EFFECTS OF LEARNING CHINESE PHONETIC (HANYU PINYIN) THROUGH CHINESE RECITATION PRACTICE FOR MODERN BUSINESS ENGLISH PROGRAM STUDENTS, MUBAN CHOM BUENG RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1. develop a learning package on Chinese alphabetic pronunciation (Hanyu Pinyin) for a Foundation Chinese Course, through recitation, for the students from Modern Business English program, Muban Chombueng Rajabaht University with the 75/75 criteria of efficiency; 2. compare the learning achievements of the students’ pronunciation before and after learning through the developed packaged; and 3. survey students’ satisfaction toward the experience of the pronunciation learning package through recitation. The research population consisted of 46 Modern Business English program students, including those 12 freshmen, 10 sophomores, 10 juniors, and 14 seniors. By Purposive Sampling, 20 samples (from the sophomores, and junior classes) were eventually selected to enroll in the experiment, in the first semester of 2022. The research tools for data collection consisted of a pretest and posttest, a learning package on Chinese alphabetic (Hanyu Pinyin) pronunciation through recitation, a satisfaction survey, a validation form on the effectiveness of all the contents, and lesson plans. Data analysis on the efficiency evaluation of the learning package was conducted by using mean, and percentage. For the learning achievements comparison, a dependent t-test was employed, and descriptive statistics of mean, and S.D. were also used for the satisfaction survey.

        The findings were discovered as follows: 1. the effectiveness of the learning package was at 75.60/76.80 which was considered higher than the criterion set of 75/75; 2. The students’ achievement after experiencing the learning package was higher than that of before, at a significant level of 0.5.; 3. The students’ satisfaction toward the learning package was considerably at a high level ( = 4.44, S.D. = 0.61).