Using Self-Made Videos and Facebook Group to Promote Motivation and Satisfaction on the Speaking Skills of International Program Students

Abstract

Teaching listening and speaking as skills has been a challenge for EFL/ESL language instructors in Thailand as most students struggle to use the spoken language. Thus, this study focused on the motivation and satisfaction of learners in relation to their speaking skills using self-made videos and Facebook groups as a platform to go with online learning during pandemic times. The conceptual design comprises of different strategies and approaches carefully crafted geared towards achieving motivation and satisfaction in developing speaking skills. Yamane’s formula and random sampling, the fishbowl technique, were used to determine the number and select the participants who were first-year English-Chinese major students at Huachiew Chalermprakiet University taking IGE004, term 3 of 2020. This quantitative research utilized a descriptive research design aimed at using self-made videos and the Facebook group to be significant factors affecting motivation as well as achieving satisfaction in the learning of international program students in terms of developing speaking skills. It utilized an instructor-made questionnaire tested for reliability and validity. Statistically, data were analyzed through the most common method, the Likert Scales using frequency and percentage. The study yielded the following results: 1. self-made videos and Facebook group motivate students to a great extent in improving their speaking skills, with grammatical accuracy rated at very great extent, 2. the students are generally satisfied with the improvement on their speaking skills in terms with fluency and grammatical accuracy as well rated as “very satisfied.” Based on these results, recommendations are made for teachers to focus more on speech drills, vocabulary and grammatical accuracy and this backs up studies on utilization of student- centered approach with guided instruction, coupled with autonomous learning, employing real-life based activities in teaching and developing speaking skills.