A comparison of English reading comprehension abilities of mathayom suksa two students between groups taught by self-questioning and notetaking strategies
Abstract:
To study English reading comprehension abilities of mathayom suksa two students taught by self-questioning and notetaking strategies and to compare English reading comprehension abilities of mathayom suksa two students between groups taught by self-questioning and notetaking strategies. The subjects of this research were mathayom suksa two students purposively selected from Suankularb School, Bangkok Metropolis, in the academic year of 2001. The samples were randomly assigned one class of 41 students as the first experimental group taught by self-questioning strategy, and the other class of 48 students as the second experimental group taught by notetaking strategy. The researcher taught each group by herself for 9 weeks. The research instruments were 1) the instrument for experiment consisted of 9 lesson plans per group, and 2) the instrument for data collection consisted of an English reading comprehension test which was constructed by researcher and approved the content validity and the language accuracy by three specialists. The reliability of the test was .89. This test was administered to the students after teaching. The collected data were analyzed by means of arithmetic mean, percentage of arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The results of this study were as follows 1. Mathayom suksa two students taught by self-questioning strategy had English reading comprehension ability passing the low level evaluative criterion set by the Ministry of Education and the students taught by notetaking strategy had English reading comprehension ability below the low level evaluative criterion. 2. Mathayom suksa two students taught by self-questioning strategy had English reading comprehension ability higher than that of the students taught by notetaking strategy at .05 level of significance