การวิจัยปฏิบัติการเพื่อพัฒนาทักษะการสื่อสารภาษาอังกฤษ ของนักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 3 โรงเรียนบ้านม่วง สำนักงานเขตพื้นที่การศึกษาประถมศึกษาขอนแก่น เขต 1

Abstract

The purposes of this research were : 1) to examine problems concerning English communicative skills for Mathayomsuksa 3 students at Banmoung school, 2) to investigate expectations, and to establish the guidelines for developing English communicative skills for Mathayomsuksa 3 students, 3) to study the effects, and to compare English communicative skills of students before and after the intervention, and 4) to explore the students’ satisfaction toward the development of English communicative skills. The target group consisted of 17 Mathayomsuksa 3 students in academic year 2018. The research instruments included: 1) an interview form, 2) lesson plans, 3) pretest and posttest forms for communicative skills evaluation, 4) an end-of-spiral test form for communicative skills, and 5) a satisfaction interview form. Qualitative data was analyzed by content analysis, and quantitative data was analyzed to obtain percentage, mean, standard deviation, and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

            The research findings were as follows:

1. The problems of students’ English communicative skills revealed that all students did not pass the assessment criteria of 60 percent. Most students were unable to communicate their opinions. Students having ability to read and write words were found. Some students were unable to translate their thoughts into words, and write sentences.


2. The expectations concerning students’ English communicative skills included having ability to summarize from the story they listened to, to communicate their thoughts and ideas, to identify the main ideas, and to translate the words from the reading texts. Students passed the criteria scores of 60 percent with the total number of students passing criteria minimally 70 percent of all students. The guidelines for developing students’ English communicative skills were students should learn more vocabularies, practice their listening skills using various multimedia, simple conversations, do pair work and role play, and read pronunciation exercises and simple short stories. They should also practice writing correct sentences and writing essays about pictures.


3. The effects after the development of students’ English communicative skills through three spirals of the action research revealed that 15 students passed the criteria at 88.24 percent of all students. The comparison results of students’ English communicative skills were statistically higher than those of before the intervention at a significance level of .01.


4. Most students satisfied and felt confident to communicate in English.