The Effects of Using Chumphon Folk Tales on Reading Comprehension and Attitude toward Local Area of Mathayom Suksa I Students at Ban Naihub School in Chumphon Province

Abstract

                 The objectives of this research were (1) to compare the reading comprehension achievements of Mathayom Suksa I students at Ban Naihub School in Chumphon province before and after learning with the use of Chumphon folk tales as learning media; and (2) to compare attitudes towards local area of Mathayom Suksa I students at Ban Naihub School in Chumphon province before and after learning with the use of Chumphon folk tales as learning media.        

                  The research sample consisted of 25 Mathayom Suksa I students studying at Ban Naihub School, Swee district, Chumphon province during the first semester of the 2016 academic year, obtained by cluster sampling.  The employed research instruments comprised learning management plans for the instruction with the use of Chumphon folk tales as learning media, a learning achievement test for pre-testing and post-testing, and an attitude assessment scale.  Statistics employed for data analysis were the mean, standard deviation.

                   The results showed that (1) the post-learning achievement of Mathayom Suksa I students at Ban Naihub School who learned with the use of Chumphon folk tales as learning media was higher than their pre-learning counterpart achievement and (2) the post-learning attitude toward local area of the students who learned with the use of Chumphon folk tales as learning media was significantly higher than their pre-learning counterpart attitude

 Keywords: Chumphon folk tale, Reading comprehension, Attitude toward local area, MathayomSuksa