The Development to Analytical Reading Skill through the Comic Strips in Thai Newspapers Analytical Reading Package for Thai Major Freshmen at Chiang Rai Rajabhat University

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the students’ analytical reading competence by using the analytical reading Package for the Thai major freshmen, Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, and 2) to investigate the satisfaction of the first-year students majoring in Thai language at Chiang Rai Rajabhat University. The sample group used in this research consisted of 21 students in the first year of Thai language major, obtained by purposive random sampling method. The research tools were 1) the Package to promote analytical reading by using comic strips in Thai newspapers, 2) the analytical reading competence tests, and 3) the student satisfaction questionnaire towards learning by using package to promote analytical reading by using comic strips in Thai newspapers for the first-year students majoring in Thai language at Chiang Rai Rajabhat University. The researchers analyzed the data using mean, percentage, standard deviation, and t-test for dependent samples. Results were found that 1) the efficiency of package to promote analytical reading by using comic strips in Thai newspapers was 67.78/83.02., 2) the students had a statistically significantly higher mean score on the analytical reading competence scale of .05 than before studying, and 3) the students who studied using the package to promote analytical reading using comic strips in Thai newspapers had the highest level of overall satisfaction at “very satisfied” level, with the average at 4.77, S.D. = 0.48.