ENHANCING COMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ETHNIC MINORITY STUDENTS IN LAO CAI TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE- VIETNAM

Đới Thị Thu Thủy
Lao Cai Teacher Training College,Chieng On street, Binh Minh ward, Lao Cai City,
* Corresponding author: dthithuthuy.c08@moet.edu.vn
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Abstract
Communication skill is one of the most important features of human beings which helps people develop mentally, achieve higher efficiency, productivity quality in the activities they take. Thus, each individual should practice communication skill seriously. At Lao Cai Teacher Training College, more than 80% of the students are of ethnic minority who come from remote areas. The living and studying condition in these areas are really poor and result in difficuties for these students to catch up with the curriculum at the college. On  enterinng new environment in Lao Cai Teacher Training College, students appear to be  shy in communication. Many lecturers found it difficult to work with these students. Thus this research concentrates on assessing current communicating ability of the students, figuring out causes and proposing solutions to improve communication skills for students. The research reveals that: Most of the ethnic minority students in Lao Cai Teacher Training College are weak at communication skills resulting from their lack of instructions and training specifically and scientifically. Enhancing the communication skills for these future teachers requires a combination of methods to develop their activeness, self-consciousness. These includes organizing more in-class activities and extracurricular which provide students with chances to practices and experience as much as possible. Also the student assessment should be revised so as to evaluate the communicative ability of students more precisely. Good communication skills shall help students be more confident, quickly adapt to the requirement of further career and the continually changing social context.

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