Development of Activities for Teaching English Grammar by a Collaborative Learning Method for First-Year Students at Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, Chiang Rai

Abstract

This research consisted of the follows objectives: 1) To create activities for teaching English grammar by a collaborative learning method for first-year students, where learners learn together and build their own knowledge. The effective criterion is 75/75. 2) To compare the learners’ ability on how to use English grammar before and after studying with activities to teach English grammar by a collaborative learning method. It is a pre-experimental research design. The data collection from two lesson plans of activities for teaching English grammar and a test to measure the ability to use English grammar for the first-year students of Chiang Rai Rajabhat University. In this research basic states and t-test are used to analyze the data in comparing the score before and after test.

The result of this research revealed that the use of activities for teaching English grammar by the cooperative learning method gained as efficient as 85.4/81.41 which is considered to be in very good condition when comparing the students’ ability to use English grammar before and after. It was found that after the students were taught by using activities to teach English grammar by the cooperative learning method, they had higher test scores than before receiving the cooperative learning method. The significance level was at 0.01. Therefore, teachers should improve teaching styles and develop activities related to teaching English grammar by using a collaborative learning approach to encourage learners to participate in the activities and be able to work with others to improve learning efficiency.