The Use of Career Awareness Comic Book to Enhance English Language Learning for Primary School Students in the People’s Republic of China

Abstract

In China, primary school serves as the initial phase of English instruction and career awareness education. Numerous issues in contemporary English language instruction have resulted in the ineffectiveness of English acquisition. Insufficient career awareness education will result in pupils' deficiency in life goal planning. This research enhances career awareness and English education while promoting English instruction through comic book. The research aimed to: 1) compare the learning achievement scores after using the career awareness comic book. 2) Identify the rate of effectiveness after using the career awareness comic book. The population consisted of 76 students of the 5th grade students of a primary school. Use English for the career awareness comic book. The statistics used to analyze and interpret the data included mean (X̅), standard deviation (S.D.), t-test, and effectiveness index. The research result found that 1) the paired t-test of pre-test and post-test showed that there were differences at the statistical significance level of 0.05 (t=42.10, p=0.00). The results also revealed that the effectiveness index was .2205; in other words, the students had higher post-test scores of 22.05 percent of cognitive score improvement.

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Yunchun Li, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand
Metee Pigultong, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand