Learning Grammar through Task-Based Activities : A Case Study of First-Year English Majors at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University
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The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the use of task-based
activities helped students improve their learning achievement in learning
English grammar on simple present tense. The samples were 40 first-year
English majors who took English grammar 1 in the first semester of acadeic
year 2014 at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. They were selected by
a simple random sampling. The research instruments included a pre-test and
a post-test, lesson plans using task-based activities. The statistical procedures
for data analysis were arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The
result of the study found that the students had average score of the post-test
higher than the average score of the pre-test with statistical significance at the
critical level of 0.01. This showed that learning English grammar on simple
present tense through task-based activities highly helped the students to
improve their learning achievement.
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