Development of an English Multicultural Curriculum to Promote Language Skills andAttitudes Among Maejo University Students, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Abstract

              The purposes of this study were to 1) develop a multicultural English curriculum based on multicultural education, 2) improve English language skills and 3) study student’s attitudes toward multicultural society. The target group of the study was 25 the third year English Major students, enrolling in English for Industry and Service Course (LE 217) in the first semester of

               the academic year 2016 at Faculty of Liberal Arts, Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand . The research instruments were 1) curriculum development instruments, including proto-type syllabus, and 10 lesson plans, 2) lesson development instruments comprising the assessments of English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and 3) data collecting instruments , attitude assessment towards multicultural society. The data obtained were analyzed for mean, standard deviation and percentage. The findings of the study were as follows: 1) The development of English Multicultural Curriculum based multicultural education was good (x̄=4.43 S.D = 0.07), 2) The student’s language skills with the application of communicative language teaching approach revealed that: speaking-listening was good, reading was good and writing was pretty good (70.25, 73.8 and 65.6 % respectively), and 3) the student’s attitudes toward multicultural society was very good (x̄=4.61 S.D = 0.12).