The Development of Reading and Writing Ability to Analytically Criticize Literature of Thai Language Students by Using the Learning Management of REAP Strategy

Abstract

The article has the objectives  1)  to compare analytical reading and writing abilities to criticize literature of Thai language students before and after managing  the REAP learning strategy,  2)  to assess the development of analytical reading and writing abilities to criticize literature of Thai language students after studying with REAP learning strategy and  3)  to study student’s satisfaction with the Reap strategy learning management after studying.  The sample group consisted of 54 students of the 3rd year of the Thai language program, enrolling in the course of Literature and Creative Criticism in the academic year 2023, obtained through the purposive selection method.  The tools were  1)  analytical reading and writing lesson plans with the learning management of the REAP strategy,  2) an analytical reading and writing ability test of literary criticism and  3)  a questionnaire on students’ satisfaction with teaching analytical reading and writhing to criticize literature by  REAP learning strategy.  The basic statistics used in this research included percentage, mean, standard deviation and relative development scores.  The statistics used to analyze the data on the difference in achievement scores before and after the study of the sample group were the Dependent t-test formula.

           The results of the research found that

1. The results of comparing analytical reading and writing abilities to criticize literature of Thai language students before and after learning by the REAP strategy found that the test scores after the learning were significantly higher than before the study at the .05 level.
2. The assessment results of developing the ability on analytical reading and writing to criticize literature of Thai language students after studying with the REAP learning strategy by using a formula to calculate the relative development scores found that after learning with the REAP strategy the students developed the analytical reading and writing ability to criticize literature at the high level.
3. The results of the study of student’s satisfaction with the REAP strategy learning management after studying overall found that the students’ satisfaction was at the highest level ( =4.84).