THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH ENRICHMENT COURSE ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL AND CREATIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR UPPER-SECONDARY STUDENTS

Abstract

The study aims to 1) develop an English Enrichment Course curriculum enhancing intercultural and creative communication skills for upper-secondary students and 2) investigate the efficiency of the curriculum. This study was employed the research and development process comprising of four main phases including 1) researching essential information for curriculum development, 2) drafting the curriculum, 3) implementing the developed curriculum, and 4) evaluating the efficacy of the curriculum. The sample consisted of 36 Grade 10 students in the second semester of academic year of 2022, selected through purposive sampling. The duration of the study was 16 weeks. The research instruments included 1) the curriculum for the English Enrichment course, focusing on intercultural and creative communication skills for upper-secondary students, 2) pretest and posttest assessments covering three main aspects: knowledge and understanding, emotions and feelings, and behaviors and practices, and 3) a satisfaction survey questionnaire regarding the curriculum. Descriptive statistics, such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and dependent t-tests, were employed for data analysis. The findings indicated that 1) the developed curriculum consisted of seven main elements and four learning units with the appropriateness consistency level between 0.80 – 1.00, 2) the efficacy of the developed curriculum was that the posttest scores were higher than the pretest at a statistically significance level at .05 and exceeded the percentage of 80, and overall, students expressed high satisfaction with the curriculum ( = 4.29)