Development of English for Communication and Techniques for Effective Job Interviews and Preparations for Effective Work Performance for Suan Dusit University’s Second Year Students of Second Semester of 2017

Abstract

The research was carried out to fulfill the main objectives to help 27 second-year students of second semester of academic year of 2016’s Culinary Technology & Services program to develop core English communicative skills. Regarding the tools used, relevant useful tests were conducted in which the tests processes were comprised of: 1) Pre-test: 20 questions of aptitude test related to job interviews. 2) Post-test: which comprised of resume’ writing, oral/Q/A tests given at the end of the semester to test the students’ speaking and responding abilities to the questions related to job interviews with an aim to test and to improve their understanding of parts of speech and correct usage of vocabulary, and 3) Questionnaires to measure their satisfaction (5-level Likert scale) which ranges from 1 as least satisfaction to 5 as most satisfaction and was analyzed by using descriptive statistics. Hence, the Pre-test result indicates the average score of 45%. Regarding Post-test, the result shows the average of 64%. In addition, the questionnaires’ results relevant to satisfaction towards conducted English training activities to improve the 4-core skills and better understanding of job interviews and resume’ writing indicate the score of 4.00 (high satisfaction) with the highest aspect towards resume’ writing enhancement at 4.33 (high satisfaction). For the low aspect consistings of , unable to comprehensively read and analyze job classified ads, and unable to fully grasp and understand the whole job interview conversational contexts score at 3.33. To make the process more credible, conversational test (mock-up interviews) was also applied with the moderate score of 68%. In conclusion, the end result of the questionnaires shows a high satisfactory level at 4.05.