DEVELOPING RECOGNITION ABILITY AND RETENTION IN CHINESE VOCABULARIES WITH GAMIFICATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Abstract

          The purposes of this research were to; 1) to compare recognition ability on Chinese vocabularies of the undergraduate students using Gamification before and after treatment; 2) to investigate the retention of Chinese vocabularies among the undergraduate students using Gamification. 3) to explore undergraduate students' satisfactions towards Chinese learning by using Gamification. The sample being used were 25 undergraduate students, minoring Chinese language at College of Innovative Business and Accountancy, Dhurakij Pundit University in the second semester of the academic year 2023. The sample of this research was drawn through Cluster random sampling. The research instruments were as follows: 1) lessons plans using Gamification, 2) tests on recognition ability on Chinese vocabularies; and 3) a questionnaire for exploring the student’s satisfaction towards Chinese learning by using Gamification. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, and T-test. The research results found that the score from posttest of the students’ recognition ability on Chinese vocabularies after using Gamification was higher than that of pretest at the 0.05 level of significance. 2) Scores of the first test and the second test on the students’ Chinese vocabularies retention were slightly different at 0.48. As a result, it could be in line with the hypothesis. 3) Undergraduate students’ satisfaction towards Chinese learning by using Gamification was at the high level.