The Effects of Active Learning to Promote Reading Literacy among Mutthayomsuksa 2 Students

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Supannee Khawngam
Dhanita Doungwilai

Abstract

Reading illiteracy is considered the vital problem affected the educational development among Thai students. Active learning is one alternative approaches to promote reading literacy. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the effects of active learning to promote reading literacy of Mutthayomsuksa 2 students. The sample was divided into 2 groups; one was the experimental group which comprised of 34 students and one was 33 students of the control group. The implementation used in the study was 6 lesson plans of active learning to promote students’ reading literacy. The instrument used to collect the data was the reading literacy test. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation. t-test was used to test the hypothesis of the study. The results of the present study revealed that the participants who learnt through active learning to promote reading literacy gained higher scores of the reading literacy posttest than the pretest significantly at the 0.05 level of statistics. Moreover, the participants who learnt by using active learning to promote reading literacy had higher scores of the reading literacy test than the scores of the participants in the control group who learnt through the traditional teaching significantly at the 0.05 level of statistics.

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