Abstract:
The purposes of this paper were 1) to investigate grade 1 and 4 students’ performance on English listening, speaking, reading, writing skills including grammar 2) to determine whether their thinking skills are developed during the course 3) to assess students’ achievement whether their scores after being taught by Projects: Play & Learn are higher than those before being taught and 4) to evaluate users’ satisfaction toward the resource.The sample groups included grade 1 and 4 students from 3 different schools. They were as follows: 72 students from Klongglum, 24 students from Chumchonbaanlat and 18 students from Baanphiilieng. The subjects were selected by purposive sampling method. One-group pretest-posttest design was used and data were analyzed by Ttest dependent samples. The findings lends a positive support toward the implementation of the resource “Projects: Play & Learn” in a classroom. The results revealed that students from Klong Koom School, Chum Chon Baan Laad and Baan Phii Liang performed better in both linguistic and cognitive skills at the end than at the beginning of the year. The students also had higher scores in the achievement test at the end of the school year. In addition, it showed that both teachers and students were satisfied with the CD-rom and website. This suggests that the resource should be implemented as one of the extra curriculum resources in tablets or smart phones
