The Development of Mandarin Chinese Speaking Skills through Role Play Activities Based on Active Learning of Grade 5 Students at Srikird Municipality School 1

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study learning achievement of applying the role play activities in order to develop Mandarin Chinese speaking skill of primary school students. The samples in this research were 34 primary school students who studied in grade 5/3 at Srikird Municipality School 1 and also took an elective course in Mandarin Chinese for Communication. The experiment was carried out for 15 periods in the second semester of the academic year 2016. The instruments used and data collection were 1) eight lesson plans focusing on role play activities and 2) Pre-Post Mandarin Chinese speaking skills evaluation. Data were analyzed using statistical tools consisted of Median (Average), Standard Deviation (SD), Percentage and T-Test for dependent sample. The method of analyzing data was the computer program processing software.Research findings were as followed; 1) there were 95.81 percentages resulted in learning achievement of applying the role play activities in order to develop Mandarin Chinese speaking skill of grade 5/3 primary school students and 2) the students improved their Mandarin Chinese speaking skill for communication after applying the role play activities being significant at 0.05 level.