Hands-on Parental Involvement to Enhance Student’s Language and Communicative Ability of the Pre-nursery students at Hummingbird International Kindergarten, Thailand
Keywords:
Hands-on parental involvement, pre-nursery students, Language and communicative ability, satisfaction of parents towards Hands-on parent involvementAbstract
The objectives of this research were to develop a set of Hands-on learning activities for parents to do with students at home, and to evaluate the effectiveness of a set of Hands-on learning activities for parents to do with students at home. The research design was pre-experimental pre-test and post-test design. The participants were composed of the 9 pre-nursery students and their parents in the 2nd semester of the academic year 2023-2024 of Hummingbird International Kindergarten, Thailand. The research instruments were the 4 Lesson plans, the student’s language and communicative ability pre-test and post-test, and the parents’ satisfaction questionnaire. The used statistic was mean, standard deviation, and Wilcoxon signed ranks test statistics.
The results were as follows: (1) A set of Hands-on learning activities for parents to do with students at home was composed of 4 Lesson plans on 4 topics as Colours, Fruits, Animals, and Vehicles. (2) The post-test score on Language and communicative ability of the pre-nursery students after implementing a set of Hands-on learning activities for parents to do at home was significantly higher than that of the pre-test score at the level of .05. and (3) The average level of satisfaction of parents with a set of Hands-on learning activities for parents to do with students at home was at a high level (Mean=4.32).
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