Development of English Reading Comprehension Kits Using Task-Based Learning Activities for the Fifth Grade Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop English reading comprehension kits using task-based learning activities to have the efficiency according to the criterion of 75/75 and 2) to compare the reading comprehension learning achievement of the students before and after learning by using the English reading comprehension kits using task-based learning activities for the fifth grade students. The samples were 40 students studying in the fifth grade at Nangam (Polkae Wuppatham) School and Ban Nonkholuku School under Ubon Ratchathani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 in the second semester in the academic year of 2022. They were randomized by cluster sampling. The research instruments were 6 sets of the English reading comprehension kits using task-based learning activities for the fifth grade students and a learning achievement test for reading comprehension with 30 items, the item difficulty ranged between .52-.78, and the item discrimination ranged between .26-.41 that the researchers created. The statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test.  

            The research findings were as follows.

1.  The efficiency of the English reading comprehension kits using task-based learning activities for the fifth grade students was 77.15/76.5.
2. The mean score of the reading comprehension achievement of the students taught by the English reading comprehension kits using task-based learning activities for the fifth grade students after learning was higher than that before learning with the statistical significance at the level of .05.