The Development of English Reading Comprehension Ability Using Collaborative Strategic Reading of Prathomsuksa 6 Students

Abstract

           The purposes of this research were to study and compare students' english reading comprehension ability before and after using collaborative strategic reading of Prathomsuksa   6   students  and   to   study   the students’ attitude  towards   teaching   English  reading comprehension and using collaborative strategic reading. The sample consisted of 20 Prathomsuksa 6 students at Banngiwpanghonongtom School, Warichaphum District under the Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, in the first semester of the academic year 2019, selected through cluster random sampling. The design of this research was a one group  pretest-posttest design. The research instruments included  12 lesson plans, an English reading comprehension  ability test and an attitude questionnaire. The experiment lasted twelve weeks, 2 hours a week with the total of 24 hours.  The mean, percentage, standard deviation, one sample t-test and t-test for dependent samples were used for data analysis. The findings of this research were as follows:1)The students’ pretest  and  posttest  mean scores of English reading comprehension ability  were  18.90 or 47.25 percent and 30.30 or 75.75  percent respectively. The posttest mean score was higher than 70 percent. The students’ english  reading comprehension ability was  found to be significantly higher than that of the pretest.
2)The students’ attitude towards teaching  english  reading  comprehension  using collaborative strategic reading was at a good level.