English Reading Skill Development with Cooperative Learning Of Students at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the effect of using STAD Cooperative Learning Activities to develop the English Reading Comprehension in English for Communication 2 taken by RMUTT students 2) to assess the students’ satisfaction toward learning English after participating STAD Cooperative Learning Activities.The sample comes from Economics Major, the Faculty of Business Administration. The total number of sample were 55 students derived from the purposive sampling method and all of them enrolled in English for Communication 2 (01320002) in the second semester of academic year 2017, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi. The instrument employed to collect data were 1) lesson plans of English Reading Comprehension by Cooperative Learning with STAD technique consisting of 5 units whose the units periods are 90 minutes. 2) The pre-test and post-test to measure learning achievement in English Reading Comprehension. 3) The questionnaire used to assess the students’ satisfaction toward learning English by using STAD Cooperative Learning Activities.Percentage, Average, Standard Deviation (S.D.) and the matched pair t-test were used to analyze the collected data.

The research findings are as follows.

1. After taking STAD Cooperative Learning Activities, the students post-test reading comprehension scores were significantly higher than the pre-test scores at the 0.001 level.

2. The overall results of students’ satisfaction level toward reading comprehension learning with cooperative learning using STAD technique was quite high (Mean = 4.06, S.D. = 0.57). Furthermore, considering the students’ satisfaction in depth, their overall level of satisfaction was the highest in all aspects.