EFFECTS OF PROGRAM TO PROMOTE CHALLENGE-SEEKING IN LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE BASED ON THE MINDSET THEORY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ผลของโปรแกรมส่งเสริมการแสวงหาความท้าทายในการเรียนรู้ภาษาอังกฤษตามทฤษฎีกรอบความคิดของนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิต
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The purposes of this research were to examine the effect of the program to promote challenge-seeking in learning English Language based on the mindset theory of undergraduate students. The participants of this study consisted of 39 fourth years students from a private university in Bangkok, consisting of 19 experimental group students and 20 control group students. The Instruments included a program to promote challenge -seeking in learning English Language based on the mindset theory. The training program contained six periods with 75 minutes in each period for three weeks and the challenge- seeking in learning English language scale. The data collection consisted of pretest and posttest phases and the data were analyzed by T- Test. The findings were 1) an experimental group gain a higher post-test than pre-test score at .05 significant level (Mpretest = 126.05, SDpretest = 31.10 and Mposttest = 153.52, SDposttest =16.49, t = -3.25 , p = .002) and 2) at the post-test phase and the experimental group gain a challenge - seeking score higher than a control group at the .05 significant level (Mposttest = 4.16, SDposttest = 0.44 and Mposttest = 3.36, SDposttest = 0.18, t=7.13, p = .000).
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