A Development of a Multimedia e-Book: English Sentence Writing for the Students at Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin
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The purpose of this study was to develop a Multimedia e-book: English Sentence Writing for the Students at Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin through an experimental research by using the one-group pretest-posttest design. The purposive sampled group consisted of 40 students in Business English major, who studied with the researcher. The research instruments included a Multimedia e-book: English Sentence Writing for the Students at Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin and a questionnaire on students’ satisfaction with the developed Multimedia e-Book. The results from the study were as follows: (1) the value of the effectiveness of the developed Multimedia e-Book was 77.94 /79.34, which corresponded to the set criteria of the value of the effectiveness of 75/75, (2) the posttest score was significantly higher than the pretest score at the significant level of .05, and (3) the sampled group expressed their high level of satisfaction with the developed Multimedia e-Book.
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