The Development of English Reading Comprehension Skill by using Problem-Based Learning for the Second-Year-B.A. students of Teaching English (International Program) in Education Faculty at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University
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This research studied of development of English reading comprehension skill by using Problem-Based Learning for the second-year-B.A. students of teaching English (International Program) in Education Faculty at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The objectives were: 1) to study the needs and the problem of English reading comprehension skill by using Problem-Based Learning for the second year B.A. students of teaching English (International Program), 2) to develop the English reading comprehension skill by using Problem-Based Learning for the second year B.A. students of teaching English (International Program), 3) to study satisfaction in English reading comprehension skill by using Problem-Based Learning for the second year B.A. students of teaching English (International Program). This research has used the pre-Experimental research by using pre and post experiment.
The results of this research were found that
1) the needs and problems of English reading comprehension skill by using Problem-Based Learning for the second year B.A. students of teaching English (International Program) in Education Faculty at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University was found that the overall average was 4.24 which was at satisfied level.
2) the score post-test of using of the manual of English reading comprehension skill for students at Education Faculty at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University by using Action-based Learning ( = 17.50, S.D. = 1.27) was higher than pre-test of the score pre-test in the of using experiment of the manual of English reading comprehension skill for students at Education Faculty at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University by using Action-based Learning. ( = 9.00 , S.D. = 1.15) as statistically significant at 0.5.
3) the satisfaction of use experiment of the manual of English reading comprehension skill for students at Education Faculty at Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University by using Action-based Learning was found that the overall average was 4.33 which was at satisfied level.
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