The CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPLEMENTARY COURSES ON KEEPING ABREAST OF THE WORLD TO DEVELOP ENGLISH CRITICAL READING COMPETENCE USING DR-TA TEACHING STRATEGY WITH MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE FOR GRADE 10 STUDENTS

Abstract

The purposes of this research and development were to 1) develop the curriculum development of supplementary courses on keeping abreast of the world to develop English critical reading competence through using DR-TA teaching strategy with mind mapping technique for grade 10 students; 2) develop the students’ English critical reading competence who learned following the curriculum, and the students were required to have the average score not less than 70% and there had the amount of students who passed more than 70% of the criteria; 3) study the students’ satisfaction in learning followed by the curriculum. The target group was 8 students in grade 10, class 4/1 at Nonsa-ad Chumsaeng Wittaya School. This research was research and development (R&D) and consisted of 6 research instruments for collecting data; they were 1) a survey form; 2) an opinion interviewing form; 3) a curriculum of supplementary courses; 4) 9 lesson plans; 5) an evaluation test; 6) an evaluation form of the students’ satisfaction questionnaire. The findings were as follows: 1) the result of the curriculum development of supplementary courses was found that the capacity was at a high level, the average score (X) was at 4.37 and the standard deviation (S.D.) was at 0.23; 2) the result after using the curriculum was found that the students had the average score of English critical reading competence at 21.38 or 71.25%; and 3) the result of the students’ satisfaction with learning followed by the curriculum was found that the overall score was at a good level ( X = 4.05, S.D. = 0.71).