English Narrative Writing Abilities Development of Grade 11 Students by Using Learning Together Technique

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to: 1) investigate the efficiency of the lesson plan of English narrative writing using learning together technique, based on cooperative learning approach with the criterion of 80/80, 2) compare students’ pre-test and post-test scores after learning English narrative writing, and 3) explore students’ satisfaction after learning using English narrative writing. The participants composed of 30 students, who were studying in Grade 11 at a school under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Sakon Nakhon, in academic year 2/2023. They were recruited using cluster random sampling. The instruments comprised six lesson plans, which was a parallel pre-test and post-test, and a questionnaire on students’ satisfactions towards learning English narrative writing with learning together technique. Statistics used in data analysis included mean (M), standard deviation (SD), and t-test dependent samples. The results revealed that: 1) the scores of the lesson plans efficiency were 84.67/80.85, which achieved the set criteria, 2) students’ English narrative writing post-test scores were higher than of the pre-test lessons with statistical significance at .01, and 3) students' satisfactions towards the learning of English narrative writing using the learning together technique, in overall, was at high level (M = 4.15, SD = 0.72).