The The Enhancement of English Speaking Ability of The Visually Impaired Students Using Blended Learning

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The purposes of the study were: to study and compare the English speaking ability of the visually impaired students before and after learning English speaking using blended learning and to investigate the students’ attitude towards teaching English speaking using blended learning.

              The sample is comprised of twelve visually impaired students of Khon Kaen School for the Blind in Lower Secondary School who attended English classes on Saturdays, selected using purposive selection. The research design was a one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments consisted of 12 lesson plans for both online lessons using CourseVille Learning Management System and face-to-face instruction, an English speaking ability test and an attitude questionnaire. The experiment was conducted for 12 weeks, 2 hours for each week with a total of 24 hours for all lessons. The data were collected from the pretest and posttest instruments and the attitude questionnaire. The statistics used for analyzing the data were mean, percentage, standard deviation, one sample t-test and t-test for dependent samples.

The findings of this research were as follows:

1. The students’ pretest and posttest mean scores on English speaking ability were 165.16 or 66.06 percent and 205.58 or 82.23 percent respectively. The students’ English speaking ability posttest mean score was not less than 70 percent and higher than that of the pretest.


2. The students’ attitude towards teaching English speaking through blended learning was at a good level.