Results of Using Tasks to Improve English Speaking, Communication Strategies, Risk Taking of Mattayomsuksa II

Abstract

            The purposes of this research were 1) to develop instructional plans for Mattayomsuksa II students using communicative task activities to meet the required efficiency of 70/70  2) to determine the effectiveness of these English learning activities 3) to compare the learning achievement in English speaking of students who learned through the communicative task activities  4) to study communicative strategies of the students learning through communicative task activities and 5) to study risk taking of the students learning through the communicative task activities. The samples for this research consisted of Mattayomsuksa II students from 2 classes studying in the academic year 2014 at Kalasinpittayasan School in this study was 79 student who were obtained through cluster random sampling. The instruments used in this study were instructional plans, oral test of English speaking skills, a communication strategies evaluation form and a risk-taking behavior observation form. The statistics used for data analyses were means, standard deviation, percentage and t-test.  The results of this research are as follows ; 1. The efficiency of the instructional plans are 71.10/73.37 and  74.02/77.32  2. The effectiveness index of the instructional plans are 0.5633 and 0.6297  3. The average score in speaking skills of the students who learned through the Poster Carousel is higher than that of the students who learned through the Headline and Art Gallery at the .05 level of statistical significance.  4. The average scored in communicative strategies are 75.26 and 82.88 respectively.  5. The average scored in risk taking are 76.83 and 82.39 respectively.