A Development of Chinese Reading Comprehension Curriculum Using Multimedia for Grade 10 Students

Abstract

          The objectives of this research were 1) to create and verify the quality of a Curriculum Development of Chinese Reading Comprehension Curriculum Using Multimedia for Grade 10 Students, and 2) to study the effects of the Chinese Reading Comprehension Curriculum Using Multimedia. Cluster sampling methodology was used to sample the school under private school. The result of the sampling was a class of 4/1 Secondary 23 students of Arunothai School (Muang District, Lampang Province). This is the pre-experimental research. The design is the one-group Pretest-Posttest design. The instruments used for data collection were the curriculum, the curriculum instructions, tests for Chinese Comprehension ability. The data were analyzed by percentage, average, standard deviation and t-test dependent.
          The research results found that:
          1. The Development of Chinese Reading Comprehension Curriculum Using Multimedia for Grade 5 Students consists of 6 components which are 1) background 2) purpose 3) contents 4) learning activities 5) learning materials 6) assessment and evaluation. The contents comprised 4 units of learning with a total of 16 hours, namely: unit 1 – short stories Chinese reading comprehension 4 hours; unit 2 – parables for Chinese reading comprehension 4 hours; unit 3 – Article for Chinese reading comprehension 4 hours; and unit 4 – Multimedia for Chinese reading comprehension 4 hours. The average of the curriculum appropriateness was at the high level and the overall of the curriculum instructions was appropriated at highest level.
          2. The results of utilizing the Chinese Reading Comprehension Curriculum Using Multimedia was found that the posttest score was higher than the pretest at the significant level of .05.