Promoting Creative Skills Through Greek Mythology EFL Online Classroom for Undergraduate Students
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This study aimed to examine the creative abilities through Greek mythology EFL online Classroom and investigate the students’ attitude toward the Greek mythology EFL online classroom of English major students, at Chiang Rai Rajabhat University. Participants were 144 second-year students who enrolled in Mythological Background in Literature course during the semester 2nd of academic year 2021.The classroom was instructed through Microsoft Team online classroom arrangement. A mix-methods approach with purposive sampling was used in this study. The instruments were the course syllabus implementing activities that encourage students to develop their creative abilities, online questionnaire, and observation. Data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis with percentage, mean, standard deviation (S.D). The finding showed that participants enjoyed activities such as monster drawing (80.80%), photography (74.3%) and creating story-telling video clip (71.90%) respectively. They agreed that these activities help them expand their creative and innovative thinking skill, with the highest-level mean score of 4.52 (S.D.=0.8), followed by analytical and critical thinking skills at 4.23 (S.D.= 0.69), collaboration and team work at 4.21 (S.D. = 0.71), and language at 4.14 (S.D.=0.85)
Regarding the attitude, data revealed that participants were found to hold a positive attitude toward the Greek mythology EFL online classroom. They were very agreed at the highest score at 4.85 (S.D.= 0.75) that they prepared and did some self-research before study. However, limitations were observed that they have struggled with English speaking anxiety, and still performed as a passive learner as a result of a lack of confident, language competency, and inadequate literary background knowledge.
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