The Circumstances of Thai Teaching and Learning Activities of Undergraduate Chinese Students Majoring Thai Language at Universities in Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China

Abstract

This research study aimed to study the Thai teaching and learning activities situations of Chinese students majoring Thai language,  the Bachelor of Arts program at universities in Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China. The population included 655 fourth year Chinese students who studied in the Thai Language Program in the first semester of the 2018 academic year among 16 universities. The data was collected by a questionnaire as an instrument and the statistics used in data analysis were percentage, means, and standard deviation.     

The results were found that students always attend classes and extracurricular knowledge were utmost provided. The class activities were more emphasized on translation and writing skills than speaking, reading, and listening skills. The activities arranged outside class consisted of art and culture learning and the practicum of Thai language. Moreover, watching movies, Thai dramas, and listening to Thai music were the most out-of-class activities that students have attended. Various types of classroom teaching materials were implemented appropriately to achieve the learning objectives, and the syllabus textbook was most commonly used. With respect to the evaluation of the learning, the defined rules applied appropriately to the content.Extracurricular practice is an assessment method that students were initially most interested.