Effectiveness of Online Lessons on English Sound System and Pronunciation for University Students
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The objectives of this research were to 1) develop online lessons on English sound system and pronunciation for the generic person and determine its efficiency and 2) investigate learners’ learning achievement before and after employing online lessons. The samples were composed of 30 Non-English majors of Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University students who enrolled in the Fundamental English courses of the Language institute during the first semester of the academic year 2022, selected by the purposive sampling technique. The instruments consisted of the online lessons, an achievement test, and a quality evaluation form for the online lessons to be filled in by the experts. The statistics of this research were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and a dependent sample t-test. The findings indicated that the effectiveness of online lessons was 75.55/78.44. Moreover, the learners’ achievement after learning via online lessons was higher than before, which was significantly different at the 0.05 level. Based on the experts’ evaluation, the quality of the online lessons was overall found to be at a very good level (mean 4.26, and standard deviation at 0.32).
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