Effects of Content-Based Instruction Using Six-T's Approach on English Oral Presentation Skills of Lower Secondary School Students

Abstract

The sample of the classroom unit-based simple sampling consisted of a class of 45 ninth grade students divided into 15 groups in Streesmutprakan School who enrolled English for Scientific Presentation Course in term 2, academic year 2016. The duration of the experiment was taken place for 8 weeks. The instruments were an English oral presentation evaluation scale which was used before and after conducting content-based instruction using Six-T’s approach and semi-structured interview. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test and content analysis. The finding shows that 1) the English speaking post-test mean scores was higher that pre-test at the significant level of 0.05 2) students had positive opinions towards the content-based instruction using Six-T’s approach on English oral presentation skills.