THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING SKILLS OF PRIMARY 3 STUDENTS IN COVID-19 SITUATION THROUGH FLIPPED CLASSROOM CONCEPT INTEGRATING WITH CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH

Abstract

            The English language has become a very crucial part of everyone's life. English communicative skill especially speaking skill is an important foundation for students to interact with others. Now that in the crisis of COVID-19 situation, face-to-face teaching is not available. As the result, the lack of speaking competency can lead to ineffective communication. The purposes of this study were (1.) to develop and verify the efficiency of the Flipped Classroom lesson plan for Primary 3 students (2.) to investigate the effectiveness of the Flipped Classroom lesson plan for Primary 3 students (3.) to study the result of student’s English-speaking skill after learning by Flipped Classroom Concept and to examine students’ satisfaction on flipped classroom teaching. A mixed research method was used, collecting data through various sources, including pre-and post-tests on speaking skills, a questionnaire (“Students’ satisfaction on learning by Flipped Classroom Concept”), the teacher’s in-class observations. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics for data analysis including frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, average efficiency value, index of efficiency, and relative gain scores. The results of the research were as follows. 1) For the evaluation of the use of Flipped Classroom lesson plans for Primary 3 students, each of the lesson plans was averagely scored 4.44 – 4.50. Overall, the lesson plans were averagely scored at a high level (x̄= 4.46, S.D.= 0.89), the efficiency (E1/E2) was 82.74/84.3 which was higher than the preset criteria. 2) The index of efficiency of Flipped Classroom lesson plans was 0.57692, and the students' improvement increased 57.69 percent. 3) The students’ English-speaking skills analyzed from the relative gain scores of English-speaking skill development results showed that the percentage of pretest scores was 62.9 and the percentage of posttest score was 84.3, and the percentage of growth score was 62.14 of which was interpreted as high level. The results show that not only did students’ English-speaking skills were improved significantly but also the lesson was more engaging and active after the Flipped Classroom Concept was employed in their classroom. The findings of this study may benefit educators who are interested in applying technology in teaching English-speaking skills.