The Development of Curriculum to Enhance English for Speaking Communicative Ability by Using Role Play Approach for Fifth-Grade Students

Abstract

             The purposes of this research were to: 1) Create and determine the curriculum effectiveness of the curriculum to enhance English for speaking communicative ability by using role play approach for fifth-grade students. 2) Study the results from curriculum to enhance English for speaking communicative ability by using role play approach for fifth-grade students. The research was pre-experimental research and the pattern used in the experiment was one-group pre-test post-test design. The samples group used fifth-grade students, Semester 2, Academic Year 2021 Watmuangnga School, 22 students. This was obtained from cluster random sampling. The research and data collection instruments were curriculum, curriculum manual and speaking communicative ability test. The statistics used for analyzed using percentage, mean, and standard deviation T-test dependent.

       The research results finds that:

1. The curriculum to enhance English for speaking communicative ability by using role play approach for fifth-grade students consisted of 7 elements 1) problem statement 2) principle of curriculum 3) aims of curriculum 4) content structures 5) activity 6) materials resources and learning sources and 7) measurement and evaluation. The level of the overall appropriateness of the curriculum was high ( = 4.11, S.D. = 0.22). The level of the overall appropriateness of curriculum's manual was high ( = 4.04, S.D. = 0.26) and the effectiveness of learning according to the curriculum was 0.7559

           2. Students who have studied with the curriculum to enhance English for speaking communicative ability by using role play approach had a statistically higher average score for speaking communicative ability after study at the level of .05.