Development of English Communication: Speaking Skills in Daily-Life of the First-Year Students English Program in Faculty of Education at MCU

Abstract

This research studied Development of English communication:speaking skills using conversation dialogue instruction teaching model of the first-year students in English major Faculty of Education at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The purposes of this research were 1) to study the development of speaking skills in daily-life of the first-year students in English major Faculty of Education at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. 2) to compare English speaking skills before and after using roleplay conversation instruction of 3) to study the satisfaction after using conversation instruction English speaking skills of the first year students. This study was used quasi - experimental research used Task based learning theory. Research area was Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Wang Noi Phra Nakorn Sri Ayuthaya Thailand. The sampling group was 43 students English Major of the first year of Faculty of Education room number two in the second semester of the 2023 academic year by purposing sampling.

The results of the research were as follows;

1) To study the roleplay conversation instruction about speaking skills for the first-year students in English Major, Faculty of Education at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, it was found that, Conduct a short discussion with the class about what they learned from the roleplay activity, Reinforce the importance of natural speech, listening skills, and confidence when speaking and Facilitate discussions where students can express their thoughts and feelings, reinforcing their speaking abilities through peer interaction.

2) To compare English speaking skills of the first-year students in English Major, Faculty of Education at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University before and after using roleplay conversation instruction. It is found that the before studying conversation dialogue instruction (pre-test), students scored an average of 7.50 in English-speaking from 20 scores). After studying conversation dialogue instruction (post-test), the scores raised up an average of 14.46 in English-speaking. 43 students were classified at a very good level of development and 7 students were classified at a good level of development. There was only a student classifying at a fair level of development.

 3) To study the satisfaction of students after using conversation instruction in developing English speaking skills of the first-year students in English Major, Faculty of Education at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya Universityr. It was found that, students' satisfaction after studying roleplay conversation instruction to develop English speaking skills in overall has an average mean score at 4.43 and S.D score at 0.07 which is at the high level of satisfaction. If it is considered as aspects, the aspects of "students can ask the questions" consisting of average means score at 4.53 and S.D. score at 0.57.