THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY USING DRAMA AND DRAMA TECHNIQUES OF THIRD-YEAR ENGLISH-MAJOR STUDENTS IN FACULTY OF EDUCATION, KANCHANABURI RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to 1) study and compare the development of the English speaking ability using drama and drama techniques of the 3rd-year English-major students in Faculty of Education, Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University; 2) study the progress of the development of the English speaking ability using drama and drama techniques of the 3rd-year English-major students in Faculty of Education, Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University; and 3) study the students’ opinions of students on the development of their English speaking ability using drama and drama techniques. The target group consisted of 54 third- year English-major students in Faculty of Education, Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University, in the first semester of the 2018 academic year. The research tools were 1) 15 learning plans; 2) a pre-test and a post-test to assess English speaking skills; 3) an individual observation behavior record form; 4) a questionnaire to survey the students' opinions on the development of their English speaking ability using drama and drama techniques. The research was conducted for a period of 15 weeks, for 4 hours a week, with the total of 60 hours. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test.
The results showed that: 1) The students’ English speaking skills in the post-test were higher than those in the pre-test at the 0.01 level of statistical significance; 2) The students’ progress in the development of their English speaking skills was high; and 3) The average score of the students’ satisfaction with the development of their English speaking ability using drama activities was at a high level.