The Development of textbooks for teaching reading and writing at the elementary education level from the Reign of King Rama V to the Present

Abstract

The research aims to analyze teaching methods from Thai exercise books and textbooks of Thai reading and writing at the elementary education level from the Reign of King Rama V to the Present. The research found that the exercise books and textbooks used in each period had different aims. These differences can be used for specifying the periods of the development of the teaching methods of Thai reading and writing into two periods. The first period aimed at the outcome of enabling learners to read and write Later, with the change in the social context, the curricula were also changed, using exercise books and textbooks that aimed at yielding efficient outcomes in using language as a communicative instrument.