TEACHERS’ TRAINING OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION SKILL THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
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Teachers are role models to their students; thus, teachers with unintelligible English pronunciation can lead to failure in English education. Therefore, training English speaking with infectious pronunciation to teachers is inevitable. In addition, LINE is one of the most popular applications among Thai social media users. Because of its functions that support video clips, training of English pronunciation skill via LINE to lower-secondary school teachers in Thailand was studied. Research tools included a pronunciation pretest/posttest and training materials such as an IPA chart, audio files, video files, pronunciation practices and games, suggested websites, as well as online tools for pronunciation teaching and practices. A combination of coaching and Feedback Training method was used with Thai teachers of English who registered online to join the training program. The results showed that the overall pronunciation skill of the participants greatly improved as the posttest scores are significantly higher than the pretest scores (t=3.554, p<0.01). Additionally, the results also showed significant development in pronunciation of consonants (t=9.697, p<0.001) and intonation (t=2.557, p<0.05). Besides, the participants’ written reflections indicated the benefits of this training.
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