DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH FOR A COMMUNICATION SKILL ACTIVITY BASED ON THE CRITICAL THINKING APPROACH FOR 2ND YEAR ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS

            The purposes of this research were to: 1) develop an activity based on the critical thinking approach for the 2nd year English major students studying in Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University, Sakon Nakhon, Thailand in order to achieve the efficiency criteria of 75/75; and 2) compare the achievement scores of the pre–communicative skill with the post–communicative skill after using the developed activity. The sampling group consisted of 54 the 2nd year English major students studying in Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University, Sakon Nakhon, Thailand, in the 1st Semester, academic year 2015, selected by purposive random sampling. The research tools were the activity based on the critical thinking approach for the 2nd year English major students, and the learning achievement test. The research was a one–group pretest–posttest design. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, and t–test (Dependent Samples). The results of this research were as follows:
          1. The efficiency criteria of the activity based on the critical thinking approach for the 2nd year English major students were 86.36/84.00 which were higher than the set criteria of 75/75.
              2. The posttest average score of English communication skill of the students after learning and using the development activity was higher than the pretest score at the .01 level of significance.

Credit : Kittikorn Ruksapon

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