A Study of Improving English Speaking Skills for The IELTS Test of Students at Foreign Trade University of Hanoi in Vietnam
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University in Hanoi, Vietnam; and 3) To propose strategies and techniques to improve speaking skills for IELTS of students at Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, Vietnam. This research is a mixed research design between quantitative and qualitative. A questionnaire was used to collect qualitative data from 120 Vietnamese students at Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, Vietnam. Furthermore, an in-depth interview was conducted with five key informants teaching IETST at some universities in Hanoi, Vietnam, and English centers. According to the results of research, there are five problems related to Speaking techniques of the IELTS Speaking Test, which include: 1) insufficient practice time, 2) poor pronunciation, 3) grammatical errors, 4) inability to speak fluently, and 5) unnatural style and incorrect pronunciation.
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