The Creation of Phonics Innovative Series to Improvethe English Pronunciation Skills of Primary School Students

Abstract

This research aimed 1) to create the phonics innovative series to be effective according to a criteria of 80/80, 2) to compare grade 1 students’ English pronunciation achievements before and after learning with the phonics innovative series, and 3) to study the students’ satisfaction toward the phonics innovative series. The participants selected by simple random sampling were 85 grade 1 students. The students were selected from 9 schools affiliated with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in Dusit District: Wat Chansamosorn School, Wat Dhevaraj Kunchorn School, Wat Pracha Rabuetham School, Wat Thammaphirataram School, Wat Benchamabophit School, Wat Ratchaphatigaram School, Wat Samananumborihan School, Sukhothai School, and Wat Sawaswareesimaram School. The instruments were the phonics innovative series, the quality assessment forms for evaluating the phonics innovative series, the pronunciation tests, and the questionnaires. The data obtained were analyzed by the applications of frequency, mean, standard deviation, and t-test.
The study’s findings revealed as follows: 1) The efficiency of the phonics innovative series was 80.89/81.00 conforming to the defined criteria. 2) The students had more English pronunciation achievement than before using the phonics innovative series with statistically significant at the level of.05. 3) The students’ satisfaction towards the phonics innovative series was at a high level (x̅=4.68, S.D.=0.09).