Development of Thai Reading Comprehension Activity Package Using SQ4R Reading Method Together with Think Pair Share for Mathayomsuksa I Students

Abstract

            The purposes of this research were to develop an affective activity package of Thai language reading comprehension using SQ4R reading method together with Think Pair Share to compare  pretest and posttest results of mathayomsuksa I students who learned with this  package and to study their attitude towards the activity package. The samples used in the research were   35 Matthayomsuksa 1/1 students in the second semester of academic year 2017 at Pattaya City 2 school (Charoen-Rat-Uthit), Banglamung District, Chonburi Province gaining from cluster random sampling. The research instrument consisted of Thai reading comprehension activity package using SQ4R reading method together with Think Pair Share, a reading comprehension achievement test and an attitude test towards the package for Matthayomsuksa 1 students. The research findings indicated that the activity package had efficiency index of 83.57/85.26, which was higher than the standard level. The posttest scores of reading comprehension achievement of the students were statistically significantly higher than those of the pretest at a 0.1 levels. The students’ attitude toward the Thai reading comprehension activity package using SQ4R reading method together with Think Pair Share  was at a high level.