APPLIED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN AN ENGLISH SPEAKING LESSON OF UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

In the world, there are many controversies on methods of education in teaching English. There are distinctions between the traditional education and the experiential education. In teaching English the method should be communicative and suited to the students’ characteristics. It is aimed to create the teaching learning process which is interesting and comforting to the students so that they can reach the learning goal and English becomes a more attractive subject for them. The paper explains that experiential education is in fact important part of communicative teaching and task-based teaching by presenting sample English speaking activities in a lesson at Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration (TUEBA). The principles of the English speaking class can be realized only when teachers create experiential activities and only when experiences are closely related to tasks and the needs.