The Development Learning Package with Task Based Learning to Encourage Japanese Learning Achievement for Secondary 4

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to develop learning package with task based learning to encourage Japanese learning achievement, to compare encourage Japanese learning achievement before and after treatment and to study secondary 4 students’ opinions for learning package with task based learning. The sample of this research consisted of 25 secondary 4 students studying at Kanchananukroh School. The duration of implementation covered 18 hours; taking pretest and posttest over class time for 2 hours. The tools of this research were 7 lesson plans using task based learning activity, the Japanese language proficiency test with 30 items, the difficulty at 0.55 and the discrimination at 0.56, the students’ opinion questionnaire for learning package with task based learning with 3 level rating scale. The data were analyzed by percentage, average, standard deviation, the efficiency index E1/E2 = 75/75 and dependent T-test with the level of statistical significance of the test at 0.05. The results of this research were as follow:

1. Learning package with task-based learning for secondary 4 including 7 learning packages and task-based learning including 1) Pre-task 2) Authentic practice 3) Task cycle 4) Introduce the pedagogical Task reached the efficiency index E1/E2 = 75.28/75.73


2. Japanese learning achievement posttest scores were higher than pretest scores significantly.


3. The opinions of secondary 4 students towards using Learning package with task-based learning were overall at the high level.