The Implementation of Vocabulary Mind Mapping to Enhance Business English Vocabularies of Vocational Certificate I Students
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This classroom research aimed to examine the implementation of the vocabulary mind mapping teaching technique in recalling and memorizing learned business English vocabularies of Vocational Certificate I students at Hatyai Amnuaywit Technological College, Songkhla Province. Selected by the purposive sampling technique, the sample consisted of 36 students who enrolled for English for Office Work in the academic year 2021. The research instruments contained the pre-test and the post-test divided into five lexical sets, five lesson plans, and five vocabulary mind-mapping teaching activities. The obtained data was analyzed by the SPSS software. The statistics used to analyze the data were mean, percentage, standard deviation, and paired sample t-test. The study revealed that students’ abilities in recalling and memorizing their learned
business English vocabularies were obviously increased after using the vocabulary mind mapping teaching activities in the classes, with the mean score of the pre-test at 14.11 and the mean
score of the post-test at 25.86, while the result of the paired sample t-test marked statistically
significant difference at .05. This study suggests that the vocabulary mind mapping teaching
technique should be applied for business English classes since it plays a significant role in English
learning of Thai EFL vocational students.
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