THE GAMIFICATION IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO GRADE 5 STUDENTS OF ST, ROBERTS'S INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE IN BANGKOK,THAILAND

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to : a) study the pre-test and post test scores of Grade-5 students at St. Robert's International College in their English subjects using Gamification, b) compare the pre-test and post-test scores of Grade-5 students at SRIC in their English subjects using Gamification, and c) study the level of satisfaction of grade 5 students at SRIC after using gamification model in their English subject. The target group was 15 Grade 5 elementary students of St. Robert's International College in the second semester of the academic year 2021,and the research tools were adopted pre-test and post-test, a satisfaction survey, and a self-constructed lesson plan on the implementation of gamification in a language classroom. Three experts checked the content validity of the lesson plan based on the index of item-objective congruence ratings. The data was analyzed using percentage, frequency, means and t-test. The findings of this study showed that a) the average post-test scores of Grade-5 students was mean = 8.70, S.D. = 1.38, and the average score of the pre-test mean = 6.65, S.D. = 2.16, b) the comparison of pre-test and post-test were statistically significant at a level of 0.001 with the level of (p<0.05), thereby accepting the research hypothesis that there is a significant difference in the pre-test and post-test score, and c) there were 13 students or 90% had the most satisfied level and 2 students or 10% had very satisfied level.