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

Yutthasak Sawangsamutchai and Saowalak Rattanavich

English Language Teaching, 2016, vol. 9, issue 4, 54

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 .05 confidence level.

Date: 2016
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