THE DEVELOPMENT ENGLISH CONVERSATION SKILLS FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS BY USING ONLINE RESOURCES

Abstract

At present, there are numerous media resources available for teachers to use in learning development. English conversational skills are essential both for daily life and for language learning. Therefore, this research aims to design learning activities suitable for the existing media, create activity sets and develop English conversational skills for upper elementary students by: 1) identifying themes, topics, and objectives for conversation, 2) selecting appropriate online learning media, 3) designing learning activities, 4) evaluating the quality of the selected activity sets by experts in curriculum and instruction and in English language, totaling 26 people, and 5) studying the achievement of conversational skills from student volunteers, with 10 students per group, for a total of 7 groups, then assessing the students' conversational skills and gathering their feedback on the learned activity sets. The research findings were seven sets of English conversational skill learning activities for elementary students, using online media as the primary tool for creating dialogues and designing learning activities. Experts deemed these sets to be the most appropriate. When bringing the learning activity packages to use with the most students, they can improve their English conversational skills and express satisfaction with the activities. Only a few students still had issues with pronunciation.