Enhancing Undergraduate Students’ Active Learning through an English Project
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This study was a qualitative research conducted to discover undergraduate students’ opinions and views concerning active learning after completing an English project. Applying the cluster sampling and the lottery method. the samples were 85 undergraduate students who enrolled the general English course in the second semester of the 2022 academic year at Udon Thani Rajabhat University. A questionnaire as open-ended question was applied as a single research instrument for data collection. The acquired data was analyzed towards thematic analysis and percentage. Results were revealed that four positive comments frequently mentioned from the undergraduate students were: (1) the English project developed the undergraduate students’ speaking skill (86.76%) (2) the undergraduate students gained new knowledge regarding video editing (63.23%) (3) the undergraduate students enjoyed doing the English project (57.35%) and (4) the undergraduate students comprehended individual differences as the team (39.70%). Although the English project produced positive effects but there were still three problems reported from the undergraduate students. These problems were: (1) the weak Wi-Fi signal made the English project ineffective (27.94%); (2) the undergraduate students’ different private time brought about unsuccessful collaborative working (17.64%); and (3) the undergraduate students’ deficient writing skill affected for writing subtitles of the English project (11.76%). These results were empirical evidence that would be reported to the general English course for further development.
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