EFFECTS OF DATA-DRIVEN LEARNING USING ONLINE CORPUS TO ENHANCE GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGE OF STUDENTS IN ENGLISH FOR SCIENCES COURSE AT KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to: 1) investigate the effects of data-driven learning using online corpus to enhance students’ grammatical knowledge, 2) explore students’ opinions towards using data-driven learning using online corpus to enhance grammatical knowledge. This research was of an experimental design. The participants were selected by the purposive sampling method; 59 of them were majoring in Computer Science, Geo Informatics, and Information and Communication Technology and enrolled in English for Sciences, in the summer semester of academic year 2016 at Khon Kaen University. The experimental group, consisting of 29 students, experienced data-driven learning using online corpus while the control group of 30 students experienced conventional teaching. Both groups were tested with the pre-and posttest. The research instruments were lesson plans, worksheets, a pre-test and posttest, and a 5-rating Likert-scale questionnaire with open-ended questions. The data analysis used the statistics of t–test, means and standard deviation. The results showed that:

1) the post-test mean score of the experimental group was higher than the control group at a 0.05 level of significance, and

2) the result of the questionnaire indicated the average of 3.53 which means most students expressed positive agreement towards the data-driven learning activities and materials using online corpus.