THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTIMODAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES BASED INSTRUCTION TO ENHANCE THAI LANGUAGE READING COMPREHENSION ABILITIES OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

Abstract

This Research and Development research had two objectives as follows 1) to develop multimodal learning activities-based instruction to enhance the reading comprehension abilities and 2) to study the results of reading comprehension abilities of secondary school students in large international schools after implementing multimodal learning activities-based instruction. This research method used Research and Development (R & D), which studied the effectiveness of the developed learning activities conducted using quasi-experimental research. This research contains a sampling group of 7-grade Thai students at a large secondary international school in Bangkok selected using the purposive sampling method. The research instruments used in this research were the achievement test to evaluate reading comprehension abilities, 3 sets of reading reflection worksheets, and lesson plans of Thai literature using multimodal learning activities-based instruction. The data were analyzed using arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and t-test. Results showed that the development of multimodal learning activities-based instruction had 2 main steps which are 1) the preparation of the instructional materials comprising of an animated video clip, picture book/comic book, and a reading passage in which the content had to all be interrelated, and 2) multimodal learning activities-based instruction pedagogical steps consisting of watching and listening to animated video clips to make summaries, critical reading using picture books/comic books, and evaluation of reading passages. After implementing the multimodal learning activities-based instruction developed by the author, there was a significant difference in results between the pre-test and post-test at the level of .05 among students who studied reading comprehension.