THE FACTORS RELATED TO JAPANESE TRANSLATION ABLILITY BY ONLINE LEARNING OF JAPANESE PROGRAM STUDENTS, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT SUANSUNADHA RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purposes of the research were to study the factors related to Japanese translation ability of Japanese Program Students. The sample were 121 Japanese programs students at Suansunandha Universities by purposive sampling. There were statistically significant differences in the factors related to Japanese translation ability at the level of .05. The factors were basic language skill, cultural and meaningful translation, and students’ attitude in translation in online class. Japanese online class environment can be discussed that the first factor related to the Japanese language translation skills of students of Japanese program was basic Japanese language skill, which showed correlation coefficient at 0.243. The second factor was a cultural and meaningful translation with a correlation coefficient at 0.225. And the last factor went to a Japanese online class environment at a correlation coefficient of 0.182. The findings revealed the online Japanese classroom must be designed to increase basic Japanese language skills and cultural and meaningful translation skill as well as create online materials to develop students’ translation skills.