CREATING A TEXTBOOK OF BASIC CHINESE BASED ON AREA CONTEXT ENHANCING CHINESE COMMUNICATION COMPETENCIES IN SCHOOLS AT THE BASIC EDUCATION LEVEL,CHIANGRAI PROVINCE

Abstract

            The purposes of creating a Textbook of Basic Chinese Based on Area Context Enhancing Chinese communication competencies in Schools at the Basic Education Level, Chiang Rai Province are 1) to create and to evaluate the textbook of basic Chinese based on the area context utilized to enhance Primary students’ communication competencies in Chiang Rai 2) to study the output of utilizing the textbook to enhance the students’ communication competencies. The population of the study is ten people including supervisors, professional Chinese language teachers and Chinese language teachers, 28 students in Primary 1, 30 students in Primary 2, and 30 students in Primary 3. All the students are selected by purposive sampling. The tools used in the study includes the questionnaire, the interview form, the discussion records, the basic Chinese textbook based on the area context to enhance the communication competencies of the Primary students in Chiang Rai, and the pre-test & post-test exams. Finding average, standard deviation, and frequency is used to analyze the output. The findings show. 1) The results of creating and evaluating the textbook of basic Chinese based on area context enhancing Chinese communication competencies in schools at the basic education Level, Chiang Rai province with an efficiency at 70/70 is found; The effectiveness in Primary 1 students is at 75.86/78.21. The effectiveness in Primary 2 students is at76.53/79.67. The effectiveness in Primary 3 students is 77.66/78.98. They are the reflection of the effectiveness and practicality of utilizing the basis Chinese textbook based on the area context for the students in 3 Primary levels. 2) Utilizing the Chinese textbook to enhance students’ communication competencies results in the following data: Students in Primary 1 level: The average pre-test score of 5.29  and the S.D. of 0.53, The average post-test score of 7.82 and the S.D. of 0.15. When analyzing the averages by T-test, it is at 25.3. Students in Primary 2 level: The average pre-test score of 5.10 and the S.D. of 0.71, The average post-test score of 7.97 and the S.D. of 0.61. When analyzing the averages by T-test, it is at 28.7. Students in Primary 3 level: The average pre-test score of 5.28 and the S.D. of 0.53, The average post-test score of 7.90 and the S.D. of 0.56. When analyzing the averages by T-test, it is at 26.2. Utilizing the textbook of basic Chinese based on the area context with Primary students in Chiang Rai enables the students to have the higher Chinese communication competencies and have the significantly higher post-test score at 0.05.