The Development of English Listening – Speaking Abilities for Communication Using Simulation of Matthayomsuksa 3 students

Abstract

The purposes of this study were:  1)to investigate and compare the English listening – speaking abilities for communication using simulation of Matthayomsuksa 3 students, and 2) to explore the students’ attitudes toward teaching English listening – speaking abilities for communication using simulation. The sample group consisted of 25 Matthayomsuksa 3 students of a school, under Office of Khon Kaen Education Service Area 25, in the first semester of academic year 2019. The design of this study was one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments were lesson plans, an English listening – speaking abilities for communication test, and an attitude evaluation form. The experiment took 12 weeks, 2 hours per week, 24 hours for all. The statistics that used for analyzing the data was mean, percentage, standard deviation including t-test for dependent samples. Findings of this research study were as follows:  1) The students’ pretest and posttest English listening abilities mean score were 12.00 or 40 percent and 22.40 or 74.67 percent. The students pretest and posttest English speaking abilities mean score were 25.76 or 25.76 percent and 73.80 or 73.80 percent. The students pretest and posttest English listening – speaking abilities were found significantly at the .01 level. The mean score on the posttest was higher than the pretest.

2) Results of the students’ attitude towards teaching English listening – speaking for communication using simulation were at a good level.