ความวิตกกังวลในการเรียนภาษาไทย: กรณีศึกษานักศึกษา แลกเปลี่ยนชาวจีน มหาวิทยาลัยธุรกิจบัณฑิตย์
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The purposes of this research were 1) to investigate the levels of anxiety in learning Thai among Chinese students majoring in Thai for Careers at Dhurakij Pundit University; and 2) to compare the Chinese students’ levels of anxiety in the Thai language classroom in terms of genders. The subjects that participated in this research were 54 third-year Chinese exchange students enrolled in the second semester of academic year 2019 at Dhurakij Pundit University. The data collection instrument was a five-point rating scale questionnaire covering 36 items in six aspects. The statistics used for the data analysis were percentage, mean, and t-test. The research findings revealed the following. One, the Chinese students experienced a moderate level of anxiety in Thai language learning in each aspect and overall investigated in this study. Their anxiety regarding reading and writing Thai was ranked the highest, and two, the male respondents did not significantly demonstrate levels of anxiety in the Thai language classroom different from the female respondents. However, a further finding showed that the male respondents had a higher level of Thai language anxiety than that of the female respondents in almost all aspects except their anxiety in reading.
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