The Development of English-Speaking Ability for Communicative Language Teaching Approach Integrated with Mnemonics Techniques for Grade 5 Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to compare the student's English-speaking ability by learning management communicative teaching approach integrated with mnemonics techniques, 2) to compare student's English vocabulary ability with a communicative language teaching approach integrated with mnemonics techniques with the committed 70 percent criterion, 3) to study student's attitude toward teaching English vocabulary using mnemonics techniques with the committed 70 percent criterion. The target group were 45 Pratomsuksa 5 students of Ban Makkaeng School, Muang Udon thani district, Udon Thani province, Udon Thani primary educational service area office 1 selected by cluster random sampling method. The research instruments were: 1) the six lesson plans by learning management communicative teaching approach integrated with mnemonics techniques, 2) English speaking competency test,
3) the 30-item test of English vocabulary learning ability, 4) the 10-item of survey on students’ satisfaction towards learning activities by using mnemonics techniques. The statistics used in the research study were mean, standard deviation, percentage, and one-sample t-test.

       The findings of the research were as follows: 1) English speaking of grade fifth students after using management communicative language teaching approach integrated mnemonics techniques the English-speaking skills was 75.38 which was higher than 70 percent threshold with statistical significance at the .05, 2) vocabulary learning skills of grade fifth students after using learning management by communicative language teaching approach integrated mnemonics techniques, the vocabulary learning skills show that the scores 78.33 which was higher than the 70 percent threshold with statistical significance at the .05, 3) the students were satisfied with the learning management communicative language teaching approach integrated mnemonics techniques at a high level.