The Development of English Speaking Ability Using Communicative Language Teaching of Undergraduate Students at Kalasin University
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The purposes of this research were to 1) study students’ English speaking
ability using communicative language teaching and 2) develop students’ English
speaking ability using communicative language teaching for GE 10003 English 3 of the
political science second-year students with bachelor's degrees in the Faculty of Arts
before and after the intervention. The sample consisted of 30 second year students
of political science at Kalasin University, 10003 English 3 in the first semester of the
academic year 2022. They were selected by cluster random sampling. The design of
this research was a one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments
included lesson plans and an English speaking ability test. The experiment in 6
weeks, 3 hours a week, or 18 hours for all. The mean, standard deviation, percentage
and t-test for (dependent samples) were employed to analyze the data. The results
revealed the following: 1) English speaking ability using communicative language
teaching for GE 10003 English 3 of the political science second-year students with
bachelor's degrees after the experiment was 42.46 and 84.95 respectively posttest
score higher than pretest score at .05 level of significantly statistics. 2) The
satisfaction of the students with teaching English speaking ability using
communicative language after the experiment was higher at a statistically significant
level of .05.
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