The Development of Thai Language Learning Activities on the Topic “Grade 1 Primary School Students’ Word Reading and Writing through the use of Multimedia”

The purposes of this research were (1) to find out the effectiveness of the Thai language learning activity plans on the topic “Grade 1 Primary School Students’ Word Reading and Writing Through the Use of Multimedia” based on the 70/70 criterion, (2) to find out the effectiveness index of the Thai learning activity plans on the topic “Grade 1 Primary School Students’ Word Reading and Writing through the use of Multimedia” and (3) to study grade 1 primary school students’ satisfaction toward the Thai language learning activity plans concerning word reading and writing through the use of multimedia. Selected through the purposive sampling method, the participants of the study were 189 grade 1 primary school students’ enrolled in the second semester of the academic year 2016 from various schools under the jurisdiction of Muang Mahasarakham Education Division. The research tools included three Thai language learning activity plans on the topic “Grade 1 Primary School Students’ Word Reading and Writing Through the use of Multimedia” all of which were rated at the ‘highest’ level; an achievement test which was a multiple-choice test covering 20 items; and a satisfaction form comprising 10 questions each with a 3-scale answer. The statistics employed included percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results revealed that the effectiveness of the Thai language learning activity plans on the topic “Grade 1 Primary School Students’ Word Reading and Writing through the use of Multimedia” was 78.61/79.78, thus meeting the 70/70 criterion. The effectiveness index was 0.7112. This figure indicated that the student achievement after learning was higher than before learning by 71.12%. Besides, the mean score for the students’ satisfaction toward the Thai language learning activity plans on the topic was 2.79 out of 3, which was considered to be at the “very satisfied” level