Scholar: Vol. 12, No. 2 (2020)
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ItemA comparative study of Grade 6 students' academic achievement and motivation for learning English as a foreign language under cooperative teaching method and traditional teaching method at Watbangchalongnai School, samut Prakan, ThailandThe purpose of this study was to find if cooperative teaching methods in Watbangchalongnai School, Samut Prakan, Thailand, would enhance Grade 6 students’ English academic achievement, measured by their abilities in grammar, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. The study also sought to measure students’ motivation for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). For the purpose of the study, the researcher conducted an intervention experiment for 12 weeks, from December 2018 to March 2019, in which two intact Grade 6 groups were chosen, one as experimental group and the other as control group. During the experiment, subjects in the experimental group (39 students) attended classes based on cooperative teaching method. The control group (39 students), on the other hand, did not carry out any additional activities to traditional teaching method. Tocontrol as many variables as possible, the number of classes per week, duration of each class and components to be taught were all the same in both groups. In order to test the effectiveness of such strategy, two quantitative tools for data collection were used to compile the findings of the study. To begin with, a pre-test and a post-test were administered to measure students’ academic achievement in learning EFL before and after the treatment. Afterwards, a questionnaire was distributed to both groups inorder to measure students’ motivation for learning EFL. The results of the independent samples t-test on a difference of academic achievement revealed a significant difference between the two groups. The sample means showed that subjects in the experimental group increased their academic achievement from the pre-test to the post-test significantly more than subjects in the control group.Results regarding motivation for learning EFL failed to reveal a significant difference between the two groups. The sample means showed that subjects in the experimental group demonstrated high mean scores on motivation for learning EFL, which were statistically similar to those shown by subjects in the control group. Based on the research findings, recommendations for students, teachers, administrators and future researchers are provided.
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ItemA correlational study of self-efficacy and perceived parental encouragement for learning English as a foreign language with English academic achievement of Batch 5 and Batch 6 students at level up academy, Loikaw Township, Kayah State, Myanmar( 2020) Alexander ; Gonzalez, Orlando Rafael GonzalezThe purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate if there was a significant relationship of self-efficacy and perceived parental encouragement for learning English as a foreign language with English academic achievement of Batch 5 and Batch 6 students at Level Up Academy, Loikaw Township, Kayah State, Myanmar. A population sample of 71 students from Batch 5 (34 students) and Batch 6 (37 students), enrolled during the academic year 2017-2018, was chosen for this study. A 32-item questionnaire was used to measure the levels of self-efficacy for learning EFL, including its four subscales (listening efficacy, speaking efficacy, reading efficacy and writing efficacy); an 8-item questionnaire was used to measure perceived parental encouragement for learning EFL; and the levels of English academic achievement were determined using the English subject’s final test. After data collection was done, descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) and a statistical hypothesis testing (correlational analysis using Pearson’s product moment correlation and multiple correlation coefficient) were carried out to address the research objectives and hypotheses of this study. The research findings indicated that the levels of self-efficacy for learning EFL of both Batch 5 and Batch 6 students were slightly high. It was also found that the level of perceived parental encouragement of Batch 5 students was slightly high, while that of Batch 6 students was moderately high. The English subject’s final test revealed that Batch 5 and Batch 6 students had good English academic achievement. Correlational analysis using Pearson’s product moment correlation suggested that there was a strong, significant and positive relationship of self-efficacy for learning EFL with English academic achievement of Batch 5 and Batch 6 students. However, there was not significant relationship of perceived parental encouragement for learning EFL with English academic achievement of Batch 5 and Batch 6 students. The four subscales of self-efficacy for learning EFL (listening, speaking, reading and writing efficacy) were also strongly, positively and significantly correlated with English academic achievement of Batch 5 and Batch 6 student Level Up Academy, Loikaw Township, Kayah State, Myanmar.
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ItemA correlational-comparative study of perception of ICT use in the classroom and academic achievement of Grades 3 and 4 students in Chinese language class at Prasarnmit Primary School International program in Bangkok, Thailand( 2020) Liu, Sijia ; Gonzalez, Orlando Rafael GonzalezThis study was conducted to identify whether there was a significant difference in perception of ICT use in the classroom between Grades 3 and 4 students learning Chinese as a foreign language at Prasarnmit Primary School International Program (PPiP)in Bangkok, Thailand. Also, this study examined the relationship between the perception of ICT use in the classroom held by these students and their academic achievement in Chinese language class. ICT Use in Learning Chinese Questionnaire, comprised of 13 items using a 5-point Likert scale, was used for measuring the level of perceptions of ICT use in the classroom. Forty-eight students participated in this study, conducted during the academic year 2018-2019. The research findings showed that Grade 3 students held, onaverage, a moderate perception of ICT use in the classroom in Chinese language class, while Grade 4 students held a positive perception instead. The study also showed that the level of academic achievement of Grade 3 students in Chinese language class was satisfactory, while for Grade 4 students was fairly good. The results showedthat there was no significant relationship between perception of ICT use in the classroom and academic achievement of both Grades 3 and 4 students in Chinese language class at PPiP. Also, there was no significant difference in perception of ICT use in theclassroom between Grades 3 and 4 students in Chinese language class at PPiP.