A Development of English Speaking Skills for Everyday with Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) of First Year Special Education and Thai Language Major Students in the Faculty of Education Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University

Abstract

          The objectives of the research article were 1) to develop of English Speaking skills for everyday with Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to meet a standard efficiency of 70/70, 2) to compare the students’ to compare the students’ English Speaking skills for every day before and after learning through the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), 3) to investigate the students’ Satisfaction toward English learning activities by Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The samples, obtained through cluster random sampling, were 31 students. The research instruments were teaching plans using Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), a speaking skill test, and a satisfaction questionnaire. The data obtained from the pretest and posttest were statistically analyzed, using a t-test for dependent groups. In addition, the data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed by means of arithmetic mean and standard deviation.

         The findings were as follow s: 1. The efficiency of the English Speaking skills for every day with Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) had a value of 73.25/74.46 which was higher than the set value of 70/70. 2. After the intervention, the students had higher mean scores of speaking skills than that of before at a .05 level of significance. 3. Furthermore, the students’ overall satisfaction towards the teaching of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) was at a high level, Mean= 4.31, standard deviation = 0.64.