Developing Communication Writing skills by using Skill Practices along with Concentrated Language Encounter for Grade 1 Students

Abstract

This research has four objectives which aim to 1) develop the practices of communication writing skill of Thai-language department for grade 1 teaching to meet the effective criteria of 80/80, 2) improve grade 1 student’s communication writing skills to make at least 80 percent of students to reach 80 percent of score, 3) compare grade 1 student’s communication writing skill between pre- practices using and post-practices using and 4) study the satisfaction of grade 1 students after they have learned the practices which have been used along with the concentrated language encounter. The sample group is 32 people of grade 1 and 2 students, gotten by Cluster Random Sampling, of Tasabanwatphuphaphimuk school, the municipal school which belongs to Phatthalung Municipality, in the second semester of the academic year 2016. The researching elements used have included, 1) 6 copies of the practices of communication writing skill, belonging to Thai-language department, for grade 1 teaching where the mean value is 4.56 (= 4.56), 2) 6 pages of the concentrated language encounter which is about communication writing, belonging to Thai-language department, for grade 1 teaching with the learning period for 22 hours, the mean value is 4.59          (= 4.59), 3) the writing test of communication writing skill of Thai-language department for grade 1 teaching where reliability is 0.93, 4) the satisfaction assessment of grade 1 student, the rating scale of 5 levels, for 15 lists, corresponding to the reliability which is about 0.79. Accordingly, the statistics used for this research are Mean Value, Percentage, Standard Deviation (S.D) and t-test (dependent).

The results of research

1. The result from developing the practices of communication writing skill of Thai-language department for grade 1 teaching, according to the sample group, shows the degree of the effective about 86.57/85.06 which is higher than the expected result, 80/80.

2. The result from developing the practices of communication writing skill for grade 1 students shows the number of students who passed the criteria of 80 percent for 27 people or 84.38 percent which is higher than the expected result, 80.

3. The comparison of grade 1 student’s communication writing skill for post-learning by using the concentrated language encounter is higher than the result of pre-learning, it is significant at  .05 in terms of statistics.

4. The result from the satisfaction of grade 1 students after learning by using skill practices along with the concentrated language encounter is at a high level by the overall ( =4.43, S.D.=0.69).