The development of English speaking skills for business presentation and business ethics awareness using supplementary lessons of office management students
12 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2021
Date Written: June 13, 2021
Abstract
The purposes of this research were: 1) to develop the Office Management students’ English speaking skill for business presentation after learning through supplementary lessons based on business presentation and business ethics awareness; 2) to raise Office Management students’ business ethics awareness, and 3) to explore Office Management students’ opinions toward supplementary lessons based on business presentation and business ethics awareness. This research sample was 35 fourth-year Office Management students at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Chiang Mai. They enrolled in the Job Application course in the second semester of 2019. The students were selected based on a purposive sampling technique. The research instruments were: 1) 4 supplementary lessons based on business presentation and business ethics awareness, 2) a pretest and posttest on English speaking skill for business presentation, 3) a pretest and posttest on business ethics awareness, and 4) a questionnaire on opinions toward the supplementary lessons based on business and business ethics awareness. The data were analyzed by mean(x ̅), standard deviation (S.D.), and t-test for dependent samples. The results of this research were as follows:1) level of students’ English speaking skill for the business presentation was significantly higher than those before the experiment at the 0.01 level 2) level of students’ business ethics awareness after the experiment was significantly higher than those before the experiment at the 0.01 level, and 3) Students’ opinions toward supplementary lessons based on business presentation and ethics awareness were ranked at an outstanding level.
Keywords: English speaking skill, Business Presentation, Business Ethics Awareness, Supplementary Lessons
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