PRACTICAL BACKGROUND

2. PRACTICAL BACKGROUND:

The study was conducted at Hoang Hoa 4 high school, a rural school of

Thanh Hoa province.

The school has 31 classes, each class consists of from 40 to 46 students.

Most of the students come from the villages in the district where English

learning and teaching does not get much attention. The only sources from which

students can get knowledge are the textbooks and their teachers. With three

periods per week, this is unable for teachers to meet students’ demand. At home,

they are short of dictionaries, reference books, cassette tapes, speakers.

Additionally, their parents do not know anything about English. As a result, they

find it difficult to learn English and they become lazy. I myself has been

teaching English for 13 years. I have a lot of experiences in teaching students

for the GCSE exam. For this exercise, most students have difficulties in

identifying errors (about 90 % don’t know how to do this exercise).

Such practical background has leaded me to my experiential initiative:

“Some methods of doing error identification exercise in the GCSE exam”.