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https://rsuir-library.rsu.ac.th/handle/123456789/2183| Title: | Learning motivation and attitude towards learning Thai as a third language of Chinese students at a Thaiprivate university |
| Authors: | Jie Tong |
| metadata.dc.contributor.advisor: | Anchalee Chayanuvat |
| Keywords: | Thai language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign students;Motivation in education;Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Thai |
| Issue Date: | 2022 |
| Publisher: | Rangsit University Library |
| metadata.dc.description.other-abstract: | With rising significance of multilingualism in the present world, research on learning motivation for learning a third language needs to be emphasized. The research on the motivation of learning a less commonly taught language as a third language is particularly worth exploring. This study adapted "Attitude/Motivation Test Battery" (AMTB) designed by Gardner (1985) to collect the data from a sample group of 82 Chinese students as questionnaire respondents from a population of 450. Then, with purposive sampling technique, 8 highly motivated students were selected to participate in the structured interview to explore the motivation and attitudes of Chinese students learning Thai as a third language at a private Thai university. In general, there are two types of motivation for students to learn a foreign language: integrative orientation and instrumental orientation. However, the findings revealed that Chinese students in this group had integrative motivation to learn Thai with the mean score of 4.33 (S.D = 1.470), while the mean score of the instrumental orientation, which was the initial motivation, was 4.06 (S.D = 1.590). According to the interview data analysis, external motivational factors including language environment, teacher's professionalism and learning atmosphere, and the Internet, as well as internal motivational factors consisting of learning interest and learning strategies, were found to affect Thai language learning motivation of the students. The study found that Chinese students had a positive attitude towards learning Thai (Mean = 4.07; S.D = 1.479), from the affective, behavioral or cognitive aspects, which was also reflected in the interview results. Therefore, recommendation was that more attention should be paid to the development of integrative motivation from instrumental motivation found at the beginning. |
| Description: | Thesis (M.Ed.(In Bilingual Education)) -- Rangsit University, 2022 |
| metadata.dc.description.degree-name: | Master of Education |
| metadata.dc.description.degree-level: | Master's Degree |
| metadata.dc.contributor.degree-discipline: | Bilingual Education |
| URI: | https://rsuir-library.rsu.ac.th/handle/123456789/2183 |
| metadata.dc.type: | Thesis |
| Appears in Collections: | EDU-Bil-M-Theses |
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