knowledge of English. Consequently , they find that learning English is always a
process of continuous interaction among subjects.
2. Basis of practice :
As can be seen, English is a rather difficult subject to students particularly
the rural ones. In the high school English curriculum, there have existed a large
number of inter - unitary lessons with different topics that students have studied
in some other subjects such as Geography, History, Physical Education,
Biology....[5]. Nevertheless, most of English teachers are usually only
concerned about giving explanations to vocabulary, instructions to grammatical
structures for students and asking them to do the tasks in the textbook without
focussing on the use of integrated methods to teach. Hence, this results in low
teaching quality and few students with flying colours. To make it worse,
students increasingly lose their interests in learning English and fail to upgrade
their communicative abilities.
By talking and exchanging with colleagues as well as surveying 160
students in classes 12C1, 12C2, 12C6, 12C7 of Yen Đinh 3 High school, I
noticed that the status of teaching and learning foreign languages is as follows :
In terms of teachers’ side, most of the teachers of the school are highly
qualified, enthusiastic in work, eager to learn ... However, some of them are
timid in innovated teaching methods, do not dare to change or redesign
textbooks, have not found many different methods to refresh the solution. In
particular, a small number of teachers also believe that foreign language
teaching is only teaching vocabulary, structures and guiding students how to do
the tasks and exercises so that students will achieve high results in the exams.
In terms of students, Firstly, the 12th grade students have accessed to
three years of high school program education. They are no wonder strange with
the forms of examination and evaluation that the teachers set. Secondy, they
have deep knowledge of natural resources, environment, society, and political
economy issues both domestically and internationally through such subjects as
Geography, History…[6,7,8,9,10]. Thirdly, in subjects such as Literature,
History, Geography ... they have learned about many subjects integrated in the
lessons. As a result, when it is necessary to combine knowledge of a particular
subject into Foreign Language to solve a problem in the unit, they will not feel
surprised.
According to the survey at the beginning of the year, 65% of students said
that English is a difficult subject, to study this subject well requires students to
learn not only vocabulary and structures but they have also to master other
subjects to integrate the knowledge into English.
From the basis of theory and practice , I find that applying
Interdisciplinary Integration to teaching will help students to develop their
brainstorming, logical thinking and creativity in learning and practical
application. So for myself, in the past few years especially this school year 2017
