The Use of Articles as Media to Develop Interpretive Reading and Conclusion Writing of Mathayom Suksa 6 Students at Satri Siriket School in Si Sa Ket Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were (1) to compare interpretive reading achievement scores of Mathayom Suksa V students at Satri Siriket School in Si Sa Ket province before and after learning with the use of articles as learning media; and (2) to compare conclusion writing achievement scores of the students before and after learning with the use of articles as learning media.

            The research sample consisted of 42 Mathayom Suksa V students at Satri Siriket School in Si Sa Ket province, obtained by cluster sampling.  The employed research instruments were 15 learning management plans with the use of articles as learning media to develop interpretive reading and conclusion writing, and a learning achievement test on interpretive reading and conclusion writing for pre-testing and post-testing.  Statistics for data analysis were the mean, standard deviation,

            Research findings showed that (1) the post-learning interpretive reading scores of Mathayom Suksa V students at Satri Siriket School, who learned with the use of articles as learning media, were significantly higher than their pre-learning counterpart scores and (2) the post-learning conclusion writing scores of the students who learned with the use of articles as learning media were significantly higher than their pre-learning counterpart scores.

Keywords: Article, Learning media, Interpretive reading, Conclusion writing