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ItemLearning styles and attitude towards e-learning among university undergraduate students in international programs in Bangkok ThailandThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between learning style in terms of instructional preference, social interaction, information processing and personality in e-learning in terms of visual, auditory and tactile; and attitude towards e-learning among undergraduate students in international program in Bangkok Thailand. A total of 300 respondents participated in a demographic questionnaire survey using the Learning Style Scale, Learning Style Inventory-Likert and E-learning Acceptance Scale for data collection. Regression Analysis was utilized to analyze the collected data. The result of the study finds that there is a relationship between learning styles and attitude towards elearning among undergraduate university students in international programs in Bangkok Thailand in terms of instructional preference, information processing as well as visual and tactile personality style.
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ItemTeaching to write right : looking at the "Process"( 2012) Foley, JosephThis study investigated the language choices in the writing of freshmen students at an English medium university in Thailand in response to visual stimuli. The study involved identifying the genres and the lexico-grammatical features associated with such genres. 600 samples of writing were collected but only 72 were randomly selected from 12 students in order to compare their progress over a period of 14 weeks (one semester). The framework for the analysis of the students writing was based on a detailed approach to these texts as semantic units. But since meanings are realized through the lexico- grammatical system, it was felt that this was the most effective way of making an explicit interpretation of the texts that had some objectivity. This study focuses on the first part of a two part project involving first of all the ùprocessû, then a later study dealt with the ùproductû. The paper will discuss the development of the Nominal Group (NG) in the studentsû writing in THEME position as this was felt to be a major issue in the dominantly Descriptive, Recount and Narrative genres which it was hoped they would produce. The resulting analysis showed that the students had a limited knowledge of the different genres and used an equally limited range of lexico-grammatical choices. No discernible improvement was observed over the period of study. Possible reasons for this were, firstly the lack of awareness of the role and importance that genres play in their academic studies and secondly, an approach to teaching which did not include a grammar that was functionally based. Possible alternative ways of teaching are suggested.