Development of Instruction Package on Congruent and Incongruent Collocations of High-Frequency Verbs : Do, Get, Give, Have, Make, Take

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to construct on English instruction package on congruent and incongruent collocations of high-frequency verbs: Do, Get, Give, Have, Make Take, 2) to compare English collocations competency for Business English students in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty, and 3) to examine the results of Varied-Spaced Repetition theory with the third-year students of Business English program.  This package was analyzed from the theory of Instruction Package from Chaiyong Promwong (2013) and the theory of Varied-Spaced Repetition from Pimsleur (1967).  The instruments were the instruction package to promote English collocations and an achievement test.  The participants consisted of 30 students at Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University.  The statistics used for the data analysis were the efficiency of values E1/E2 (80/80), mean, standard deviation, and dependent t-test.  The results were as follows: 1) the instruction package was efficient since it had the efficiency values with Step 1(1:1) at 92.38/84.11, Step 2(1:10) at 92.62/86.17, Step 3 (1:100) at 86.36/86.17, 2) The skills after using the collocation instruction package of the experimental group were significantly higher than that before using it at the .05 level.  3) the varied spaced repetition method towards the package was at the high level.