USING SQ4R TECHNIQUE TO DEVELOP ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF GRADE 6 STUDENTS

Abstract

This study explores the effect of using the SQ4R Technique to develop the English reading comprehension ability of grade 6 students. The purposes of this research were 1) to study and compare the English reading comprehension ability before and after using the SQ4R Technique of grade 6 students and 2) to study students’ attitude towards teaching English reading comprehension using the SQ4R Technique.
The sample group consisted of 38 grade 6 students at Ban Nonghan (Wankru 2502) School, under the Udon Thani Primary Education Service Area Office 3, in the first semester of academic year 2024. The design of this research was a one group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments were lesson plans, an English reading comprehension ability test, and an attitude questionnaire. The experiment lasted 12 weeks, 2 hours a week, or 24 hours in all. The mean percentage, standard deviation, one-sample t-test, and t-test for dependent samples were employed to analyze the data. The findings of this research
were as follows: 1) The students’ pretest and posttest of English reading comprehension ability mean scores were 18.34 or 45.86 percent and 31.08 or 77.70 percent, respectively.
The students’ posttest mean score on English reading comprehension ability was higher than
the set criterion of 70 percent, and the students’ English reading comprehension ability after the experiment was significantly higher than that of the pretest, and 2) The students’ attitude towards teaching English reading comprehension using the SQ4R Technique was at a good level.