A Comparison of Seventh Grade Thai Students' Reading Comprehension and Motivation to Read English through Applied Instruction Based on the Genre-Based Approach and the Teacher's Manual

Autor/inn/en	Sawangsamutchai, Yutthasak; Rattanavich, Saowalak
Titel	A Comparison of Seventh Grade Thai Students' Reading Comprehension and Motivation to Read English through Applied Instruction Based on the Genre-Based Approach and the Teacher's Manual
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 9 (2016) 4, S.54-63 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Secondary School Students; Grade 7; Reading Comprehension; Reading Motivation; Reading Instruction; Teaching Methods; Teaching Guides; Randomized Controlled Trials; Pretests Posttests; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Statistical Analysis; Reading Achievement; Scores; Hypothesis Testing; Comparative Analysis; Language Tests; Likert Scales; Thailand; Test of English as a Foreign Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sekundarschüler; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Leseverstehen; Lesemotivation; Leseunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerhandbuch; Statistische Analyse; Leseleistung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Language test; Sprachtest; Likert-Skala
Abstract	The objective of this research is to compare the English reading comprehension and motivation to read of seventh grade Thai students taught with applied instruction through the genre-based approach and teachers' manual. A randomized pre-test post-test control group design was used through the cluster random sampling technique. The data were analyzed by basic statistics, the t-test for independent samples and the t-test for dependent samples. The experimental group students taught with applied instruction through the genre-based approach showed significantly higher scores in reading comprehension of and motivation to read English than those in the control group taught by methods according to the teacher's manual at a 0.05 confidence level. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01