Development of Preschool Children’s Communication Behaviors through Organizing Experiences Based on the 4-H Approach of Anuban Watphichai Songkram School, Samut Prakan Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to compare preschool children’s communication behaviors before and during the implementation of organizing experiences based on the 4-H approach, and 2) to study the trend of preschool children’s communication behaviors during the implementation of organizing experiences based on the 4-H approach.  The population in this research were 120 preschool children, boys and girls from 4 classrooms, aged 5-6 years who studied in Kindergarten 3 in the 1^st semester of the academic year 2021 at Anuban Watphichai Songkram school, Samut Prakan province.  The samples were preschool children, boys and girls, aged 5-6 years, studied in Kindergarten 3 room 4. The samples were obtained from cluster random sampling using 4 classroom units. All classrooms were similar. The researcher selected a voluntary sample of 15 people. This research was a quasi-experimental research design with one-group time-series design. The experiment took 7 weeks, 3 days a week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with 45 minutes each. The research instruments were lesson plans of organizing experiences based on the 4-H approach and observation form of preschool children’s communication behaviors with the reliability of .96. The statistics used to analyze the data were mean, standard deviation and one-way repeated-measures ANOVA.

The research finding revealed that the preschool children’s communication behaviors during the implementation of organizing experiences based on the 4-H approach were higher than those before the experiment at the statistical significance level of .05 and the trend of the preschool children’s communication behaviors during the implementation of organizing experiences based on the 4-H approach were higher.