Designing Business English Tasks to Improve English Speaking Skill for Thai Manufacturing Staff in Beginner Level
The objectives of this research were: 1) to develop tasks of business English for Thai manufacturing staff for beginner level, 2) to examine the effectiveness of the designed tasks by; 2.1) to investigating the improvement of students, 2.2) to examining how well students can do the designed tas...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Thai |
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Mahasarakham University
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Education, Mahasarakham University |
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| Online Access: | https://edu.msu.ac.th/journal/home/journal_file/647.pdf |
| Summary: | The objectives of this research were: 1) to develop
tasks of business English for Thai manufacturing staff for
beginner level, 2) to examine the effectiveness of the designed
tasks by; 2.1) to investigating the improvement of students,
2.2) to examining how well students can do the designed
tasks, and 3) to explore students’ opinions towards using the
designed tasks. To explore the content of the designed tasks, the
researcher explored it by collecting needs results from a sample
group of thirty participants whose English proficiency is at
the beginner level of English at Hitachi Consumer Products
(Thailand) company limited. In terms of evaluating the
effectiveness of the designed tasks, the researcher investigated
its effectiveness by implementing the designed tasks with
the participants a period of five weeks. The instruments used
were: 1) questionnaire of needs analysis, 2) designed tasks
of sampled three units, 3) pre-test, post-test and unit tests
4) survey of opinions towards using designed tasks. The
data were analyzed using a paired sample t-test, mean score
and standard deviation comparing the scores of pre-test and
post-test, including mode used to statistically compare scores
of unit tests with pre-test and post-test. The results illustrated
that after using the designed tasks, the students’ needs of the
most important contents were relevant to giving a presentations, making a daily conversation and handling a telephone call. The results revealed
that the students’ mean score of their pre-test and post-test significantly improved,
including most of the students increased their competencies on each designed
during and post the implementation, and the majority of students expressed their
opinions towards using the designed tasks at a ‘strong’ level. |
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| ISSN: | 1905-9922 1905-9922 |