Developing Thai Speaking Skills of Chinese Students Using Vocabulary Learning Strategies

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to develop teaching and learning management using vocabulary learning strategies. This study mainly uses the vocabulary expansion method to improve 37 freshmen in the course of Thai Language speaking in majoring in Chinese Language International Education. The researcher created a vocabulary table and lessons related to the students' daily lives to help them practice speaking Thai. A rubric scoring was used as a research tool to measure their Thai speaking skills, and it was divided into 2 parts: 1) vocabulary knowledge and 2) the ability to apply vocabulary. A total of five assessments were conducted over 12 weeks. The statistical method used to analyze the data was repeated measurement ANOVA with a covariate, using the scores of speaking skills in the previous semester as the covariate variable. The results showed that the Thai speaking skills of these Chinese students had effectively been improved according to their vocabulary knowledge development after the experiment using the vocabulary expansion strategies.