Development of English Reading Skills through Folk Tales for the Fifth Grade Students

Abstract

The objectives of the research were 1) to develop activity packages for developing English reading skills through folk tales for the fifth grade students and 2) to compare learning achievement of the students before and after learning by using the activity packages. The samples used in the research were 40 students studying in the fifth grade at

Ban Jukarn School under Ubon Ratchathani Primary Education Office Region 3 in the first semester of the academic year of 2022. They were randomized by cluster sampling. The research instruments were activity packages for developing English reading skills through folk tales and a test for measuring learning achievement. The statistics used were mean, standard deviation, and t-test.

            The research findings were as follows.

1. The activity packages for developing English reading skills through folk tales for the fifth grade students created by the researchers consisted of 6 stories: 1) the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, 2) the farmer and the cobra, 3) the bullock and the heifer, 4) the Pleiades, 5) the grandfather lying his grandson, and 6) the gecko and the green snake They had the mean score of 4.69 at the highest level and the efficiency of the process (E₁) and the efficiency of the result (E₂) at 81.85/81.36.
2. The students learning by using the activity packages for developing English reading skills through folk tales for the fifth grade students had the learning achievement after learning higher than that before learning with the statistical significance at the level of .01.