Effects of minor game activities based on the total physical response (TPR) language teaching concept to enhance bilingual preschool children’s listening and following instruction abilities, the laboratory school of Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to compare bilingual preschool children’s listening and following instruction abilities before and after implementing Minor game activities based on the total physical response language teaching concept. The population consisted of 64 bilingual preschool children, boys and girls, aged between 3 - 4 years, who studied in Kindergarten Year 1 during the first semester of the academic year 2024 at the Laboratory School of Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University from 4 classrooms; all classrooms had similar characteristics. Cluster random sampling was used to select samples of 16 bilingual preschool children, 1 classroom from 4 classrooms. The research duration was 8 weeks, 3 days a week, 30-40 minutes a day, totaling 24 times. The research instruments included 24 lesson plans of Minor games activity based on the total physical response language teaching concept with an IOC between 0.67-1.00 and a bilingual preschool children’s listening and following direction test with the IOC of 1.00. The statistics used for data analysis were mean and standard deviation and for finding tools quality were difficulty value, discriminant value, and reliability value using KR-20 formula, and a dependent t-test was used for hypothesis testing.

The research findings revealed that bilingual preschool children, after implementing Minor game activities based on the total physical response language teaching concept higher than before the experiment with statistically significant at .05 level overall and each aspect which included: 1) TPR–B or TPR Body, 2) TPR-O or TPR Object, 3) TPR-P or TPR Picture, and 4) TPR-S or TPR Story. This demonstrated that Minor game activities based on the total physical response language teaching concept could enhance bilingual preschool children’s listening and following direction abilities overall and in each aspect.