Development of English Reading and Writing Skills Based on a Balanced Literacy Approach for the 7th Grade Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop English learning kits based on a balanced literacy approach to develop reading and writing skills for the 7^th grade students to have the efficiency according to the standard criterion of 80/80 and 2) to compare learning achievement before and after learning by using the English learning kits based on a balanced literacy approach. The samples used in the research were 30 students studying in the 7^th grade at Khumkam Wittayakarn School under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Ubon ratchatani Amnat Charoen in the second semester in the academic year of 2022. They were randomized by cluster sampling. The research instruments were English learning kits, a learning achievement test with 30 items, IOC between .60–1.00, and a test used to measure English writing skills. The statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test.

            The research findings were as follows.

1.  The efficiency of the English learning kits based on a balanced literacy approach to develop reading and writing skills for the 7th grade students was 83.85/81.33 which met the standard criterion of 80/80.
2.  The learning achievement of the English reading and writing skills for the 7^th grade students by using the English learning kits based on a balanced literacy approach to develop reading and writing skills for the 7th grade students after learning was higher than that before learning with the statistical significance at the level of .01.