Evaluation and Analysis of Lesson Plans for Teaching English Reading Skills

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Areerug Mejang

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        The objectives of this research were to 1) evaluate and analyze factors of lesson plans for teaching English reading skills in terms of the lesson objectives, learning and teaching activities, and measurement and evaluation; and 2) study opinions of the students who created those plans about the importance of components and causes of problems in the preparation of lesson plans. Sources of information for this study comprised 1) 25 lesson plans for teaching English reading skills written in the academic year 2021 by master's students majoring in English Language Teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University; and 2) 10 students who prepared the aforementioned plans. The tools used in the research consisted of a form to evaluate and analyze a lesson plan for teaching English reading skills, and a semi-structured interview. The frequency of the data was calculated, and content analysis was utilized to categorize the data and draw inductive conclusions. The results of the research were as follows: 1) the evaluation and analysis of lesson plans for teaching English reading skills regarding the lesson objectives, learning and teaching activities, and measurement and evaluation revealed 2, 9, and 2 aspects that should be improved respectively; 2) based on the interview, the students expressed their opinions about problems in formulating a lesson plan. In addition, they jointly analyzed the causes and presented their needs relating to multiple areas of knowledge in the teaching of English reading skills to develop their instructional plans.

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Mejang, A. (2022). Evaluation and Analysis of Lesson Plans for Teaching English Reading Skills. STOU Education Journal, 15(2), 208–224. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/edjour_stou/article/view/261831
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