Development of Board Game Enhancing Grade 10 Students’ English Vocabulary and Associative Thinking
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Board game, Vocabulary memorizing skills, Associative thinking skillsAbstract
The purpose of this research were 1) to develop the board game for enhancing grade 10 students’ English vocabulary and associative thinking skills, 2) to develop grade 10 students’ English vocabulary, and 3) determine associative thinking skills for grade 10 students. The participants were selected by a convenience sampling technique which consisted of 40 students in grade 10 from a school in Thailand in the academic year 2023. Research instruments consisted of 1) International Food Board Game, 2) English vocabulary and associative thinking skills pre-test, and 3) English vocabulary and associative thinking skills post-test. The descriptive statistics used for the data analysis were mean, standard deviation, and t-test.
The result of the study were as follows. 1) grade 10 students’ memorizing skills after using International Food board game(x ̅=7.98, SD=1.44) were higher than before using the board game (x ̅=5.63, SD=1.13) . There was a statistically significant difference at .01 level which revealed that the board game could improve students’ memorizing skills. 2) Grade 10 students associative thinking skills after using International Food board game (x ̅=8.48,SD=1.41) were higher than before (x ̅=4.83, SD=1.12). There was a statistically significant difference at .01 level.
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