A Study of Academic Achievement of the 2nd-Year Higher Vocational Certificate Students Using Exercises to Enhance Chinese Translation Skills at Foreign Language Department, Ayutthaya Technological Commercial College

Abstract

This research studied of academic achievement of the 2nd-year higher vocational certificate students using exercises to enhance Chinese translation skills at foreign language department, Ayutthaya Technological Commercial College. The purposes of this research were 1) To develop the instruction utilizing Chinese to enhance Chinese Translation skills of the 2nd-year higher vocational certificate students. 2) To compare the result of pre-test and post-test about translation of Chinese to Thai by percentage. 3) To study satisfaction of the 2nd-year higher vocational certificate students after using enhance exercises Chinese translation skills of foreign language department, Ayutthaya Technological Commercial College. One Group pretest-posttest design and Qualitative. Research area was Ayutthaya Technological Commercial College, Ayutthaya Province. The target group is 19 students at the 2nd-year higher vocational certificate level in the foreign language department, in the second semester of the 2022 academic year at Ayutthaya Technological Commercial College. The research instruments consisted of 12 lesson plans taught by exercises to develop Chinese-Thai translation skills, pre-test and post-test, and students’ satisfaction questionnaire. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, and standard deviation.
The results of this research were found that:
1. The learning accomplishment of the students who were taught utilizing the exercises to enhance the translation abilities of Chinese into Thai was much greater than previously at the.05 level.
2. The students who were instructed through exercises to enhance their Chinese-Thai translation abilities. achievement past the 60 percent threshold with .05 level of statistical significance.
3. The students' satisfaction in learning by using the Chinese-Thai translation skill enhancement exercises was at a high level overall.