The study of the condition of developing English Communication Skills for Student at MAHAVAJIRALONGKORN RAJAVIDYALAYA school

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to 1) study the level of development English communicative skills for listening, speaking, reding and writing. 2) to compare the level of development English communicative skills for listening, speaking, reading and writing by classifying of classes and ages of students and 3) to study some problems involved and suggestions for developing English communicative skills. The target group used in this research were 42 students who were studying in M. 4-6 of Art section at Mahavajiralongkornrajavidyalaya School of second semester 2 academic year 2563 with purposive sampling. The instrument of this research was the questionnaire with 1-5 likert’s scale and having reliability of 0.94. The statistics used for analyzing data were Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, and One Way Analysis of Variance : ANOVA.

The research finding were as follows :

1. The level of English communicative skill developing of the students at this school of the whole was high. (Mean = 3.77, Standard Deviation=0 49), when considering of each part; it was high. as listening (Mean = 3.82, Standard Deviation = 0.44), reading (Mean = 3.82, Standard Deviation  0.55), speaking (Mean = 3.73, Standard Deviation = 0.54) and writing (Mean = 3.72, Standard Deviation = 0.65) respectively.


2. When comparing the level of communicative English skills of each listening skill, speaking skill, reading skill and writing skill by classifying all of them as class of study, and age of students, the research found that the comparison the level of communicative English skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing classifying by classes and ages of the whole and each part wasnot different. So they were not comply to the hypothesis of this research.


3. Suggestions about problem conditions and guidelines for developing English language skills for communication, It was found thatthere were some problems such as some students could not communicate English very well because of lacking of words and the meaning of them so they were unable to communicate English and could not follow the class as well. The suggestion for the teachers, the teachers should use techniques of remedial teaching and simplifying all topicsand applying technology to suit to individual differences effectively.