Effects of a metacognitive strategy training on English oral Communication ability of undergraduate students

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to investigate 1) effects of metacognitive strategy training focusing on awareness of Oral Communication Strategies (OCSs) use toward the students’ oral communication ability and 2) students’ awareness of OCSs use in their retrospective verbal report protocol. The subjects were 12 undergraduate students (second year) who study at Rajamungala University of Technology Thunyaburi and were placed in low oral communication ability. The instruments in this research were English oral communication ability pretest and posttest. The data were analyzed using frequency, t-test and content analysis. The finding of the study revealed that 1) participants’ frequency use of achievement OCSs in the posttest got higher than the pretest, also the use of reduction OCSs got reduced in the posttest and the mean scores from oral communication ability posttest got higher than the mean scores from oral communication ability pretest at the significant level .05 and 2) students showed awareness of using OCSs in the posttest retrospective verbal report protocol.