Development of a Curriculum to Enhance Chinese Writing Competency on My Life for Grade 4 International School Students

Abstract

          The objectives of this research were 1) to develop curriculum to enhance Chinese writing competency on my life and 2) to study the results of implementation. The targets were 6 International School students at Grade 4 of Cranberry International School, Lampang province, studying in second semester academic year 2020-2021. The tools were the curriculum to enhance Chinese writing competency on my life, learning units, learning management plans, subjective tests for 5 units and summative test before and after implementation. The tests require to write the story, full scores 20 points. Percentage, mean and standard deviation were used for data analysis. The results found that: there was the curriculum to enhance Chinese writing competency on my life which composed of 5 learning units. They were 1. My body 2. My family 3. My school 4. My favorite food and 5. My one day. The developed curriculum had a suitable average at a high level ( = 4.50, S.D. = 0.64). The learning units and the leson plans had a suitable average, at a high level (= 4.21, S.D. = 0.80). The results of the implementation were that the students posttest scores were higher than pretest scores (= 16.50, S.D. = 1.38), (= 12.17, S.D. = 2.14) The Chinese writing competency on my life was at a high level, 65.50%.