Development of English Pronunciation Skills through English Songs

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Suphakit Phoowong

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The purposes of this research were 1) to develop English pronunciation skills through English songs, 2) to compare the students’ learning achievements before and after studying through English songs, and 3) to investigate their satisfaction with the development of English pronunciation skills through English songs. The samples were composed of 35 English program freshmen in group 2 who were enrolled on the “English Phonetics” course in the second semester of the academic year 2014 at the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University, selected by the simple random sampling method. The instruments consisted of a pre-test and post-test, six sets of lesson plans and a satisfaction questionnaire. The statistics of this research were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and a dependent sample t-test. The results revealed that the students’ achievement after studying through English songs was overall found to be at a high level. The samples’ post-test scores after studying were significantly higher than the pre-test scores at a statistical level of .01. Finally, their satisfaction with developing English pronunciation through English songs was overall found to be at a high level. Taking each aspect of the program into consideration, all were also found to be at a high level: the instructor was ranked first, followed by instructional activities, contents, pronunciation skills and pronunciation exercises respectively. Keywords: Language development, English pronunciation skills, English songs, innovative language teaching methods