A curriculum development of English for local travel club to develop listening and speaking skills and the awareness of cultural heritage conservation for secondary students

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to study necessary information for curriculum development of English for Local Travel club activity, 2) to develop  English for Local Travel club activity, 3) to conduct try-out of the developed English for Local Travel club activity 4) to study learners’ opinions towards  the developed English for Local Travel club activity. The four-phase research and development were used as the research methodology with the following details.

 First phase was the study of necessary information for curriculum development of English for Local Travel club activity using an interview and a questionnaire. Second phase was conducted to develop the curriculum of English for Local Travel club activity. The instruments were curriculum and handbook for development of English for Local Travel club activity, curriculum suitability assessment scale, and user handbook. Third phase was try-out using One-Group Posttest Design. The instruments included listening-speaking ability test and awareness of cultural heritage conservation scale. Lastly, learners’ opinions towards the developed English for Local Travel club activity were surveyed using One-Group Pretest Posttest Design. The research instruments were the questionnaire used to collect the respondents’ opinions towards the developed English for Local Travel club activity. The statistics used to analyze the data were percentage, mean, standard deviation.

The results of this study : 1) 1)The study could lead to obtained necessary information for curriculum development of English for Local Travel club activity in terms of curriculum content development. 2) The developed curriculum of English for Local Travel club activity consisted of the following components, namely background and significance, principles, purposes, learning substances, curriculum structure, guidelines for learning activities, media and learning resources, measurement and evaluation, and the role of involving personnel.The suitability of the developed curriculum was at the highest level ( =4.84, S.D.=0.38). The suitability of handout and teaching materials was at the highest level ( =4.71,S.D.=0.47). 3) Post-test score on English listening ability was 82.60% and score on English speaking ability was 79.80 %, higher than the set standard criteria with a statistical significance level of .05. 4) The samples’ opinions towards  the developed English for Local Travel club activity was at a high level ( 4.26, S.D.=0.61).