RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AN ONLINE TRAINING COURSE TO ENHANCE TEACHER COMPETENCY IN CREATING DIGITAL MEDIA FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

Abstract

The education in the 21st century, which is a technology based paradigm, technology plays an important role to prepare English skills of learners. Teachers became facilitators to design learning activities and encourage them to grow their English competency through digital media so teachers need to develop their technology competency. This research aimed to develop an online training course to enhance teacher competency in creating digital media for teaching English in Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, Thailand. Research and development methodology (R&D) was applied for this study in the academic year 2020. There were 4 stages of research procedure consisted of 1) needs assessment, 2) creating of online training course, 3) trials phase, and 4) course evaluation. The participants were 71 English teachers selected from 189 English teachers in affiliated schools by G*Power software. The data were collected through questionnaires, tests and assessment form. Descriptive statistics were applied for quantitative data while one sample t-test and also dependent sample t-test were used for hypothesis testing. The result of this research indicated that the online training course reached the criteria of efficiency index and effectiveness index. In addition, it affected teachers' competency in creating digital media for teaching English with the statistical significance. The implication and recommendation were also discussed.