Applying Synthetic Phonics Approach to Enhancement of English Pronunciation and Learning Attitude of Policemen in Phayao; Preparedness for ASEAN Community

Authors

  • วัลลพ อยู่ดี English Department, School of Liberal Arts, University of Phayao, Phayao 56000
  • กุลธิดา คำมี English Department, School of Liberal Arts, University of Phayao, Phayao 56000
  • นัฎฐิรา คำขาด English Department, School of Liberal Arts, University of Phayao, Phayao 56000
  • นฤภร แสงศรีจันทร์ English Department, School of Liberal Arts, University of Phayao, Phayao 56000
  • สมพงษ์ รูปทรง English Department, School of Liberal Arts, University of Phayao, Phayao 56000

Keywords:

Synthetic phonics approach, English pronunciation, Learning attitudes

Abstract

The objective of this study was twofold, the first one was to investigate the effect of implementing the synthetic phonic on police officers’ English pronunciation and the second one was to study the attitudes of the police officers towards the synthetic phonics instruction. The instruments included lesson plans, pre and post tests, and close and open ended questionnaires. The gained data were statistically analyzed using mean and standard derivation (SD) and that on attitudes stemmed from the open ended questionnaires were descriptively summarized.

The research findings revealed as follows;

With regard to the capability of English word pronunciation, it was found that after the synthetic phonics instruction was employed, the participants gained more mean scores of posttest than that of pretest and the significant difference was at 0.05. In term of attitudes towards instruction, the participants possessed the positive attitudes to the synthetic phonics which was at the high level. In relation to favors and disfavors to the instruction, all of the participants favored the steps of pronouncing sounds, blending words, and varied teaching materials. Contrarily, a few participants relayed they disfavored words with more than one syllable since it was hard to pronounce. And apropos of problems and solutions for the instruction, the main problem was they required much time to practice pronouncing, especially sounds of [th]. There were four main suggestions; there should be much time to practice words with many sounds. Secondly, there should be more words on police officers’ fields. Thirdly, there should be more dialogues relating to policemen’ fields to practice. And the last one was there should be more activities emphasizing meanings of words.

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2019-07-02

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อยู่ดี ว., คำมี ก., คำขาด น., แสงศรีจันทร์ น., & รูปทรง ส. (2019). Applying Synthetic Phonics Approach to Enhancement of English Pronunciation and Learning Attitude of Policemen in Phayao; Preparedness for ASEAN Community. Trends of Humanities and Social Sciences Research, 3(2), 33–44. Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Humanties-up/article/view/200573

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2015): May - August

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