The Development of English Speaking Ability using Task-Based Learning of Undergraduate Students
Keywords:
English speaking ability, task-based learningAbstract
The purposes of this research were to study and compare the English speaking ability before and after using task-based learning of undergraduate students. The samples consisted 30 undergraduate students from Northeastern University, Muang, Khon Kaen, in the first semester of the 2019 academic year. They were selected by cluster random sampling. The design of this research was a one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments included 10 lesson plans and an English speaking ability test, reliability of 0.96. The experiment lasted 10 weeks, 2 hours a week, or 20 hours in total. Statistics used in the study were mean, percentage, standard deviation, one-sample t-test and t-test for dependent samples.
The findings of the research were: the students’ pretest and posttest scores on the English speaking ability test were 135.66 or 45.22 percent and 212.24 or 70.75 percent respectively and their posttest score for speaking ability was higher than their pretest.
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