Developing Reading Comprehension Skills for Grade 6 Students at Piboonbumpen Demonstration School using Multimedia

Abstract

           This research aims to develop reading comprehension skills for grade 6 students by using Multimedia. It has been conducted for the sixth-grade students at Burapha University: Piboonbumpen Demonstration School. The sample group is comprised of 34 sixth grade students in the academic year 2016 of Burapha University: Piboonbumpen Demonstration School, Chonburi. This sample was selected by applying the purposive sampling method. The tools used for collecting data are lesson plans, which include multimedia and an ability test for reading skills which consists of 30 questions. The data was analysed by using dependent t-test statistics. The result of the analysis shows that the efficiency of teaching with multimedia was 83.33/ 84.90, higher than the criteria standard of 80/80. The reading skills of the students are higher after the training using multimedia for teaching in the reading comprehension skills lesson at a statistical significance level of .05.