Thesis (M.A.)--Chulalongkorn University, 2015

The objectives of this study are 1) to investigate the needs for developing community-based materials, 2) to examine the effectiveness of community-based materials for teaching English reading ability, and 3) to examine the effectiveness of community-based materials for teaching local cultural knowledge. The samples were 44 twelfth grade students a government school in Thawi Watthana District, Bangkok. The duration of the experiment lasted for 10 weeks. The instruments were 1) community-based questionnaire, 2) English reading ability test, and 3) local cultural knowledge test. The data will be analyzed using a pair sample t-test, mean score, effect size, and standard deviation. After the implementation of the community-based materials, the results were 1) the materials’ physical aspects, content, and reading tasks for twelve grade students to teach English reading ability and local cultural knowledge. 2) The post-test mean scores of the students taking English reading ability test were higher than their pre-test mean scores significantly of 0.05. 3) The post-test mean scores of the students taking local cultural knowledge test were higher than their pre-test scores significantly of 0.05. This indicates that community-based materials is effective to teach English reading ability and promote local cultural knowledge and the sense of being active citizens towards their own local community.