A Development of Thai Reading and Writing Skills Practice Set for Solving the Problems of the Illiteracy for Prathomsuksa 5 Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to examine basic Thai words those are problematic for literacy of Prathomsuksa 5 students in Buntharik District, Ubon Ratchathani Province, 2) to develop Thai reading and writing skills practice sets for Prathomsuksa 5 student to be effective in criteria 80/80, and 3) to study the results of using Thai language reading and writing skills practice set for Prathomsuksa 5 student. The target group is was 33 illiterate students in Prathomsuksa 5 in Buntharik District, Ubon Ratchathani Province. The instruments tused in this research were 1) tdocument recording form, 2) teacher interview form, 3) Thai reading and writing skills practice sets for Pratomsuksa 5 student, 4) Assessment form for Thai reading and writing skills practice sets and 5) Evaluation form for using Thai reading and writing skills practice set by teachers who teach in Prathomsuksa 5. The statistics used in data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation and Paired Sample Hotelling’s T2 test. The research found that 1) There are 150 basic Thai words those are the most problematic for literacy of Prathomsuksa 5 students. 2) The Thai reading and writing skills practice set for solving the illiteracy problem of Prathomsuksa 5 students consisted of 15 exercises, with appropriateness were 4.27 - 4.58, in overall was appropriate at the highest level (× ̅=4.54, S.D. = 0.61) and has efficiency in of 80.72 / 80.33 3) The achievement scores of students, post-reading skills (× ̅=12.76, S.D. = 1.32) and post-writing skills (× ̅=14.27, S.D. = 1.13), were statistically higher than before using the practice set at the significance level of .01, and the results of the appropriateness evaluation of Thai reading and writing skills practice sets by the teachers who teach in Prathomsuksa 5, overall at the highest level (× ̅=4.63, S.D. = 0.48)