Recitation for Sustainability of Wisdom: An Applying of Memory Instructional Model

Abstract

A Thai recitation has itself magnificent pattern which gives the learners meaningful lessons and shows the neatly composing style. The Basic Education Core Curriculum B.E. 2551 (A.D. 2008) assign the student to memorise and tell the value of the recitations prescribed, and the value of valuable verses in line with their interests and use them as references. In actual the teacher only assign student to memory the recitation but lack of activities to enhance the ability of students memories. The purpose of this article is to present a Thai recitation which is applied with memory instructional model in order to enhance ability of recitation and realize the worth of recitation. The activity is to enhance students to memory recitation “Bot Pak Arawan”that is implemented in this research. The result showed that the students are able to memorise the recitation within the prescribed period of time and was presented to teacher for applying this activity to be appropriate with their students. Learning of the memorization strategies model encourage learners to apply the strategies on their study effectively beside the memory recitation is inherit the cultural heritage of the nation.