Teachers’ perception of three communicative activities: Information gap, Role play and Simulation at schools in The Secondary Educational Service Area Office Bangkok1

Abstract

The research purpose were to investigate the perception of English secondary school teachers under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Bangkok 1 2) to examine factors affecting the teachers’ perception of three communicative activities: Information gap, Role play and Simulation including differences of demographic factors – age, year of teaching experience and education level, and 3) to study the obstacles of three communicative activities: Information gap, Role play and Simulation. The target groups were 275 teachers under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Bangkok 1. The purposive sampling was used to select the samples. The instrument for collecting data was the questionnaire. The data were analyzed and presented by Mean, Standard Deviation, and One-Way ANOVA.

          The results revealed as follows: 1) Teachers under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Bangkok 1 perceived three communicative activities: Information gap, Role play and Simulation as whole and in each activity at a high level. 2) There were statistically significant differences among those teachers with different age, year of teaching experience and education level at the significant level at .05. Excepting the perception of English secondary school teachers at different education level with Role paly activity had no difference.