THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS IN THAI LANGUAGE COURSE USING THE 5W1H INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUE COMBINED WITH EXERCISES FOR SECOND-YEAR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) To compare the reading comprehension skills of Second-Year students before and after learning through the 5W1H technique combined with practice exercises. 2) To compare the reading comprehension skills between the group that learned through the 5W1H technique combined with practice exercises and the group that received traditional instruction among Second-Year. students and 3) To study the satisfaction of Second-Year students toward the learning management of reading comprehension through the 5W1H technique combined with practice exercises. This study employed a quasi-experimental research design.
The sample, obtained through cluster random sampling, consisted of Second-Year students at Pornsirikul School, the experimental group consisted of 27 students, and the control group consisted of 27 students. The research instruments included lesson plans, a reading comprehension skills test, practice exercises, and a satisfaction questionnaire. The statistics used for data analysis were mean, standard deviation, paired-samples t-test, and independent-samples t-test. The findings were as follows: 1) The Students who were taught using the 5W1H technique in combined with practice exercises demonstrated significantly higher reading comprehension skills in identifying main ideas after the intervention than before the intervention, at the .01 level of statistical significance. 2) The Students who received instruction through the 5W1H technique combined with practice exercises achieved significantly higher main idea reading comprehension skills than those who received conventional instruction, at the .01 level of statistical significance. and 3) The overall satisfaction of Second-Year students with the instructional approach using the 5W1H technique combined with exercises was at the highest level.