A Development of Interactive e-Book for Thai Language Learning of Students Using Malay Dialect as a Mother Tongue in Three Southern Border Provinces
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The purposes of this research were to 1) study an interactive e-book framework design to support Thai language learning. 2) Create an interactive e-book to support Thai language learning. 3) Study the efficiency of an interactive e-book to support Thai language learning. 4) Study the students learning outcome by using an interactive e-book to support Thai language learning of students using Malay dialect as a mother tongue in three southern border provinces. The purposive sample consisted of 28 third grade students in Bankatong school, Yaha district, Yala Province. The instruments employed to collect data were: 1) an interactive e-book 2 lesson plan, 3) a test to be performed as both the pretest and the posttest. The collected data were analyzed by the statistical means of mean, standard deviation and t-test. The findings were as follows: 1) There are 4 main components of design framework including; multimedia design, interactive design, learning design, and cultural theme design. 2) The way of presenting the content of the interactive e-book to sharpen students’ Thai language skills in this study is made relatively on the comprehensive learning approach which is claimed to be the natural ways of learning and acquisition. It focuses the students on listening to all the contents based on the “Auto Mode”, followed by the “Manual Mode with the narration”, and finally by the reading practice through the “Manual Mode without the narration” accordingly. 3) A development of an interactive e-book for Thai language learning was found at 75.50/76.66 percent higher than the hypothetical efficiency criterion of 75/75 percent. 4) The students learning outcome gained after learning by the interactive e-book for Thai language learning was significantly demonstrated at the statistical level of 0.01 higher than the one demonstrated before learning by the eBook.
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