To successfully assess how language learners enhance their performance and achieve language learning goals, the four macro skills of listening, speaking reading and writing are usually the most frequently assessed and focused areas. However, speaking, as a productive skill, seems intuitively the most important of all the four language skills because it can distinctly show the correctness and language errors that a language learner makes. The main aims of this research were two fact. Firstly, to study and compare speaking skills of First Year students using three communicative activities (Discussion, Problem-Solving, and Role-Playing), and second one is to study the students? attitude towards teaching English speaking skills using the three communicative activities. The sample group consisted of 35 students at a First year in University of Computer Studies, Meiktila, Myanmar, classified by high, medium, and low according to their abilities of English speaking proficiency level. The design of the research were mixed method design. The quantitative data came from the speaking test and the students? attitude towards teaching English speaking. The qualitative data were drawn from a Learning Log, a semi-structured interview and a Teacher Journal. A one group pretest-posttest design was also employed. The research instruments were 7 lesson plans, an English speaking ability test, and an attitude questionnaire. Percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test for dependent samples were employed to analyze data quantitatively. The research findings were as follows: 1. the students? English speaking abilities after using the three communicative activities were significantly higher than before their use. (Pretest = 71.6; Posttest = 90.8). 2. The students? attitude towards teaching English speaking skills using the three communicative activities.
Skill, Speaking, interview, method design, test, communicative activities
IRE Journals:
Myat Myat Moe , Zinmar Hnin , Khin Moe Myint
"Developing The Students English Speaking Skills Using Communicative Activities Methods" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 3 Issue 2 2019 Page 320-324
IEEE:
Myat Myat Moe , Zinmar Hnin , Khin Moe Myint
"Developing The Students English Speaking Skills Using Communicative Activities Methods" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 3(2)