The Use of Task-based
Learning to Develop English Speaking
Bancha Yooyong. (2008).
Speaking English, the international language, can
open your ways and give you a lot of opportunities to do many advantages thing
in 21st century. Not only in school lessons or working, but English could bring
you to the other cultures and wisdom. Following the before sentences, it can be
said that English is the powerful language. However, it is not easy for most of
English for Second Language (ESL) learners to speak English fluently.
Especially, ones who have not learnt since they were young. Accordingly, it is
the responsibility for teacher to find the ways to solve these problems. One of
the ways to encourage and improve students' English speaking ability is
task-based learning. Accordingly,The Use of Task-based Learning to
Develop English Speaking study will be guided. Could the task-based
learning develop students English speaking? And what are they consist of?
Before teaching someone effectively, to try out the
way to teach them appropriately is still needed. In this study task-based
learning plays the important role in teaching method and learning style.The
purposes is to develop English speaking ability of Mattayomsuksa 2
students at Banmarkkaeng School in Udon Thani Province through task-based
learning. The
informants
were 20 Mattayomsuksa 2 students gained via random sampling. The instruments
used
for collecting data were three lesson plans, a pre-post speaking test, a
teacher’s
observation
form and a students’ self-assessment form. The data were statistically analyzed
by
mean, standard deviation, and t-test for dependent samples.
The
results of this study indicated that the English speaking ability of
Mattayomsuksa 2
students
through task-based learning after the experiment was significantly higher at
the .01
level.
It means that the task-based learning was very useful in English language
learning for Mattayomsuksa 2 students. Students can improve their English
speaking skill through the tasks.
It
encourages students to learning by doing that could make them more memorable.
To summarize, to teach students speaking
fluently is not an easy task for teacher. Moreover, if teachers teach the
speaking skill in the the language that is not the mother tongue, it will be
more difficult. Teachers have to find the the way to teach and support them in
learning speaking appropriately. According to this issue, the task-basked learning
is focused. Besides, the result of the issue was good. The students could
learn speaking through doing the tasks. Their English speaking ability was
developed. The use of task-based is not only to develop students English
speaking, but improve students the ways to communicate in real world also.
Therefore, task-based learning is a good choice for developing English speaking
that should be applied in EFL classes.
________________Vocabulary_________________
Word
Function Sound
Meaning
statistically adv.
information based on a study
of the number of times
something happens or is present, or other numerical facts
ทางสถิติ
Reference: Bancha Yooyong,
2008. THE USE OF TASK-BASED LEARNING TO DEVELOP ENGLISH SPEAKING
ABILITY
