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Different Backgrounds and English Learning Styles of Bangkok University Student Munsakorn, Nuttanuch
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence demographics, gender, faculty, and level of generalEnglish has on students’ learning styles. Subjects were 410 students representing Accounting, Business Administration, andEconomics faculties and studying Business English courses at Bangkok University. A Perceptual Learning Style PreferenceQuestionnaire: PLSPQ (Reid, 1987) was used for collecting data via a five point Likert scale. Data were analyzed and calculatedin percentage, mean, standard deviation and Chi-squared test at the level of 0.05.The results show that Bangkok Universitystudents do not have a specific style of learning English. The three main forms of learning English are; study in a group, learningand practicing in different situations, and listening respectively. Some results varied based on gender, faculty and levels ofacademic performance in general English variables. However, the styles of learning English did not.
Memorizing Vocabulary through Mind Mapping Technique Munsakorn, Nuttanuch
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 10 (2012): Special Issue
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This paper makes an attempt to show the effectiveness of mind mapping technique as a vocabulary storage method.The study was a one-group pretest-posttest experiment and aimed to investigate the effect of mind mapping technique onvocabularies learning of 40 Bangkok University students and explore their attitude towards the use of mind mapping technique.The instruments were the vocabulary tests, and the questionnaire exploring attitude towards mind mapping technique. Thepretest and posttest scores of the experimental group were calculated for descriptive statistics and compared using a dependentt-Test measure. It was found that students obtained higher scores for the posttest than the pretest scores at the 0.05 level ofsignificance. In addition, their attitude towards using the mind mapping technique was at a high level. Moreover, the results fromthis study supported that using mind mapping technique helped the students store a new bunch of vocabularies, and motivatedthem to learn English language.
Mental Imagery: Is It Worth the Endeavour? Munsakorn, Nuttanuch
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 11 (2012): November 2012 - Special Issue
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Based on current research and theory in various fields of study, mental imagery is believed as a specific type ofmemory aid which is most widely and effectively used. Unfortunately, in EFL language class, the learner received very littletraining in dealing with mental imagery as a mnemonic device. The point this paper wants to emphasize is that knowing theadvantages of mental imagery will assist the learners to be able to apply this memory device on their own. To understand thispoint, a one-group experiment was conducted to point out some of the advantages of using mental imagery of BangkokUniversity’s students in Thailand. It is hypothesized that the subjects will have better recall after being trained to utilize mentalimagery in vocabulary learning. The results shed important light on the fact that the imagery which helps the students to enlargeand improve vocabulary knowledge independently. These results do not only show positive results, but also introduce anadditional comment that the tools learners use to learn vocabulary should fit the situation in which the learners find themselves(Nist and Simpson, 2000).
Learners’ Satisfaction on CALL Munsakorn, Nuttanuch
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 11 (2012): November 2012 - Special Issue
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The study investigated the students’ satisfaction on CALL as classified by their gender, and computer literacy. Aquestionnaire is used for collecting data. Proportional stratified random sampling was employed to formulate a sample of 400 BUstudents. These students answered through the questionnaire which asked about their satisfaction on CALL in a form of Likert’sfive-rating scale. The data were statistically analyzed in terms of mean and standard deviation, t-test, One-Way Analysis ofVariance. The results of this study showed that the overall student’s satisfaction of Bangkok University was at very high level,and significant differences existed in student’s satisfaction on CALL of two independent variables: gender and computer literacy.The findings of this research would help the instructors to improve the process and material for language teaching with CALL.