Development of English Communicative Competence through

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• Development of English Communicative Competence
  through
• Problem-Based Learning (PBL) for Hotel Diploma
  Students in Year 1
• Mr. Rong Raungwong
• Aksorn Pattaya Technological College

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Research Problem How to increase students
English capacity

• Factors for Consideration
• - The 21st Century Skills (Learning and
  Innovation Skills)
• - The Basic Education Core Curriculum B.E. 2551
  (A.D. 2008)
• - The 2003 Curriculum for the Diploma of
  Vocational Education
• - The English Teaching Methodology
• - The Course Independent Study in English

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Research Objective

• To enable the 10 hotel diploma students
• to develop English Communicative proficiency
• through teaching method of Problem-Based
• Learning (PBL).

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Conceptual Framework

• Experimental Research with One Group Pre-Test and
  
• Post-Test Design
• (O1 - X - O2)            
• X treatment Problem-Based Learning -----gt
  Independent Variable
• O1 pre-test Before using treatment
• O2 post-test After using treatment -----gt
  Dependent Variable

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Population and Sample

• Population
• The 1st Year Diploma Students in Study Area of
  Tourism
• Industry in Semester 2 Academic Year 2012 of
  Aksorn
• Pattaya Technological College.
• Sample
• The 10 Hotel Diploma Students with Purposive
  Sampling in Semester 2
• Academic Year 2012 of Aksorn Pattaya
  Technological College.

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Tool for Collecting Data

• Teacher-made objective test
• 30 items of 4 multiple choices compiled from
• university tests in English subject.
• Find the quality with only content validity (IOC)
  
• from 3 specialists about teaching English.

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Procedures of PBL

• Propose the problematic situations or needs.
• Analyze and investigate reasons through schemata.
• Determine the learning scopes according to
  significance.
• Retrieve new knowledge through various resources.
• Exchange ideas among students with discussion.
• Generalize and apply new knowledge with daily
  life.

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Research Finding
Sample No. Pre-Test Pre-Test Post-Test Post-Test t
Sample No. X pre S.D. X post S.D. t
Diploma Hotel Students 10 16 4.08 20.9 3.28 7.66

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Summary

• After conducting the experiment with PBL, the
  researcher found that sample students had the
  average score increasingly, from 16 to 20.9.
• The learning achievement of the sample in the
  course of IS in English was increasing after
  instruction of PBL at the significance level of
  0.01. T value from the table at df 9 equals
  2.821. However, T value from calculation is 7.66.
  Therefore, it is true according to the hypothesis
  that is PBL acts as the efficient tool for
  developing English communicative competence.

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Recommendation

• Should conduct this study with the other levels.
• Should try out and adapt with each institutions
  context.
• Should extend the study about the effects or
  outcomes.
• Should use the other kinds of English teaching
  approaches.
• Should conduct the study with sample and control
  groups.