A comparative study of attitudes toward learning Chinese as a foreign language of Grades 3-4 students at an International School in Samut Prakarn, Thailand
by Chang, Ting-Jung; Suwattana Eamoraphan; Chayada Thanavisuth
Title: | A comparative study of attitudes toward learning Chinese as a foreign language of Grades 3-4 students at an International School in Samut Prakarn, Thailand |
Author(s): | Chang, Ting-Jung
Suwattana Eamoraphan Chayada Thanavisuth |
Issued date: | 2020 |
Citation: | Scholar: Human Sciences 12, 2 (July-December 2020), 79-94 |
Abstract: |
This study was conductedto investigate 63 Grade 3 and66 Grade 4 students’ attitudes toward learning Chinese as a foreign language (in terms ofaffective, behavioral and cognitive components) at an international school in academic year 2018-2019 in Samut Prakarn, Thailand. It was designed as a quantitative and comparative study. An adopted version of The Attitude toward Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language Questionnaireby Abidin,Pour-Mohammadiand Alzwari(2012)was used for data collection. The questionnaire included three subscales (attitude in terms of affective component, attitude in terms of behavioral component and attitude in terms of cognitive component) to discover the students’ attitudes toward learning Chinese as a foreign language. The data collected from the 129 questionnaires were analyzed by means and standard deviations, a multivariate analysis of variance(MANOVA) and independent samplest-tests. These were used to determine whether there was asignificant difference between Grades 3 and 4 students’ attitudes toward learning Chinese as a foreign language(in terms ofaffective component, behavioral component and cognitive component). The study suggestedthat there was a significant difference between Grades 3 and 4 students’ attitudes toward learning Chinese as a foreign language. |
Subject(s): | Scholar: -- Human Sciences
Scholar: -- Human Sciences -- 2020 |
Keyword(s): | Attitude toward learning Chinese as a foreign language
Grades and Language attitudes Primary year program Samut Prakarn Thailand |
Resource type: | Journal Article |
Extent: | 16 pages |
Type: | Text |
File type: | application/pdf |
Language: | eng |
Rights: | This work is protected by copyright. Reproduction or distribution of the work in any format is prohibited without written permission of the copyright owner. |
Rights holder(s): | Assumption University |
URI: | http://repository.au.edu/handle/6623004553/24248 |
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