<b>การศึกษาความคิดเห็นของนักเรียนไทยต่อหนังสือส่งเสริมการอ่านภาษาอังกฤษ</b><br>A Study of Thai Students’ Opinions on Books for Extensive Reading
คำสำคัญ:
extensive reading, graded readers, learners’ factors, reading skillsบทคัดย่อ
This study aims at investigating Thai learners’
desired characteristics of books for English extensive
reading, or graded readers. The research was conducted
in nine Educational Expansion Schools in Thailand.
These schools received 100 graded readers and were
case studies for the Models of Graded Readers Use in
Primary Schools Project, launched by the Office of
the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), the
Ministry of Education. The instruments used in the
study included a questionnaire which was used with
475 subjects from the schools, and a follow-up semistructured interview used with over 100 students from
the same group. The findings revealed that although
these students had positive attitudes towards reading
and the reading activities arranged by the schools, there
was a mismatch between students’ desired materials
and the graded readers in terms of language difficulty
and L1 support, length, topics and contexts, and book
appearance. This paper discusses the learners’ desired
characteristics of graded readers, problems they
encountered with the present extensive reading
materials, and possible solutions.
