THE DEVELOPMENT OF THAI DANCE MOVEMENT SKILLS FOR THE SONG TITLED (YING THAI JAI NGAM) OF GRADE 6 STUDENTS AT SURAOBANGCHAN SCHOOL BASED ON THE REMEDIAL TEACHING METHODS

Abstract

The objective of this research were to study why Grade 6 students could not perform the Thai dance moves for the song titled Ying Thai Jai Ngam and to investigate the results of the development of the Thai dance movement skills of the learners based on the remedial teaching methods. The target group for this research were Grade 6 students at Suraobangchan School who could not perform the Thai dance moves for the song titled Ying Thai Jai Ngam. The research instruments were: 1. Interview 2. Behavior Observation form. The statistics used for Data analysis were frequency and percentage.

The results of this research revealed the followings:

1. The reasons why the students could not perform the Thai dance moves for the song titled Ying Thai Jai Ngam were: The learner had not acquired the foundation skills to perform the dance moves and they thought practice time has an effect on their dance performance.

2. Following up the results of the development of Thai dance movement skills of the learners based on the remedial teaching methods, it was found out that all of the students who hadn’t been able to perform the Thai dance moves for the song titled Ying Thai Jai Ngam had higher academic achievement scores after having learned the dance moves using the remedial teaching methods. 5 students (83.33%) earned good scores and 1 student (16.67 %) received a fair score.