THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY USING COMMUNICATIVE TASKSOF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ATKALASIN UNIVERSITY

Year 2018, Volume: 4 Issue: 11, 216 - 224, 27.08.2018

Kamollapat Chaisongkram

Abstract

The purposes of the effective
goal which aim of study English speaking to encourage and improve learners
speak fluency and accurate of this research were: 1) to study and compare
scores testing by the English speaking ability tests before and after studying
through Communicative Tasks of undergraduate students using three communicative tasks at Kalasin University in Kalasin, Thailand, classified by high,
medium, and low, according to
their abilities of English speaking ability level and 2) to study the students’ feeling learning English speaking
attitudes  towards teaching English
speaking using Communicative Tasks. The sample consisted of 9 first-year
undergraduate students at Kalasin
University, Kalasin Province, Thailand in the second semester of
the academic year 2017 classified by high, medium, and low proficiency level
according to their abilities. The research was a one group pretest-posttest
design. The research instruments included 12 lesson plans with English speaking
using Communicative Tasks, an English speaking ability test consist of quizzesand
an attitude questionnaire. The instrument employed were percentage that concern
with scores of speaking English test focus on
pretest and posttest, Mean, Standard Deviation, and t-test for Dependent
Samples that examines toward English speaking
test of the similar between a pretest and posttest. The findings for
this research of the students’ leaning speaking English
using Communicative Tasks were as follows: 1) the students’
pretest were 35.22 or 32.02 percent and increased English
speaking skill toward posttest mean score on English speaking ability test
were 94.56 or 85.96 percent respectively. The posttest score of the students’
leaning speaking using Communicative Tasks was significantly higher than
that of the pretest.  2) The students’ feeling learning English using
attitude towards teaching English speaking ability using Communicative
Tasks was at a very good level(Χ =4.90). 

Keywords

English Speaking Ability, Communicative Tasks, attitude

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