The Communicative Abilities of Ethnic Student Teachers by Teaching Thai as a Second Language Based on The Communicative Approach and Cooperative Learning

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: 1) to study the communicative abilities of ethnic student teachers by teaching Thai as a second language based on the communicative approach and cooperative learning; and 2) to study the satisfaction of the students with teaching Thai as a second language based on the communicative approach and cooperative learning. The participants were 25 ethnic students majoring in Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University studying in the third semester of the 2021 academic year. The students in the Khru Rak Thin project were selected by purposive sampling method. The research instruments were the communicative ability test, the instructional plan and the satisfaction survey. The descriptive statistics (mean (X ̅), the standard deviation (S.D.)) and the t-test were employed. The research results showed that the ethnic student teachers had significant higher scores in communicative abilities after learning than before treatment at the level of .05; and the ethnic student teachers’ satisfaction toward the developing learning management was at the high level.