The Effects of Using Role Play Activities to Enhance English Speaking Skills of Level 1 Vocational Certificate Students
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The purposes of this research were to 1) compare English speaking skills before and after using Role Play activities, and 2) investigate the students’ satisfaction toward learning and teaching management using Role Play activities to develop English speaking skills. The sample of this research were thirty students of certificate level 1, Hospitality department at Suphanburi Vocational College. They were selected by cluster random sampling. The instruments of this research were: 1) The workbook to enhance speaking skills using Role-Play activities 2) Four lesson plans of learning and teaching management using Role-Play activities 3) English speaking pretest and posttest 4) The speaking assessment form and 5) a questionnaire to measure students’ satisfaction toward the learning and teaching management using Role-Play activities. The experiment was conducted in four weeks, two hours per week, eight hours in total. The dependent t-test, mean and standard deviation (S.D.) were used to analyze the data. The results of this research were as follows: 1) The English speaking skills after using Role Play activities were significantly higher than before at .05 level. and 2) The students’ satisfaction toward Role Play activities to develop English speaking skills was at the highest level.
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