Enhancing Final Consonant Pronunciation Skill of the First Year Students at Nakhonratchasima Rajabhat University through e-Learning

The purposes of this study were to investigate whether final consonant E-learning package can enhance first year NRRU students’ pronunciation skill and to find out the students’ opinions regarding using final consonant E-learning package. The subjects of this study were thirty five undergraduate first year non-English major students of the academic year 2010 who were studying English Fundamental 1 subject at NRRU. The subjects’ majors were sciences, arts and special education. The researcher employed the communicative approach according to Antony (1963) and Nunan (2001), as a learning theory and research methodology. Furthermore, the researcher used the process of developing the E-learning package adapted from Alessi and Trollip (2001). The results of this research showed that the final consonants pre-and post-tests mean scores were statistically significant at a level of 0.05 and the subjects’ opinions toward the final consonant E-learning package were positive.