The Impacts of Chinese Students’ Thai Cultural Competency in Teaching and Learning in Chiang Mai University

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) To study the level comprehension of Thai culture by Chinese students 2) To study the different factors including grade, time of residence in Thailand, time spent learning the Thai language, interest in Thai culture, attitude towards Thai culture instruction, interest in Thai culture, and effect of instructional management on the level comprehension regarding Thai Culture 3) To study the level satisfaction of Chinese students with instructional management. The data collection used a questionnaire as the research tool and data was presented in the forms of analyzed frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, dependent t - t statistics, One-Way ANOVA, and differences between two groups were compared using multiple comparisons with Least Significant Difference (LSD) for assumption testing. The results of this research showed that 1) Chinese students, comprehension of Thai Culture was at the mid–level, with an average score of 3.04. 2) That different factors including grade, time of residence in Thailand, time spent learning Thai language, and interest in Thai culture have an effect on the level comprehension regarding Thai Culture. In addition, different factors including attitude towards Thai culture instruction and interest in Thai culture instructional management have no effect on the level comprehension regarding Thai Culture, and 3) The level of satisfaction of Chinese students with instructional management was at high level, with the average score of 3.67.