The Creation of Electronic Knowledge Book on the Royal Barge Song in Thai Literature for Foreigners

การสร้างหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์เสริมความรู้วรรณคดีไทยเรื่องกาพย์เห่เรือ สำหรับชาวต่างชาติ

Abstract

This article is intended to create an electronic book about Royal Barge Song in Thai Literature for Foreigners. The target group of this research is 5 Foreigner Master’s degree student, who studies Major Thai, Faculty of Humanities, Srinakharinwirot University. The design of experiments is one shot experimental case study. The researchers conducted this study by creating 8 chapters of electronic book: Chapter One: Introduction to Royal Barge Song; Chapter Two: Style of poetry; Chapter Three: “word selection” to create literary art; Chapter Four: “Figure of speech” in literature; Chapter Five: The Royal Barge Procession; Chapter Six: The beauty of royal girl in Royal barge song; Chapter Seven: King and Faith about Royal barge song; Chapter eight: National Museum of Royal Barge Songs. Each chapter contains Reading, Vocabulary, supplementary Reading and Post-tests. After an electronic book approved by specialists and advisors, the researcher brought to test the targeted group. The data were analyzed from the post-tests of all 8 lessons to determine the efficiency of E1 and analyzing the data from the scores of the achievement test after learning to determine the efficiency of E2. The criteria of E1/E2 is 75/75. The findings found that the electronic Knowledge Book on the Royal Barge Song in Thai Literature for Foreigners has a performance value of 87.75/79.6. This value has passed the criteria. This shows that the usage of this electronic book can increase knowledge in Thai literature in order to improve their reading skills to foreigners, who study Thai as a foreign language. Therefore, this electronic book can be used as a learning material of Thai literature for foreigner.