Webblog Development for encouraging in learning General English for undergraduate students at Poh-Chang Academy of Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin

Abstract

The objective of this research was to develop webblog for encouraging in learning General English for undergraduate students at Poh-Chang Academy of Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin. The type of this research was experimental research using the one-group pretest-posttest design. The sample group contained 15 people who were undergraduate students registering in General English of 1st semester of academic year 2011 at Poh-Chang Academy of Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin. The contents in webblog consisted of three units : Unit 1 Nice to meet you, Unit 2 North and South and Unit 3 Changing workspace. The results of this study were as follows : 1) The efficiency of webblog development was 78.33/75.11 2) The differences between the pretest score and the posttest score were at the significant level of .05 ; ie, the posttest score was higher than the pretest score 3) The satisfaction of the sample group using webblog was high level.