Development of Reading Comprehension of Students at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Phitsanulok Using English Storybook Entitled Parachute Rice Growing

Abstract

This research was to develop the reading comprehension skill with two main objectives which were: 1) studying the learning achievement in English reading comprehension using English storybook entitled Parachute Rice Growing, and 2) studying the students’ satisfaction towards learning English reading comprehension using English storybook and the students’ satisfaction in the English storybook entitled Parachute Rice Growing. The participants were 92 students who  enrolled in English for Academic Purpose course in the first semester of the Academic Year 2018 at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Phitsanulok. The instruments used for the research were lesson plans of reading comprehension skill, English storybook entitled Rice Parachute Growing, reading comprehension achievement test, and a questionnaire on students’ satisfaction towards learning the reading comprehension using English storybook and students’ satisfaction on the English storybook entitled Parachute Rice Growing. The gathered data were analyzed by using mean , standard deviation (S.D.), and T-test. The findings were as followes: 1) The students’ learning achievement in reading comprehension by using English storybook after the instruction was significantly higher than that before the instruction at the level of 0.01. 2) The overall result of students’ satisfaction towards learning the reading comprehension by using English storybook was at a high level with the mean score of 4.36 and the standard deviation of 0.56, while the students’ satisfaction in English storybook entitled Parachute Rice Growing was at a high level with the mean score of 4.37 and the standard deviation of 0.61 respectively.