Effects of Using the Learning Package’s Letter Sound Activities from Teacher to Students to Promote English Final Consonant Pronunciation Skills of Grade 8 Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to 1) compare students’ skills of English final consonant pronunciation and 2) study the satisfaction with The Learning Package’s Letter Sound Activities from Teacher to Students of Grade 8 Students. The population of the study is 30 Matthayomsuksa 2.2 students studying at Matthayom Wat Nongkhaem school. The sample of the study is 5 Matthayomsuksa 2.2 students selected from the students who get the lowest marks from the English final consonant pronunciation test.                    The instruments applied in data collecting are the English final consonant pronunciation test, the pronunciation packages for promoting English final consonant pronunciation, Pre-test and Post-test, and the satisfaction with The Learning Package’s Letter Sound Activities from Teacher to Students. The statistics used in the study were the percentage of the posttest of learning package's Letter Sound activities from teacher to students, mean, standard deviation. The study’s findings revealed that after comparing the students' English final consonant pronunciation skills by contrasting the students' pre-test and post-test scores, it was found that the students had obtained the mean score of posttest amount 4.20 (S.D. = 0.58) and the posttest of learning by using the learning package's Letter Sound activities from teacher to students that were amount 80.95 percentages. The satisfaction with The Learning Package’s Letter Sound Activities from Teacher to Students of grade 8 students in overall aspects was at the highest level (Mean = 4.54, S.D.= 0.69).

Keywords: pronunciation, English final consonants sound, English phonetics, fricative consonant sounds, learning packages