The Development of Grade 2 Students’ Reading Ability in Thai Language through the Concentrated Language Encounter Learning Activities

Abstract

The objectives of the present study are 1) to develop 2^nd grade students’ reading ability in Thai language through the concentrated language encounter learning activities so that the students made a mean score of 70% of the full marks or better and at least 70%  of the student group pass the criterion  and 2) to develop 2^nd grade students’ learning achievement in reading ability in Thai language through the concentrated language encounter learning activities so that the students made a mean score of 70% of the full marks or better and at least 70% of the student group pass the criterion.  The target group consisted of 14 grade-2 students in Ban Dong Saentaw School, under The Office of Sakolnakorn Primary Education Service Area 2, during the second semester of the 2020 academic year.  The study employed the One-Group Posttest Only Design for experiment.  Research tools included 1) 13 lesson plans based on concentrated language encounter learning activities for the development of the students’ reading ability in Thai language, and took 13 instructional periods to finish, 2) a Thai language reading ability test and 3) a learning achievement test in Thai language.  The collected data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and content analysis for percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation.

                   The findings show that: 1.The students made a mean score of 47.51 or 79.18% of the full marks in Thai language reading ability, and 11 students or 78.57% of the group passed the passing criterion which is higher than the prescribed criterion of 70%,                              2.The student group made a mean learning achievement score of 14.85 or74.25% of the full marks, and 11 students or 71.42% of the group passed the passing criterion which is higher than the prescribed criterion of 70%.