THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONCEPT MAPPING LEARNING PACKAGE TO ENHANCE ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF PRIMARY STUDENT V

Abstract

          The objectives of this article were 1) to create and study about the effects of a concept mapping learning package to enhance English reading comprehension abilities of primary students V according to the 80/80 standard, 2) to compare the students’ English reading comprehension abilities before and after using the concept mapping learning package, and 3) to study the students’ satisfaction towards the concept mapping learning package. The participants were 15 primary students V using the simple random sampling from Banhanphet School, semester 2 academic year 2019. The research instruments used were the concept mapping learning package, lesson plans, and pretest - posttest which showed the difficulty at 0.43 and reliability at 0.77 and a questionnaire on students’ satisfaction towards the concept mapping learning package. The statistics used for this study were percentage, mean, standard deviation and t - test. The study revealed that the effects of the concept mapping learning package to enhance students’ English reading comprehension abilities was 85.18/80.35 of efficiency. The students’ abilities on reading comprehension after using the concept mapping learning package was higher than before with the significance .05 and the students’ satisfaction towards the concept mapping leaning package was at the high level.