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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Thai students"”.
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Thriving in the Academy: Thai Students' Experiences and Perspectives
In this dissertation, I investigate how Thai doctoral students adapt to and navigate academic expectations in their nonnative language. Through coded semi-structured interviews with eight participants from six different universities across the U.S., I analyze the lived experiences, stories, and …
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Ellipsis in science and technology textbooks in English: Implications for Thai students
… analytical study which attempted to investigate Thai students' ability to interpret elliptical sentences and to recover and recognise ellipted elements in a science and technology context in English. Students' awareness, understanding, perceptions, problems and strategies in relation to ellipsis …
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A Method of Teaching English Spelling to Thai Students at the Elementary Level
Before a Thai teacher attempts to teach English spelling to her students, she should consider the factors that complicate English spelling for the Thai student, so that she can provide effective lessons, methods of instruction, and teaching materials. Good spelling involves many areas of the …
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Dynamic Geometry Environment And Its Relation To Thai Students’ Higher-Order Thinking: Reasoning In Euclidean Geometry
… have on each other. The research is conducted in Thailand with a Thai version of The Geometer's Sketchpad to a group of 14-15 year-old lower secondary students. The research method used is a task-based interview, where pairs of students perform geometric construction and exploration tasks with …
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The use of text structure among EFL Thai students and its effects on their reading comprehension
… investigated the use of text structure among EFL Thai students and its effects on their reading comprehension. It was designed with an underlying assumption that readers who possess the previously acquired knowledge of the organizational patterns of text will be aware of text structure and will …
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Maintaining Adult Student-Parent Distal Relationships: An Explorartion of Mediated Communication Among Thai Students in the U.S.
… study was, first, to explore the experience of Thai adult students who maintain LDRs with their parents. Second, this study identified Thai students’ specific relational maintenance behaviors and examined the channels of mediated communication used among Thai adult students and their family …
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Extensive reading : an empirical study of its effects on EFL Thai students' reading comprehension, reading fluency and attitudes
… comprehension, reading fluency andattitudes of students after exposure to extensive reading (ER), an approach toteaching and learning foreign languages without using a dictionary or focusing ongrammar, but aiming to get learners to read extensively by choosing books ontheir own, for general …
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Self-Esteem, Alienation and Attitudes Toward School: A Study of Thai Students in Selected Vocational and Academic High Schools
… for the disruptive behavior of large groups of Thai vocational students could be found through an investigation of their feelings of self-esteem, alienation from society, and attitudes toward their schools. The subject population for the study comprised 360 second-year students from three …
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An investigation of syntax, semantics, and rhetoric in the English writing of fifteen Thai graduate students
… study was to examine and analyze the writing of Thai students at the graduate level in order to discover their writing problems in the areas of syntax, semantics, and rhetoric. Fifteen Thai students enrolled at an intensive language institute of a southwest public university volunteered to be the …
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Essays in experimental and development economics
… 1, I present experimental evidence about how Thais treat information from domestic and foreign sources. Thai students answer a series of objective general-knowledge questions, both before and after observing answers given by American students and other Thai students. By looking at how subjects …
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A Contrastive Rhetoric Study of Thai and *American Students' English Application Essays for Graduate Admissions
… and negative politeness strategies, none of the students used positive or negative politeness strategies exclusively. When comparing the occurrences of the two types of strategies within the same group of students, the Thai and American students both preferred positive politeness strategies to …
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An action research study of pronunciation training, language learning strategies and speaking confidence
… to English language teaching still dominate Thai classrooms. Language teachers should not focus on reciting but should teach from their own understanding of language learning and help learners gain more competence with confidence. This study is a collaborative action research investigation to …
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Collaboration in the Writing Classroom: a Study of Thai University Students
… experimental study was designed to investigate Thai students at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand on their attitudes and preferences toward peer collaboration in an English writing class. The study took three consecutive weeks to be done. There were 32 participants in this study: 12 in the …
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Scratching protest: A study of graffiti as communication in universities in Thailand
… communication channel and opportunity for Thai students in three universities in three different parts in Thailand. The writing of graffiti is deemed an illegal activity in Thailand, which makes its prevalence on the Thai university campus an intriguing issue. To understand why Thai …
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An action research study of promoting students’ confidence in speaking English
This study investigated students’ attitudes towards language learning, especially speaking, at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand. One of the important factors needing change in Thai education is the improvement of language teaching, especially speaking. The aims of the …
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Thai second language writing: the development of language knowledge and cross-cultural influence
… appear to be no studies of this kind focusing on Thai learners. This study investigates the language knowledge of Thai learners of English in an English-medium international school in Bangkok, Thailand. The objective of the study was to understand both the developmental trajectory of features of …
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Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL), Learner Autonomy, and Learning Achievement: The Use of CALL Software in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Tertiary Education in Thailand
In Thai educational contexts, some socio-cultural values and traditional teaching practices have proved to be constraints to the development of students' autonomous learning. These values and practices may contribute to poor achievement in students' acquisition of English as a foreign language …
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Content and language integrated learning in practice: Exploring pre-service EFL teachers’ beliefs and negotiation of meaning of subject-specific language in Thai secondary classrooms
The demand for English in Thailand has been increasing rapidly due to socio-political developments and the continuing growth of the economy. For Thai students, being proficient in English can enhance their education and career opportunities. To develop students’ English proficiency, both state and …
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