Students’ English Business Writing Skills Development through Intercultural Emails
คำสำคัญ:
Intercultural Emails, Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), Writing Tasks, Formal and Informal Word, Business Writingบทคัดย่อ
This paper examines the development of Thai EFL students’ English business writing proficiency through the use of intercultural email tasks adopted the idea of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and collaborative learning for future business staff. The purposes of this quasi-experimental research are to 1) compare the effectiveness of student’s intercultural email writing between pre-test and post-test, and 2) examine the students’ vocabulary use in writing business emails compared between pre-test and post-test. The samples include 33 students enrolled in English for Business Communication 1 at the University of Phayao in 2019 academic year. The instruments were intercultural email tasks, pre-test, and post-test scores. The data was then analyzed using descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation, and paired t-test for quantitative data.
The results of this study revealed that there was a significant difference of student’s intercultural email writing ability compared between pre-test and post-test at 0.01 significant levels. Furthermore, the students used more polite words in email writing for the post-test. The body of knowledge gained from the present study indicates that students can learn and practice intercultural email writing through TBLT.
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