THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH READING SKILLS USING AESOP FABLES TO THE STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MAHAMAKUT BUDDHIST UNIVERSITY LANNA CAMPUS

Abstract

This research aims to 1) To study the development of English reading skills using Aesop Fables to the students of the faculty of Humanities, Department of English, Mahamakut Buddhist University, Lanna Campus 2) to compare English reading skills using the Aesop fables to the students of the faculty of Humanities, Department of English, Mahamakut Buddhist University, Lanna Campus 3) to suggest English reading skills using Aesop fables to the students of the faculty of Humanities, Department of English, Mahamakut Buddhist University, Lanna Campus. The sampling group of this research was 88 students of the first, second and the third year in the academic year of 1^st semester, 2018. The questionnaire as the tools was used to collect the data. The Frequency, the percentage, the mean, the standard deviation and the F-test were used to analyze the data.

The research was found that:

1) Developing the English reading skills using Aesop Fables to the students, the results were at a high level     ( = 3.83, S.D. = 0.216). 2) The students with different gender, different reading skills occurred different result, but students with different GPA and English reading skills were not different in which the statistical significance level was 0.05.3) Students suggested that the improvement of English reading skills should have : (1) Learn to read more   (2) Translate a sentence by sentence (3) Open the dictionary frequently to add vocabulary by yourself (4) To study grammar and sentences as well.