A Development of Reading Aloud Skills on Thai Words with the Standard Final Consonant Rules by Using Games for Prathomsuksa 1 Students Under Mae Chan Saisawan Educational Development Network, Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to construct and evaluate the efficiency of the learning management plans by using games for teaching final consonant aloud skills on Thai words with standard ending rules for Prathomsuksa 1 students under the Mae Chan Saisawan Educational Development Network based on the 80/80 criteria, to compare the students’ pre- and post-learning achievements on reading aloud the Thai words, and to examine the students’ satisfaction with the learning management on reading aloud the Thai words the simple random sampling method was used to result 13 Prathomsuksa 1 students from Thammajarikoupatham School 1 in the second semester of the 2018 academic year. The research instruments consisted of the learning management plans by using games involving 8 learning units and 24 lesson plans covering 1 hour for each lesson plan, the achievement tests (pre- & posttest on reading aloud 40 Thai words with the standard final consonant rules), 10-item students’ satisfaction questionnaire with the use of games for the learning management. The statistics for data analysis were mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The results indicated that the efficiency of the learning management was at 84.58/85.88, which were higher than those of the pre-determined criteria. Moreover, the posttest achievement scores were higher than those of the pre-test at the statistical significance level of .01. Moreover, the students showed their satisfaction with the learning management at a high level in all items with the mean scores of 2.80. The findings confirmed the hypothesis of the study.