English Language Learning in the Margins: Toward a Movement to Help Service-industry Workers in Thailand

Lee, Hugo Yu-Hsiu

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“…While extrinsic motivation in higher education is more influenced by the surrounding environment such as: want to get high recognition (self-esteem), appreciation from lecturers, to get a scholarship, and automatically increase self-confidence of a student himself. Thus such students are considered to be extrinsically motivated because in order to truly study in the exam, they believe that learning will lead to high test results or to get various acknowledgments [24][25][26][27][28].…”

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Motivation and Self-Efficacy of Travel and Tourism Business Study Program Using English to Support the Graduate Competence

Harmini¹,

Ginaya²,

Widhari³

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Technology 2019 - Social Sciences Track (iCASTSS 2019)

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Tourism Department, State Polytechnic of Bali has carried out a curriculum review on the three study programs in 2007, two years up to when this study is performed. Travel and Tourism Study Program is one of the study program that its curriculum was reviewed. As a result, the study program management has decided to emphasize that English has to be mastered in order to support the core subjects and support the graduates' competence where English is widely used in the industry where they are employed. This study is aimed at investigating the effect of motivation and self-efficacy on the survival and communicative level learners and factors causing the high level of self-efficacy and its influence on their English speaking ability. This study applies descriptive qualitative research method. The data were collected through participating observation, interviews with the learners as well as literature study. The study found, so far self-efficacy gives a significant effect on learners' speaking ability at the survival and communicative level. It was also found that the four criteria in motivation and self-efficacy have significant influence, which the most dominant is the criteria of learners 'psychic and emotional state of speaking English endeavor. This study contributes empirically that instructors can update their instruction techniques by observing learners' motivation and self-efficacy through communicative activities and practices. Additionally, learners can find out learning condition during the teaching learning process in the purpose of creating a comfortable and conducive learning atmosphere.

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Motivation and Self-Efficacy of Travel and Tourism Business Study Program Using English to Support the Graduate Competence

Harmini¹,

Ginaya²,

Widhari³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Technology 2019 - Social Sciences Track (iCASTSS 2019)

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“…Over the past 30 years, a significant number of applied foreign/second language teaching/learning researchers have contributed to a growing body of applied language teaching/learning literature (e.g., Lee, 2013Lee, , 2014Lee, , 2016Lee, , 2018Kim, 2018;Cho, 2018, to name only a few). Most studies of applied foreign/second language teaching/learning primarily focus on formal and informal educational settings.…”

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Learning Chinese as the United Nations Language? Implications for Language Learning Motivation and Identity in Adult Higher Education

Lee

2019

IJHE

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In this study, the researcher strives to build on earlier work in which the roles of motivation and identity in language learning in adult higher education were examined. In the present connection, the focus falls on the roles played by a seldom researched group consisting of staff members in an intergovernmental organization. This group is comprised of United Nations staff members (N=33/18 female, 15 male) involved with the United Nations Chinese language program at the UN Headquarter for the Asia region in Bangkok. The past research has shown that an adult language learner’s learning level becomes very high when s/he is sufficiently motivated. In this light, then, the researcher explores whether the language-learning process would be improved if adult staff members from an intergovernmental organization engage in language learning with a greater sense of a professional self/institutional identity than would be the case with a merely personal identity. Also considered is whether the language-learning process is enhanced by an individual/personal identity in contrast to having only a professional self/institutional identity. The findings show that UN staff members who are highly motivated to learn Chinese are more likely to harbor a mixture of both personal and professional identities. Nevertheless, prioritizing the learning of Chinese often stems from functional and practical reasons, i.e., from instrumental motivation. Finally, this study finds no clear links between Chinese heritage and success in Chinese language learning in the adult higher educational sector.

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Effect of an m-Learning English Speaking Software App on Students in the Chiang Rai Municipality Schools 6 and 7 in Thailand

Bitter

Meylani²

2016

Int J Innov Educ Res

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Thailand is beginning to emphasize the teaching of elementary, junior and senior high students to speak English. One of the key problems has been the availability of an effective English learning program. This research study evaluated the effects of a mobile English speaking software app (Qooc o Kids English) for two schools using mobile devices in which 95% of the phones were Android, The research questions’ focus was on English speaking ability. Qooco Kids English is an online program delivered via a mobile device. The Qooco Kids English App w as used to teach children to speak English fluently by providing English audio models and frequent speaking practice with immediate actionable feedback on the English speaking of the students. Qooco Kids English has twelve instant feedback lesson modules w ith gamified, progressive lessons which result in faster and more engaging learning lessons. Through a pre post experimental design, the researchers studied the speaking ability of 192 grade 5 and grade 6 students in Chiang Rai Municipality School 6 and 89 Junior and senior high students in Chiang Rai Municipality School 7 for one semester in Thailand. Specifically, effects on students' English speaking ability after one semester were measured through the iTest pre and post tests. The significant statistic al findings indicated that the Qooco software English speaking app increases student achievement in both spoken and written English for Grades 5 and 6 as well as junior and senior high school students.

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English Language Learning in the Margins: Toward a Movement to Help Service-industry Workers in Thailand

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Motivation and Self-Efficacy of Travel and Tourism Business Study Program Using English to Support the Graduate Competence

Motivation and Self-Efficacy of Travel and Tourism Business Study Program Using English to Support the Graduate Competence

Learning Chinese as the United Nations Language? Implications for Language Learning Motivation and Identity in Adult Higher Education

Effect of an m-Learning English Speaking Software App on Students in the Chiang Rai Municipality Schools 6 and 7 in Thailand

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