USING PAIR WORK AND GROUP WORK ACTIVITIES BASED ON COLLABORATIVE LEARNING TO ENHANCE PRATHOMSUKSA 6 STUDENTS’ ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY
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The purposes of this research were to study and compare English speaking ability of Grade 6 students before and after using the collaborative pairwork and group work and to investigate students’ attitude towards teaching English-speaking using pair work and group work activities based on collaborative learning. The sample consisted of 27 students studying in Grade 6 at Tessban 2 Mukkhamontri School, Udon Thani, under Udonthani Municipality in the first semester of the academic year 2023. They were selected using cluster random sampling. The research was a one group pretest-posttest design. Research instruments included 12 lesson plans, An English-speaking ability test and an attitude questionnaire. The experiment lasted twelve weeks, 2 hours a week, or 24 hours in total. The mean, percentage, standard deviation and t-test for Dependent samples were used for data analysis. The findings of this research indicated that the students’ pretest and posttest scores examining of English-speaking ability were 66.03 percent and 81.32 percent respectively. The students’ English-speaking ability was significantly different at the .01 level, and the mean score on the posttest was also significantly higher than that of the pretest. In addition, more than 70 percent of students gained a higher score on the English-speaking posttest, and the students’ attitude towards teaching English-speaking using pair work and group work activities based on collaborative learning was at a very good level.
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