USING COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY OF MATTHAYOMSUKSA 4 STUDENTS
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The objectives of this study were to study and compare English speaking ability using communicative activities of Matthayomsuksa 4 students before and after the instruction, and study students' attitude toward teaching English speaking using communicative activities. The sample consisted of 32 Matthayomsuksa 4 students at Nongkhaiwittayakarn School, in the first semester of academic year 2023. They were selected by cluster random sampling. The design of this research was a one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments included 12 lesson plans, an English speaking ability test, and an attitude questionnaire. The experiment lasted 12 weeks, 2 hours a week or 24 hours for all. The mean, percentage, standard deviation, one sample t-test and t-test for Dependent Samples were employed for data analysis. The findings of this research indicated that the students' pretest and posttest mean scores on English speaking ability were 73.80 or 24.60 percent and 222.52 or 74.17 percent respectively. The students' posttest mean score was higher than the set criterion of 70 percent and it significantly higher than that of the pretest. The students' attitude towards teaching English speaking using communicative activities was collected using five-point Likert scale attitude questionnaire. The mean of students' attitude was 4.65 which was a very good level.
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