The Development of Computer-Assisted Musical Pronunciation Courseware for English Suprasegmentals (การพัฒนาโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์ช่วยฝึกสำหรับการเรียนรู้การเน้นหนักในคำ และทำนองเสียงภาษาอังกฤษ โดยใช้เพลงเป็นสื่อประกอบ)

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to develop computer-assisted musical pronunciation
courseware for teaching English suprasegmentals. 2) to enhance students’ abilities in proper
English suprasegmentals via a constructed computer-assisted musical pronunciation (CAMP)
courseware, and 3) to investigate the students’ attitudes toward the use of the courseware. The
subjects of the study were 30 volunteers who were second year business students enrolled in the
second semester of the 2010 academic year at Khon Kaen University. The design of the study was
one-group pre-test/post-test. The research instruments consisted of 1) a constructed CAMP
courseware, 2) a pre-test and post-test, and 3) an attitude questionnaire. For data analysis,
t-test was used to analyze the significant change between the pre-test and post-test scores.
The results of the study: 1) The efficiency (E1/E2) of the developed the computer-assisted
musical pronunciation (CAMP) courseware were 83.57/91.33. The figures effectiveness index
was 0.86. The results were higher than the criterion of efficiency at 80/80 and the effectiveness
index was 0.80. 2) the subjects’ overall post-test scores were higher at the significance level
p<0.05 and 3) they expressed positive attitudes toward the use of the CAMP courseware.