisting of 5 items with 2 subparts. Part 1 has 3 questions

enquiring personal information such as gender (question 1), where they are learning

English (question 2), when they began to learn English (question 3). Part 2 includes 2

questions about their frequency of communicating with speakers of English (question 4)

and their own evaluation of their English speaking ability (question 5).

PART 2: there are four items in part 2 enquiring the learners‟ habits of learning speaking

skill. This may show some problems the students encounter during the process of speaking

owing to their habits of learning speaking skill. The questions are designed as follows: