Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to develop English reading comprehension ability of prathom suksa four students by using the Cornell note taking method, to compare the differences between pre-test and post-test of The English reading comprehension ability, learning behavior and stress and worrys score resulting from the usage of the Cornell note taking method, and to compare The English reading comprehension ability, learning behavior as evaluated by teacher, friend and oneself among test measuring while studying. The participants were fourth grade students from Chulalongkorn University Demonstration Elementary School in academic year 2006. (N=39) Researcher collected data by (1) English reading comprehension using the Cornell note taking method test (2) Learning behavior observation evaluated by the teacher, friend and oneself and (3) Stress and worry test. All data were analysed by descriptive statistics, means comparisons using t-test and repeated measured analysis of variance and cross-tabulation. The results were: (1) The English reading comprehension ability pre-test mean was less than post-test mean (2) The stress and worry pre-test mean and post-test mean were about the same level the two findings were inconsistent with the research hypotheses. (3) Learning behavior observation means as evaluated by teacher differed significantly at 0.05 level which agree with the research hypotheses. And (4) learning behavior observation means as evaluated by friend and oneself were differed significantly at 0.05 level.