Synthesis of Researches in Teaching Thai at Graduate level

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to conduct a synthesized research in Thai language teaching between 2003 - 2018, with the data drawn from abstracts, theses, dissertations and independent studies from 4 universities, namely Chulalongkorn University, Srinakharinwirot University, Silpakorn University and Ramkhamhaeng University. A total of 285 researches, with research methods including 1) Surveying and collecting research data on Thai language teaching between 2003 – 2018, 2) Record the summarized data in a notebook with Cornell Note taking system, 3) Analyze data from research by synthesis of the title, key words, and research objectives, 4) Analyzing basic information by finding basic statistics such as frequency and 5) Analyze the research trend of Thai language teaching.

The results showed that in Srinakharinwirot University, there are 116 research papers on Thai language teaching at the graduate level, accounted for 40.70 percent of the total papers, the findings showed that 143 topics were the most used in teaching methods/teaching techniques (50.17%), followed by the development ofinnovation/teaching media, where there were 126 subjects (44.21%), followed by 10 textbook analyses (3.51%), and the smallest was the measurement and evaluation which were 6 topics (2.11%). From the synthesis of all researches, it was found out that educational institutions focus on producing research that has the main topic about the use of teaching methods/teaching techniques. Next, the main topic of the research in the institutions was about innovation/ learning media. In order to respond to learning management in the 21st century and Thailand 4.0. The most important thing that can be seen from the number of researches found is that, most teaching methods stress on which is the heart of being a Thai language teacher.