Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to develop listening and speaking skills of early childhood children through songs, based on the standardized criteria of 80/80 and to compare the childrens achievement before and after using the songs.
The sample consisted of 30 children attending the second year early childhood level at Ban Nayang School, Mukdahan Primary Education Service Area Office, the kits of classroom songs, randomly assigned by simple random sampling. The research tools were the music on mathematics, and the achievement test constructed by the researcher. The test difficulty indices ranged from .44 to .67, the discrimination indices ranged from .40 to .80, and the reliability value was .92. The collected data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test.
The research finding were as follows :
1.The song kits were efficient since the criteria were found at 83.36/85.20 which exceeded the criteria of 80/80.
2.The childrens achievement after using the songs was significantly higher than that before using them at the .01 level.