Promoting Social Sciences Research Article Comprehension and Writing Skills Through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) for Graduate Diploma in Teaching Profession Students

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Angcharin Thongpan
Duangtip Wongnak
Phornnuanphajong Luangwangpho
Tantikorn Pookerdpim
Jutamart Pookerdpim

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to investigate the Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction on graduate diploma in teaching profession students’ social sciences research articles comprehension, and to investigate the Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction on graduate diploma in teaching profession Students’ writing skills. The sample consisted of 30 of graduate diploma in teaching profession students who were drawn from cluster random sampling for one classroom as a sampling unit. The experiment was carried out for 6 weeks, 6 hours each, 36 hours in total. The research instruments employed in this research were 1) 6 lesson plans using Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI), 2) Reading comprehension test, and 3) Writing skills test. The data was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and the paired samples t-test.


The results of the study were: 1) the students acquired better social sciences research articles comprehension after the implementation of the Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction, at a statistically significant 0.05. 2) the students gained writing skills after the implementation of the Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction, at a statistically significant 0.05. Moreover,
the results of the writing skills in each aspect after the treatment of the Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction was converted that, mechanics and grammar received the highest score, topic sentences, and supporting detail sentences respectively. Conversely, students gained the lowest scores as elaborating detail sentences.

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Angcharin Thongpan, -

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Human Development, Roi Et Rajabhat University, Thailand

Duangtip Wongnak

Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Human Development, Roi Et Rajabhat University, Thailand

Phornnuanphajong Luangwangpho

Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Human Development, Roi Et Rajabhat University, Thailand

Tantikorn Pookerdpim

Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Human Development, Roi Et Rajabhat University, Thailand

Jutamart Pookerdpim

Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Human Development, Roi Et Rajabhat University, Thailand

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