The Effect of Integrating Cooperative Learning to a Three - Minute Pause on Reading Comprehension Ability of Primary Three Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) Compare the effect of learning management model of integrating cooperative learning (CIRC) to a three-minute pause on students’ success of Thai reading comprehension, and 2) Compare students’attitude towards the learning of Thai language through the integration of cooperative learning to a three-minute pause. Samples obtained by means of cluster sampling were fourty-four Primary three students of Wat Srikhakkanang School, Pathumthani Province. They were later equally placed into two groups of mixed ability students, an experimental and a control group. Pre-test was administered to test students’ reading ability before the application of the integrated cooperative learning to a three-minute pause for the teaching of reading comprehension of Thai language. Research instruments comprised lesson plans, a test for Thai reading comprehension, a questionnaire asking for students’ opinions towards the teaching method, and a field note. The statistical data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The results indicated that 1) Thai reading comprehension scores of students from the experimental group were higher than those of the control group at the significant level of .05. 2) Students’ level of satisfaction towards Thai language learning of the experimental group was higher than that of the control group at the significant level of .05