The impacts of confucius theory-based strategy for teaching Chinese oral reading on P6 students of Phuket Thaihua Asean Wittaya School

Abstract

The aims of this research were to investigate the students’ achievement in learning Chinese oral reading using the Confucius Theory-Based Strategy, to survey the students’ opinions about their learning Chinese oral reading using the Confucius Theory-Based Strategy, and to survey the students’ parents’ opinions about their children learning Chinese oral reading using the Confucius Theory-Based Strategy. The research focused on P6 primary students attending a Chinese course in a Chinese program. The population was 1,576 (Chinese program from K1 to M6) students. The sample using simple sampling selection method was 26 of P6 students who learned with Confucius Theory-Based Strategy through Di Zi Gui textbook and performed as an experimental group. This study used dependent-samples t-test to test the students’ achievements from the pretest and posttest scores. The survey of students and parents to find their opinions was used one-sample t-test to test the opinion level in each question. SPSS program of one-tailed Dependent-Samples t-test was used for pretest and posttest analysis. Questionnaires were analyzed to result the opinions of students and parents by using simple calculation to obtain percentage. The results showed that before using Confucius Theory-Based Strategy, the pretest mean score was 132.92, and after using was 145.42 in the posttest. It showed that the improvement of the students’ Chinese knowledge increased according to the mean difference of 12.50. The opinions of students about their learning Chinese oral reading using the Confucius Theory-Based Strategy showed that 1) the course with Di Zi Gui textbook and the teaching methods by using Confucius Theory-Based Strategy were suitable (80.77%), 2) the students thought the clarity of their aims to learn Di Zi Gui textbook was not clear enough (76.92%), 3) the best method to learn Confucius Theory- Based Strategy was modern learning method (69.23%), the Chinese text was difficult (69.23%), and the teaching method by using Confucius Theory-Based Strategy was suitable (69.23%) respectively. The opinions of parents about their children learning Chinese oral reading using the Confucius Theory-Based Strategy showed that 1) the parents thought