An Action Research for Improving Speaking Ability of Vocational Students Using Communicative Language Teaching Activities
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The purposes of this study were (1) to examine the problems of teaching English speaking ability to vocational students, and (2) to investigate the possible solutions of teaching speaking using CLT activities with cycles of an action research. The participants of the study were 25 vocational students, majoring in hotel and service. They were selected by purposive sampling. The study was divided into 2 phases. The first phase examined the problems associated with the students’ speaking abilities and the second phase investigated possible solutions of teaching speaking using CLT activities. Data were collected using an observation form and semi-structured interviews. Pre-test and post-test were also used to study the effects of CLT activities on speaking ability. The data were analyzed using mean score, standard deviation and content analysis.
The results revealed that phase 1 indicated that the traditional teaching style focused on memorizing dialogues and practice was not appropriate for the vocational context. Phase 2 yielded that after the implementation of CLT activities, the pre-test and post-test scores showed that the participants’ speaking ability improved significantly in four aspects included pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and fluency.
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2. จะตีพิมพ์และเผยแพร่ได้ ต้องผ่านการประเมินจากผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ (Peer Review)
3. การประเมินบทความโดยผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ (Peer Review) เป็นแบบ Double Blind
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