Using Conversational Technique to Improve Matthayomsuksa 5 Students’ English Speaking Ability

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study and compare students’ English speaking ability before and after being taught using conversational technique and to study the students' attitude  towards teaching English speaking using conversational technique.

The sample consisted of 35 Matthayomsuksa 5 students at Triamudomsuksa School of the Northeast, Sakon  Nakhon Secondary Educational Service Area Office 23 in the first semester of the 2020 academic  year obtained by cluster random sampling. The research design was a one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments were 12 lesson plans, an English speaking ability test and an attitude  questionnaire. The experiment lasted 8 weeks, 3 hours a week, 24 hours for all. Mean, percentage, standard deviation, one sample t-test and t-test for dependent samples were used for data analysis. The findings of this research were as follows:

1. The students' pretest and posttest mean scores on English speaking ability were 28.63 or 47.72 % and 44.68 or 74.90 % respectively. The students' posttest mean score was higher than the criterion of 70 percent and higher than that of the pretest.


2. The students' attitude towards teaching English speaking using conversational technique was at a high level.