Chunyue Guo. Management of English language teaching through social media application to create motivation for learning. Master's Degree(). Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi. Office of Academic Resource and Information Technology. : มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลธัญบุรี, 2567.
Management of English language teaching through social media application to create motivation for learning
Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to: 1) develop a social media application to expand the education function of modern internet technologies, 2) study the level of motivation of grade 6 students using social media application to enhance their spoken English achievement, and 3) compare the pretest (before-experiment) and posttest (after-experiment) of English-speaking test scores of grade 6 students using the social media for learning.
The samples of the study were 95 students studying in grade 6. They were assigned into two classes as an experimental group of 47 students and a control group of 48 students. The research instruments were: 1) popular social media in People's Republic of China, 2) learning materials sent through the social media-based learning application to enhance students speaking abilities, 3) conformity assessment forms, 4) an assessment on grade 6 students speaking abilities who had learned from a social media-based application, and 5) a questionnaire on learning interest motivation. The statistical devices used in the study were mean and standard deviation.
The research results revealed that: 1) the social media application enabled to expand the education function of the social media better than using a social media only for daily communication. More importantly, the social media application was used by primary school English teachers for teaching spoken English of primary school students. 2) The students motivation after using social media application dealt with an awareness of learning at the higher level with the average score of 3.78. The students participation in and out of classes was at the higher level with the average score of 3.87. The students confidence and satisfaction was also at the higher level with the average score of 3.88, and 3) the students who studied with social media applications (experimental group) had the higher score on the English speaking test than those in the control group with the mean score of 13.77/9.46 at the statistically significance level of .05.