The Development of English Skills for Homestay Tourism through Community Participation for Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism Promotion: A Case Study of the Ra Bum Community, Lan Sak District, Uthai Thani Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research article were to 1) study the needs of using English for homestay tourism through the participation of Rabam Community, Lan Sak District, Uthai Thani Province; 2) explore the content needs of English lessons for promoting homestay tourism at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary; 3) create English lessons for homestay tourism at Huai Kha Khaeng

Wildlife Sanctuary; and 4) develop English language for homestay tourism through community participation at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary. The samples of this research, selected by purposive sampling, were 100 people comprising community leaders, local scholars, homestay travel agency, local government organizations, educational institutes and staff of Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Rabum Community, Lan Sak District, Uthai Thani Province.

The research instruments of this research were the questionnaire and English achievement test. The statistics for data analysis were mean, standard deviation and

t-test.

            The research results revealed as follows:

            1) The needs of using English for homestay tourism was overall at “high level” (  = 4.20).

            2) The content needs of English lessons for promoting homestay tourism at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary was overall, it was at “high level” (  = 4.08).

            3) There were processes of English lessons creation for homestay tourism as follows: 3.1) need inquiry; 3.2) objective setting; 3.3) content selection in accordance with objectives and learners; 3.4) content creation and activity sets; 3.5) activities definition and teaching methods; 3.6) assessment criteria setting; 3.7) content teaching and improvement; 3.8) teaching trail; and 3.9) content update completion.

            4) English for homestay tourism activities found that English achievement test results of the participants were higher than the pretest when statistical significance was set at .05 level.