THE EFFECTS OF USING RAFT STRATEGY ON THAI CREATIVE WRITING ABILITY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Abstract

         This research aims to study an ability of creative writing by using RAFT strategy of undergraduate student in two points. One is to calculate students’ score after launching this technique, another is to compare the result between pre-test and post-test. The population of this research was selected by purposive sampling from undergraduate student in Thai major, Faculty of Education, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University. From 30 selected samples, the timeframe of this study held seven weeks. Regarding to research tools, three types of writing comprising letter, essay, and article were provided in term of tests and exercises by using RAFT method. The result demonstrates that an average score showing creative writing’s ability after using RAFT marks above expected criterion from 70 percentages to 83.20. Another point to concern is that post-test score obviously increases from pre-test. It gained only percent of 60.22 before climbing to 81.44 at last.